So that is the meaning of this word “remnant.” And it is this chosen remnant that will be saved. And as you remember, they came back in three stages under Zerubbabel, under Ezra, then under Nehemiah. And there they will be for seventy years, and only after seventy years in captivity will these survivors, this remnant, be allowed to come back. And there will be a tiny remnant that will escape for their life and will be carted off through the wilderness all the way back to Babylon. And it will be the hand of God that will bring the foreign oppressors. He prophesied during the reigns of four of Israel’s kings, and he is foretelling because of the unbelief of the nation, because of their stubborn, uncircumcised hearts, because of their refusal to humble themselves beneath the mighty hand of God, that there is a catastrophe that is coming to the nation. The same will be true with the Babylonians when they will come and they will attack Jerusalem, Isaiah’s living in Jerusalem and he is a counselor to the king. And it’s the remnant that escapes the devastation of the catastrophe. And they alone will be brought back because everyone else has already been slaughtered. And it will be there that they will be so humbled, they will put their trust in the Lord. And the survivors will be those who will be taken off as slaves and captives to the Assyrian Empire. There will be the Assyrians who will come down and literally just level the nation. And Isaiah prophesies of the coming destruction of the nation. And that’s the meaning in verse 27.Īnd in the historical background, these are two Isaiah quotations, Isaiah 10 and verses 27 and 28, Isaiah 1 and verse 29, and these two Isaiah passages they go back to the eighth century B.C., in a time of national apostasy. It is after the invasion of a foreign army. And a remnant is that portion of a group of people that is left over after a catastrophic devastation. That’s what a remnant is, and that’s the word that is used here. And it may be you’re trying to patch up something in the back corner of a closet or something that is almost out of view and out of sight. And in the very back there will be like a little remnant corner, and it’s just what was left over from a previous job that couldn’t be used, and so they’ll mark it down to half price, less than half price, and you can go back there and just buy a little strip. Today you can go into a fabric store or a carpet store, and they have their best stuff in the front of the store. And that’s what the word “remnant” means. And it’s really after the whole has been used, there will be some little portion, some tiny portion that was not used to make a coat, was not used to finish carpeting a room, was not used to finish making a countertop such as with stone, and it really would appear to be of no interest to anyone, almost unusable. It’s a small leftover piece of something, maybe a piece of carpet, maybe a piece of cloth, it may be a part of a stone, but it’s a discarded piece of material, it’s a fragment that’s left over, it’s a very small part of the whole. So the key word is found in verse 27, everything is revolving around the word “remnant.” You see that in verse 27, “it is the remnant that will be saved.” So what is a remnant? A remnant is a leftover. For the Lord will execute His word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.’ And just as Isaiah foretold, ‘Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity, we would have become like Sodom and would have resembled Gomorrah.'” So, beginning in verse 27, “Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, ‘Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved. The title of this is “The Chosen Remnant,” The Chosen Remnant. So, I want us to look at verses 27 to 29 today. And this morning there are three verses that I want us to look at, and I realize I may have slowed down a little bit, but Romans 9 is just so profound that I don’t want to miss anything that’s in this chapter. We pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.Īll right, we are in Romans chapter 9, Romans chapter 9. I think of what Jesus said to Peter, “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” So Father in heaven, please make known to us with greater insight and clarity the truth of Your Word and also help us to live it that we can put it into practice. We are totally dependent upon Your Holy Spirit to guide us into all the truth. So I want to begin with a word of prayer, we’re going to dive right into this, alright?įather, as we begin this study today, we ask now that You would be our teacher, that You would illumine our understanding and likeness into Your Word.
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