The Gospel of Christ
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Paul did call the church the body elect but Israel is also elect..........you have to look at surrounding text for the best identification
Now you’re admitting that the Church is “the elect”?
Great — we’re finally getting somewhere.
Because in Matthew 24, Jesus says:
“Immediately after the tribulation… He shall gather together His elect…”
— Matthew 24:29–31
You just admitted the Church is called the elect.
But now you're playing word games — arguing it’s a different elect in this context, because your Scofield system can’t handle the plain meaning of the text.
Here’s the problem:
The only way this isn’t referring to the Church is if Jesus was being deliberately vague — hiding the truth and confusing future believers with misleading language.
That’s not interpretation.
That’s evasion.
Jesus didn’t say, “He will gather ethnic Israel.”
He said, “His elect.”
Paul uses the exact same word — eklektos — for believers in Christ (Romans 8:33, Colossians 3:12, Titus 1:1).
Not just once, but over and over again.
You don’t get to claim “elect” means Christians in Paul’s letters but “Jews only” in prophecy —
unless your theology requires Christ and Paul to contradict each other.
Which is exactly what blasphemous Scofieldism does:
It splits the Body of Christ in half, pits the Gospels against the Epistles, and rewrites God’s covenant around ethnic favoritism instead of faith in Christ.
That’s not theology.
That’s heresy in a leather-bound study Bible.
And it’s led millions to believe that the direct words of Jesus Christ — don’t apply to them.
Which is nothing short of spiritual insanity.
Now if you're still claiming “we have to look at the surrounding text for context” — great. Let’s do that:
Jesus is talking to His own disciples.
He warns them of deception, tribulation, and the need for endurance.
He says, “When YOU see…” — not “when they see…”
And He concludes with, “He will gather His elect.”
There is nothing in the surrounding text that says “Jews only.”
There is nothing that says “the Church is already gone.”
That’s not coming from Scripture.
That’s coming from Scofield’s margins.
The elect are those in Christ.
And Jesus says they are gathered after the tribulation — not before, not secretly, and not by race or nationality.
So again, let’s be clear:
Either you believe Jesus Christ, the Son of God —
or you believe a manmade prophecy chart cooked up by Scofield, Darby, and their Zionist backers in the 1800s.
Choose your foundation:
The words of Jesus… or the footnotes of a convicted con man.