No scripture requires that Matthew 24:16 isn't addressed to those in
the church who will be living in Judaea (southern Israel) when they
see the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15).
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The woman of Revelation 12 is the church, seen clothed with the
sun of righteousness (Revelation 12:1, Malachi 4:2), just as later
she's seen clothed with righteousness (Revelation 19:8), which
comes only through faith in Jesus (Romans 3:22). All those who
have faith in Jesus are part of his body, the church (Ephesians
4:4-5).
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Mark 8:35-38 does refer to some believers saving their physical lives
by renouncing Jesus and the Bible, just as Matthew 24:9-13 refers
to some believers becoming "offended" by God allowing believers to
be killed during the tribulation, so that these believers will become
apostate and even betray believers to death.
Mark 8:36 and 2 Timothy 2:12b do mean that if believers deny Jesus
and the Bible and become apostate they'll lose their salvation
(Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6).
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Hebrews 2:15 was referenced with regard to not fearing death.
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Just as Matthew 10:23 says to flee persecution, so Matthew 24:16
means to flee persecution, that persecution which will occur during
the reign of the Antichrist (Revelation 12:6, 13:7-10, 14:12-13,
20:4).
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Jesus did walk away from persecutions (Luke 4:30, John 10:39), just
as Paul left places of persecution (Acts 17:10,14), but not from
cowardice, just as the fleeing from persecution commanded of
believers in Matthew 10:23 should never be done out of cowardice.
But, at the same time, believers should never become prideful and
think that they're stronger than they really are. Jesus could
command the fleeing of persecution in Matthew 10:23 because no
believer really knows how he or she will stand up to it if he or she
sticks around long enough for it to get really nasty.
For example, a believer could be all cocky and say "I'm not going to
flee this persecution, even though I now have the chance to;
I don't care what Matthew 10:23 says! I'm going to stay put and be
strong and do exploits!" But then that believer could be captured
and tortured, and his or her proud "strength" could melt away in an
instant, so that he or she commits apostasy in order to be released
from the torture.
God never places believers into any situation which they can't
handle by his grace (1 Corinthians 10:13). But that doesn't mean
that they can willfully and proudly cast themselves down from the
pinnacle of the temple, as it were, and expect God to send his
angels to miraculously save them before they go "splat". Believers
must never test God in such a way (Matthew 4:5-7).
If believers willfully and proudly disobey Jesus' command in Matthew
10:23 and refuse to flee a persecution when they have the chance
to, they could very well find themselves in a situation which they
can't handle, and in which God won't necessarily work a miracle to
save them.
Better to be humble and flee a persecution when one has the
chance to, than to be proud and fall into apostasy when it really
gets nasty. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble
(James 4:6). Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).
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No one has said that Christians need to categorize every evil that
the internet holds as being prophecy unfolding. But evil does need
to be categorized (e.g. Galatians 5:19-21) so that believers can
know all of its myriad variations, and not be deceived by any of
them (2 Corinthians 2:11).
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It doesn't go against any scripture to say that the "small people" in
Daniel 11:23 are those numerically-small Druze and/or secret-society
Luciferians who will help the Antichrist become stronger in power
when he first comes upon the world scene; or to say that he could
be an Arab from Tyre, Lebanon (Ezekiel 28:2, cf. 2 Thessalonians
2:4) who is a Druze and a member of a worldwide secret society the
highest members of which are all gnostic Luciferians.
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It wasn't said that Elijah will come before Antichrist comes, for if
Elijah is one of the two witnesses, he could prophesy during the
same 1,260 days (Revelation 11:3) as the reign of the Antichrist
(Revelation 12:6b, 13:5). The reign of the Antichrist could legally
end (Revelation 11:15) when the time of the two witnesses ends
(Revelation 11:12).
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The posting-name "Bible2" doesn't mean "A second Holy Bible", but
rather was chosen only because the posting-names "Read the Bible"
and "Bible" were already taken. It can be read as "Bible too" (cf.
Matthew 4:4).
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Elijah being one of the two witnesses, and so a forerunner to
Christ's second coming, isn't necessarily unscriptural: Matthew
17:11 could refer to a future coming of Elijah in person, before the
second coming.
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It wasn't said that Jesus' second coming happens before the
reign of the Antichrist.
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Nothing requires that the reign of the Antichrist will come before
Elijah comes.
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The temple could be built before the 3.5-year world-reign of the
Antichrist (Revelation 13:5b,7b), for that reign could start at the
abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15), when the Antichrist will
attack an already-built temple, stop the sacrifices in front of it, and
sit in the temple and proclaim himself God (Daniel 11:31,36,
2 Thessalonians 2:4, Revelation 13:4-18).
I should never post and watch tv at the same time lol. We are pretty sure that one of the witnesses is Elijah who comes during the tribulation. The beast kills them and they rise at 3.5 days. That's intersting to me that the tribulation is 3.5 years long, and the two witnesses rise after 3.5 days 
Weird.
