Definition: Remnant
– that which
remains, or is
set apart. A
distinct part of
a larger whole.
In these
last days, I
believe God is
still doing a
work that will
impact the
world. I believe
He is calling
out a Holy
Remnant Church,
dedicated to
Jesus Christ and
focused on doing
His work during
these last days.
I believe God is
raising up a
church that is
committed to Him
and His cause
who are a holy
remnant, a group
of people who
are steadfast
and sure of
their God.
The Remnant
Church I’m
speaking of has
no relationship
to replacement
theology, nor to
the Adventist
remnant
theology, nor to
the theology of
the modern day
Judaizers who
claim to be
Christians yet
require
adherence to Old
Testament Jewish
laws. The
Remnant Church
is at the core
of the True
Church... the
Body of Christ,
the Bride of
Christ set apart
from the
apostate
churches that
dominate the
world today.
Today, many
are witnessing,
and are becoming
a part of an
interesting
phenomenon,
where folks are
leaving the
structure and
security of
“traditional”
organized
churches,
denominations
and memberships,
to follow hard
after God. This
extraordinary
migration is
little
understood by
establishment
Christianity.
Perhaps
the Lord Jesus
Christ is
calling His
Remnant Church
to Himself at
the end of this
age to worship
and teach in
simplicity and
doctrinal
purity. Perhaps
the desire to be
obedient to the
Word and to
understand Bible
Prophecy and to
fulfill the
great commission
and the great
commandment has
birthed an early
church
understanding of
what it truly
means to follow
Christ. Perhaps
God is preparing
a people to
stand and hold
forth truth in a
world where
people and
“churches” are
consumed with
materialism,
prosperity, self
centered
pursuits and
desires, and
tolerance for
those things
that are
unbiblical.
Perhaps a time
of final testing
for the true
church and
Israel is upon
us, a time for
the Remnant
Church to
“Stand” for
Christ. Whatever
the ultimate
reason, folks
are coming out,
and almost
immediately they
understand the
need to adapt to
this new and
extraordinary
environment
where the
Sufficiency of
Christ is
taught, that
Christ alone is
indeed all they
need.
Today, the
mainstream
churches have
turned away from
the gospel and
are full of
wickedness; they
have embraced
the world and
humanistic
ideals. In what
were the houses
of God, there is
no power or
spiritual
authority, and
in fact, there
is no presence
of the Lord at
all. But I
believe there is
a remnant of
people, a
Remnant Church,
comprised of
those who are
diligently
seeking to
understand the
scriptures, all
of God’s Word.
The
Remnant Church
is that part of
the Body of
Jesus Christ
that knows they
are sons of God,
and that are
hearing from and
following the
leading of His
Holy Spirit.
Within the
Remnant Church
there is coming
a deeper
intimacy with
Christ, and
while fewer may
be called to the
Remnant Church,
Grace yet
abounds in the
lives of those
who hunger after
God’s Word and
in this day
especially, for
His Prophetic
teaching. The
Remnant Church
will diligently
study the Word
as did the
Berean’s, and
walk in full
authority of the
Word as Jesus
requires of us.
We must realize
all things are
possible through
Him and we have
nothing to offer
the world other
than Christ.
The Remnant
Church works in
total humility
and subjection
to the Word of
God so that God
receives all the
glory. Only as
we grow in the
Holy Spirit,
will the love of
God be manifest
for all to see.
Men will no
longer see us,
but see the
Spirit of God’s
power manifest
in our lives, in
His Remnant
Church. I
believe the
Remnant Church
is made up of a
small proportion
of God’s people
at the end of
time that is
clinging to the
unadulterated
Gospel, Faith
and Doctrines of
the early
Christian
Church. The
Remnant Church
is comprised of
people who have
not allowed
pagan ideas,
humanistic
ideas, other
religions or
idols to have
been introduced
into their
beliefs or
worship as it
has in many
mainstream
churches.
The Remnant
Church will
stand on the
Word of God
alone. This
Remnant Church
is made up of
people who are
shutting out the
things of this
world and
turning to the
things of God.
They are hearing
the Word of God,
listening to the
Holy Spirit,
understanding
Bible Prophecy,
and
understanding
the need to tell
the rest of the
world that
judgment is
about to fall on
their wicked
godless world.
The
Remnant Church
has a model in
our Lord Jesus;
we are to be a
people that will
die to self to
bring life to
others. Death to
self for Gods
purpose is what
will glorify
Him. To be a
part of the
Remnant Church
is to travel a
lonely road, and
few will be
prepared to make
the journey.
The Remnant
Church will look
like the
original Church
of Acts where
faith was still
pure and people
followed Christ
no matter what
the cost, where
a handful of
believers
through faith in
Christ turned
the world upside
down, where
following the
teachings of the
Holy Spirit
caused the
Gospel of Jesus
Christ to reach
the known world.
