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The Remnant

Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth. And as Isaiah said before, unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah . 1 In the Bible a remnant is a small remaining quantity of people God has set aside for a purpose. These were chosen by God, usually seen as the least of these among us, but many times God assigns high value to these people. God can not work with pride, he hates pride. 3 So he uses the weak things of the world, the base things of the world and the things which are despised, God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.  God has people set aside for holy purposes, these He labels as remnants. Pride goes...