Matt 24:22 physical salvation?

In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

It sounds like physical salvation from a desolation so terrible that if God doesn't cut it short, even the elect wouldn't survive. Nobody, no human being would be saved.

Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

But we know it isn't.

Matthew 24:25
See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.

Not possible but I'm going to warn you anyway.

These guys see it as local and perhaps physical.

Ellicott's Commentary;
(22) Should no flesh be saved.--The words are of course limited by the context to the scene of the events to which the prophecy refers. The warfare with foes outside the city, and the faction-fights and massacres within, would have caused an utter depopulation of the whole country.

For the elect's sake.--Those who, as believers in Jesus, were the "remnant" of the visible Israel, and therefore the true Israel of God.

Pulpit Commentary;
There should no flesh be saved; i.e. the whole Jewish nation would have been annihilated.

Gill's Exposition;
there should no flesh be saved; not one Jew in the city of Jerusalem would have been saved; they must everyone have perished by famine, or pestilence, or sword, or by the intestine wars and murders among themselves: nor indeed, if the siege had continued, would it have fared better with the inhabitants of the other parts of the country, among whom also many of the same calamities prevailed and spread themselves; so that, in all likelihood, if these days had been continued a little longer, there had not been a Jew left in all the land.

But for the elect's sake; those who were chosen in Christ, before the foundation of the world, to believe in him, and to be saved by him with an everlasting salvation; both those that were in the city, or, at least, who were to spring from some that were there, as their immediate offspring, or in future ages, and therefore they, and their posterity, must not be cut off; and also those chosen ones, and real believers, who were at Pella, and in the mountains, and other places, for the sake of these, and that they might be delivered from these pressing calamities,

This is interesting... thanks Art.