The Remnant
Church will look
like the early
church in Acts
in that it will
be made up of
believers
willing to
sacrifice
everything for
the cause of
Christ, and will
support each
other as family.
Persecution will
definitely
follow the rise
of the Remnant
Church just as
it did the early
church. Paul
wrote of this to
Timothy in 2
Timothy 3:12
“Yea, and all
that will live
godly in Christ
Jesus shall
suffer
persecution.”
And again to the
church at
Philippi in
Philippians
1:29 “For
unto you it is
given in the
behalf of
Christ, not only
to believe on
him, but also to
suffer for his
sake.”
Those that
are satisfied
with
denominational
churches and the
seeker friendly
and prosperity
gospel emanating
from the
comfortable
social club
churches will
certainly not
understand nor
agree with the
teaching of the
Remnant Church
for it is the
message of the
narrow way, of
Christ as the
only way (John
14:6
“Jesus saith
unto him, I am
the way, the
truth, and the
life: no man
cometh unto the
Father, but by
me.”) it is
Jesus plus
Nothing; but the
Remnant Church
must expect
persecution from
these and be
prepared to
preach the
Gospel of
repentance as
the apostles
Paul and John
did to warn of
the coming
Messiah.
I believe
the message of
the Remnant
Church will
astonish many,
because it is
not the
prominent or
well known
message of
today, but is
the message of
the New
Testament
church, the
message the
Gospel of Jesus
Christ, of the
Messiah who came
and is coming
again. It is a
message to this
generation to
repent of the
wickedness of
their self
absorbed lives,
to turn away
from the things
which have
become idols in
their lives. It
is a message to
understand the
demonic
influences in
this present
generation, to
understand that
Satan is the god
of this world
and that their
only hope is in
Jesus Christ,
Messiah, King of
Kings, Lord of
Lords, very God.
It is a message
that tells of a
personal
relationship
with the Christ
who paid the sin
debt of all men
at Calvary, a
personal
relationship
which
establishes
eternal life in
the presence of
God, a personal
relationship
which allows one
to understand
the written word
of God, and a
personal
relationship
which causes us
to understand
that Jesus is
coming soon for
His bride… His
Church.
We are now
living in the
times of which
the apostle Paul
warned Timothy,
those latter
times wherein
the mainstream
churches are
doing exactly
what Paul warned
they would do.
Even some
churches, who
believe they are
following
Christ, yet have
become modern
day Judaizers.
1Timothy
4:1-5
“Now the Spirit
speaketh
expressly, that
in the latter
times some shall
depart from the
faith, giving
heed to seducing
spirits, and
doctrines of
devils; Speaking
lies in
hypocrisy;
having their
conscience
seared with a
hot iron;
Forbidding to
marry, and
commanding to
abstain from
meats, which God
hath created to
be received with
thanksgiving of
them which
believe and know
the truth. For
every creature
of God is good,
and nothing to
be refused, if
it be received
with
thanksgiving:
For it is
sanctified by
the word of God
and prayer.”
The
Scripture tells
us, that the
last days, are
"perilous times"
for the people
of God, and are
marked by the
ungodly living
of some of those
who call
themselves
Christians. 2
Tim. 3:1-5
"This know
also, that in
the last days
perilous times
shall come. For
men shall be
lovers of their
own selves,
covetous,
boasters, proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to
parents,
unthankful,
unholy, Without
natural
affection,
trucebreakers,
false accusers,
incontinent,
fierce,
despisers of
those that are
good, Traitors,
heady,
high-minded,
lovers of
pleasures more
than lovers of
God; Having a
form of
godliness, but
denying the
power thereof:
from such turn
away."
The
mainstream and
denominational
churches, the
seeker friendly,
emergent, and
prosperity
churches are far
from what God
envisioned them
to be. Entire
denominations
and religious
movements today
operate without
the Holy Spirit.
They are
spiritually
bankrupt without
the presence of
Jesus, showing
no evidence of
spiritual gifts
or fruit. They
practice a form
of godliness
devoid of power
or conviction
which gives no
hope of eternal
salvation. They
are comfortable
with the world
and are more
social and
political than
spiritual. They
appease sin,
teach spiritual
tolerance and
diversity, and
deny the
authority of the
Bible, while
casting away all
teaching about
repentance,
heaven, hell,
and judgment.
They have
abandoned
Biblical
Prophecy for
modern relevancy
and Replacement
Theology
believing all
prophecy is
already
fulfilled or
that it is all
allegory or at
very worst that
God has
abandoned His
covenant
relationship and
promises to His
chosen people
Israel. By
making any or
all of these
unbiblical
claims they
prove their own
ignorance of
scripture and
prophetic truth.
They prove the
very prophecy
they deny.
Their
ignorance is
confirmed and
prophesied in
the writings of
the prophet
Daniel. First he
is told to
“shut up the
words, and seal
the book, even
to the time of
the end:”.
