“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”
Romans 11:1-5 KJV
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 12:17 KJV
There is one Remnant—and They are also called Israel—the people of God. God’s people Israel, God’s Remnant have His Holy Spirit in them, and therefore, they have the mind of Christ. His love is in them. These keep all His commandments including keeping God’s holy Sabbath holy (the seventh day, now known as Saturday).
But there are also tares within the Remnant (Israel) right now. The wheat and tares are together in the churches (the people of God and the professed of God). Many of Israel or the Remnant are in Babylon right now, God is and has been for a long while calling them out of Babylon and back to Himself into His Remnant. In the very end, there will stand the remnant from the Remnant.
There are they in the Remnant now that are not going to remain—and some will continue to profess that they are God’s Remnant but their hypocrisy will be revealed.
“Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:”
Romans 9:27 KJV
God’s Remnant even right now are these:“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
Revelation 14:12 KJV.
“Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.”
Jeremiah 23:1, 3 KJV
These people are known by their name, people of the Book—these are a small number compared to the masses that profess to be God’s. They are attacked because of the love of God He puts in their heart (mind), because of their name, because by faith and the Holy Spirit they keep all God’s Ten Commandment law, because they (the true) know Who they belong to, they know Who they serve; they know the truth because the Truth abides in them because they first by faith abide in Him. This church (people of the One True God) of God live by faith by every word that procedeeth out of the mouth of God not by their might but by the Power of God He put within them. This people of God live the gospel of Jesus Christ because they have the righteousness of Jesus Christ within them. These are the just that live by faith.
Because God is their life, because they give up their very existence to God, seek God to govern and to rule them, to inhabit them living in, through and for them—they are hated of men, persecuted for righteousness sake; they are called fanatics, even called devils. They are ridiculed, slandered, tortured, envied, even killed. God says they are blessed. God has blessed them. When Jesus lived in this earth, many did not receive Him, called Him the devil, lied on Him, persecuted Him, tortured Him, sought to kill Him.
You may be one of those persecuting the Remnant right now being in the world, being in Babylon, and they in her under the law, “and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 17:5-7 KJV. God is calling you out “Come out of her my people”.
God is calling His people to be in His Remnant. God says He has many not of this fold, they will come out of Babylon, out of the woman from which they’ve been drunken. Sadly, many of the Remnant of Israel shall leave Him, leave His true church (His true people Israel or His Remnant) because they had itching ears, they backslid thinking they could come back, or they think they have time and will come into God’s Remnant later—but they shall never return.
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”
Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
Hebrews 10:26 KJV
Are you daily preparing, getting ready that you be ready and in this remnant from the Remnant?
Oh we best be. There is no excuse. Probation will soon close upon the living. The dead, their probation closed when they died—their case was already decided. Jesus Christ comes with His reward:
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Revelation 22:12 KJV
“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
John 5:26-30 KJV
Whether in the grave and resurrected in that day, or whether the living—there is the remnant from the Remnant that are the recipients of God’s reward of eternal life. There is only one church (body of Christ, people of God) that keep all the commandments of God, they have the testimony of Jesus, they have the faith of Jesus.
How we are walking now determines our end and reward.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” Romans 11:5 KJV