Mortal Remnant.

The Remnant.  The remaining of the true. What is leftover. When you get a remnant piece of carpet it is a small piece of carpet leftover from the larger. To have a remnant left is to have a small bit left. God has a remnant, a small group of people that are still His out of what was once a larger group.  

Yes, at one time, Elijah, one of God's chosen prophets thought he alone remained of God's people. God told him otherwise. 

God will have a remnant group of people, so even if you feel as if you are standing alone in the truth that has been revealed to you, know that you are not alone. You may not be grouped with the others who belong to God. You may not have a partner or a whole bunch of others that believe the truth as it is revealed to you, that does not mean there are not others out there. 

We don’t know the path we are to follow. It may be a solitary path especially towards the end of days because so few will be that find that narrow path. The question is raised…

Luk 18:8…Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 

Those are Jesus' words. 

Mat_7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

These too are Jesus' words.

We know Jesus will find faith on earth because of this…

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 

1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

Not all will sleep death's sleep.

All will be changed.

The mortal - still living- will put on immortality.

The dead (corruptible) - will put on incorruption- restored to everlasting incorruptible life. 

The mortal- right now- these are all the remnant, mortals who belong to God.

If we remain living we will be the remnant left when Christ returns and we will be given immortality- never to taste death.

God has a remnant, He does. May we be among the remnant by the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever! Amen!

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The Remnant. 

In the illustration from Elijah's time, we learn something further about the matter of acceptance and rejection. It seemed then as though all Israel had departed from the Lord, but there were seven thousand men who had not acknowledged Baal. "Even so at this present moment there is a remnant according to the election of grace." The grace of God appears to all men, and is extended to all. Those who accept the grace are the elect, no matter of what tribe or nation they are. Although the plan of salvation embraces all the world, it is a sad fact that but few of any people or generation will accept it. "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved."

The Olive Tree. While there are single expressions in the eleventh chapter of Romans that are difficult to understand, the chapter as a whole is very simple. Under the figure of an olive tree, the people of God are represented, and by the figure of grafting, the relation of all men to God is shown. Before going into the particulars of this illustration, we must for a moment consider the Commonwealth of Israel.

In the second chapter of Ephesians we learn that as Gentiles, the Ephesians had been "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel," "having no hope, and without God in the world." That is, those who are not of the commonwealth of Israel are without God; or, those who are without God are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel.

Now Christ is the only manifestation of God to man, and "he came unto his own, and his own received him not."  John 1:11. Therefore the mass of the Jewish nation were without God, just as surely as the heathen were, and consequently were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. 

The same chapter of Ephesians tells us that Christ came to reconcile both Jews and Gentiles unto God, showing that both were separate from him. Still further in the same chapter we learn that the commonwealth of Israel is the "household of God," and is composed of saints,  those who are reconciled to God. Only such are not "strangers and foreigners" from Israel.

The Origin of Israel. The name originated that night when Jacob wrestled with the Lord, and finally by his faith obtained the blessing that he sought. He could not gain anything whatever by his physical strength; indeed,  one touch by the Lord was sufficient to make him utterly helpless; but it was when, in his utter helplessness, he cast himself in simple faith on the Lord, that he gained the victory, and was named Israel prince of God. This title was applied to all his descendants, although it strictly belonged only to those who had living faith in God, just as we use the term "Christian" of those who are in "the church," with no thought of asserting that they really know the Lord.