The Elect
Who are the Elect who are living when Jesus returns?
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
The 144, 000 are the elect on earth. The first of the three angel messengers of Revelation 14, Berengaud applies to Christ and His apostles and preachers before the beginning of the judgment. The second angel refers in a special way, he adds, to the doctors of the church who direct the church during the time of the last persecution. Babylon is here taken to be the “city” of the devil, that is, of all the wicked. Under the third angel Berengaud understands the true and upright preachers during the times of Antichrist, who will not bow before him. The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom) https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/956.3746?hl=144%2C000&ss=eyJ0b3RhbCI6NiwicGFyYW1zIjp7InF1ZXJ5IjoiMTQ0LDAwMCIsInR5cGUiOiJiYXNpYyIsImxhbmciOiJlbiIsImxpbWl0IjoyMH0sImluZGV4Ijo1fQ%3D%3D#3769