Q:  Jesus said, “But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.” Doesn’t that mean that not everyone will be saved?

A: The answer to this question is so easy and obvious, once it is explained that many will wonder how they stumbled right past it and never saw it.

What needs to be understood, is that Jesus’ was not saying that making it through the great tribulation earns the survivor his salvation. That would be obtaining salvation by merit or works. Salvation NEVER comes by merit or works.

The answer is found in Romans 11:26:

“And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:”  

The meaning is very clear; those who survive the great tribulation will enjoy salvation simply because, that is the time at which Jesus shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob! Do you see that?

Nobody gets saved because they somehow survived the great tribulation; they get saved simply because after the great tribulation happens to be the time when Jesus shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob and save all Israel.

Another thing that needs to be realized is where those who endure to the end go after receiving eonian life. These get to be in the Kingdom of Heaven, established on the earth. They do not go to heaven as do those who are enlightened to Paul’s evangel.  Those who were of the Circumcision evangel have Jerusalem and the earth as their place for the remaining eons; while we of Paul’s evangel have heaven as our place for the remaining eons.  

 I continue to remind the reader, however; that what was written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, Jude and the book of the Hebrews, were not written to, or for us. Only what Paul wrote the evangel given him by Christ is to and for us.