The Remnant Church
The Remnant church is a doctrine that teaches that God will raise up a remnant of people who will stay faithful until the end, enduring trials, tribulations, and even the great apostasy that will happen before the Antichrist is ushered unto the stage of world events. Because Scripture supports Scripture, we can understand God's plans for this future small and left over group of people and how He will accomplish His will through the least of humankind. When we take a look at the Bible in it's entirety, we can glean much from history and apply it not only to the events of today, but also to the events of tomorrow. God's Word explains that He is the same yesterday and today, and that there is nothing new under the sun. God foretold of the times that we live in and He has told us of what is to come. And, throughout the ages, He has used only a remnant of people to accomplish all of His mighty plans. A remnant is defined as something that is leftover, a piece of scrap material, good for nothing but waste. But, with our God, the opposite becomes the truth, as working with the things that the world dismisses is the Almighty's way of displaying power and bringing glory to Himself.
In the book of beginnings, the book of Genesis, we see that God uses the smallest of portions to keep a faithful people who love Him, dwelling upon the earth. We are told that among the many men of earth, only Noah found favor with God. And, because mankind had become so corrupt, God destroyed the earth with the great flood, reserving Noah and his family to repopulate the earth. And this pattern of saving for Himself remnants continues throughout the Old Testament. The book of Isaiah tells us that because the Israelites were a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, and corrupt children, their God was provoked to anger. God's judgement reigned hard on this chosen nation. "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers" (Isaiah 1:7). But, amidst the destruction and chaos, there remained a small party of left-overs; a people reserved to carry on the Name of our Lord. "Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." (Isaiah 1:9) From the days before Christ, God demonstrated through the people of Israel that there would one day be the remnant church. For other topics such as end times signs, the apostate Church and false teachers, visit our Bible resources.
In the New Testament, the apostle Paul gives the church in Corinthians an explanation of why the Lord uses the small and the weak to bring forth His plans for the nations. "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence" (1 Corinthians 1:27-29). The remnant church will be a selection of those who have been set aside by God to accomplish the godly mission of the last days. "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace" (Romans 11:5).
In explaining to the church in Thessalonica the coming of the Lord Jesus, Paul told the readers that before Christ would come that there would be a falling away first. "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (2 Thessalonians 2:3). And we read in Revelation that out of the seven churches that Christ addresses, all but one receives a rebuke from the Lord. A remnant; the remnant church who had little strength, but kept our Lord's Word. While there is no specific denomination listed among those seven churches that the Lord addresses, we do know that as the end of time draws nearer, false gospels and teachings are cropping up everywhere. We can learn from the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and from those who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write the Holy Scriptures that we are to be watchful, ever testing spiritual teachings by the Word of God. Our responsibility is to prove the doctrines taught by examining the Scriptures. We must not be caught unaware or unprepared. The remnant church is made up of all those who worship Christ in spirit and in truth. To discover more about God's working in remnants, take the quiz linked above.
In the book of beginnings, the book of Genesis, we see that God uses the smallest of portions to keep a faithful people who love Him, dwelling upon the earth. We are told that among the many men of earth, only Noah found favor with God. And, because mankind had become so corrupt, God destroyed the earth with the great flood, reserving Noah and his family to repopulate the earth. And this pattern of saving for Himself remnants continues throughout the Old Testament. The book of Isaiah tells us that because the Israelites were a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, and corrupt children, their God was provoked to anger. God's judgement reigned hard on this chosen nation. "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers" (Isaiah 1:7). But, amidst the destruction and chaos, there remained a small party of left-overs; a people reserved to carry on the Name of our Lord. "Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." (Isaiah 1:9) From the days before Christ, God demonstrated through the people of Israel that there would one day be the remnant church. For other topics such as end times signs, the apostate Church and false teachers, visit our Bible resources.
In the New Testament, the apostle Paul gives the church in Corinthians an explanation of why the Lord uses the small and the weak to bring forth His plans for the nations. "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence" (1 Corinthians 1:27-29). The remnant church will be a selection of those who have been set aside by God to accomplish the godly mission of the last days. "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace" (Romans 11:5).
In explaining to the church in Thessalonica the coming of the Lord Jesus, Paul told the readers that before Christ would come that there would be a falling away first. "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (2 Thessalonians 2:3). And we read in Revelation that out of the seven churches that Christ addresses, all but one receives a rebuke from the Lord. A remnant; the remnant church who had little strength, but kept our Lord's Word. While there is no specific denomination listed among those seven churches that the Lord addresses, we do know that as the end of time draws nearer, false gospels and teachings are cropping up everywhere. We can learn from the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and from those who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write the Holy Scriptures that we are to be watchful, ever testing spiritual teachings by the Word of God. Our responsibility is to prove the doctrines taught by examining the Scriptures. We must not be caught unaware or unprepared. The remnant church is made up of all those who worship Christ in spirit and in truth. To discover more about God's working in remnants, take the quiz linked above.
The Remnant Church
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