MARK 13:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.”
If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them — the shortening of the days for the sake of the elect is the divine mercy within the judgment. The elect are those who belong to God — the remnant within the general population who would be destroyed by the full unshortened judgment. The shortening communicates divine control: the distress is not out of God's hands but under his sovereign management.
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