Daniel 12:4
and then He is
told “Go thy
way, Daniel: for
the words are
closed up and
sealed till the
time of the end.
Many shall be
purified, and
made white, and
tried; but the
wicked shall do
wickedly: and
none of the
wicked shall
understand;
but the wise
shall understand”.
Daniel
12:9-10
I believe
the Holy Spirit
is revealing
these things
today to men and
women of
spiritual
discernment who
are diligently
studying God’s
Word. Our
Savior, Jesus
Christ promised
this to His
followers as
recorded in
John 16:12-14
“I have yet
many things to
say unto you,
but ye cannot
bear them now.
Howbeit when
he, the Spirit
of truth, is
come, he will
guide you into
all truth:
for he shall not
speak of
himself; but
whatsoever he
shall hear, that
shall he speak:
and he will
shew you things
to come. He
shall glorify
me: for he shall
receive of mine,
and shall shew
it unto you”.
The Spirit of
truth is the
Holy Spirit of
Jesus Christ who
is opening the
eyes of
prophetic
understanding in
these last days.
The
apostle Paul
wrote of this
very thing in 1
Corinthians.
While the
“natural man” or
unsaved man
finds the
scripture
foolishness, the
Spirit filled
man understands
prophecy because
having the Holy
Spirit he has
the “mind of
Christ”. “But
as it is
written, Eye
hath not seen,
nor ear heard,
neither have
entered into the
heart of man,
the things which
God hath
prepared for
them that love
him. But God
hath revealed
them unto us by
his Spirit:
for the Spirit
searcheth all
things, yea, the
deep things of
God. For what
man knoweth the
things of a man,
save the spirit
of man which is
in him? Even so
the things of
God knoweth no
man, but the
Spirit of God.
Now we have
received, not
the spirit of
the world, but
the spirit which
is of God; that
we might know
the things that
are freely given
to us of God.
Which things
also we speak,
not in the words
which man's
wisdom teacheth,
but which the
Holy Ghost
teacheth;
comparing
spiritual things
with spiritual.
But the natural
man receiveth
not the things
of the Spirit of
God: for they
are foolishness
unto him:
neither can he
know them,
because they are
spiritually
discerned. But
he that is
spiritual
judgeth all
things, yet
he himself is
judged of no
man. For who
hath known the
mind of the
Lord, that he
may instruct
him? but we
have the mind of
Christ”.
1 Corinthians
2:9-16
In 2 Timothy
the Holy Spirit
has given
further
instruction for
those who would
be faithful to
Him in the midst
of the
corruption of
those who
profess to know
Christ yet deny
His Word and its
teaching. The
true Christian
is to separate
himself from
those who
dishonor the
holy name of the
Lord, to “Study
to shew thyself
approved unto
God, a
workman that
needeth not to
be ashamed,
rightly dividing
the word of
truth.”
2 Tim. 2:15
and we are told
to “follow
righteousness,
faith, charity,
peace, with them
that call on the
Lord out of a
pure heart."
2 Tim. 2: 21,
22
This is the call
to the Remnant
Church, to
rightly divide
the Word, follow
righteousness,
to stand for
Christ.
1
Corinthians
16:13&14
“Watch ye,
stand fast
in the faith,
quit you like
men, be strong.
Let all your
things be done
with charity.”
Galatians
5:1 “Stand
fast
therefore in the
liberty
wherewith Christ
hath made us
free, and be not
entangled again
with the yoke of
bondage.”
Ephesians
6:10-18
“Finally, my
brethren, be
strong in the
Lord, and in the
power of his
might. Put on
the whole armor
of God, that ye
may be able to
stand
against the
wiles of the
devil. For we
wrestle not
against flesh
and blood, but
against
principalities,
against powers,
against the
rulers of the
darkness of this
world, against
spiritual
wickedness in
high places.
Wherefore take
unto you the
whole armor of
God, that ye may
be able to
withstand in
the evil day,
and having done
all, to stand.
Stand
therefore,
having your
loins girt about
with truth, and
having on the
breastplate of
righteousness;
And your feet
shod with the
preparation of
the gospel of
peace; Above
all, taking the
shield of faith,
wherewith ye
shall be able to
quench all the
fiery darts of
the wicked. And
take the helmet
of salvation,
and the sword of
the Spirit,
which is the
word of God:
Praying always
with all prayer
and supplication
in the Spirit,
and watching
thereunto with
all perseverance
and supplication
for all saints;”
Philippians
1:27-29
“Only let your
conversation be
as it becometh
the gospel of
Christ: that
whether I come
and see you, or
else be absent,
I may hear of
your affairs,
that ye stand
fast in one
spirit, with one
mind striving
together for the
faith of the
gospel; And in
nothing
terrified by
your
adversaries:
which is to them
an evident token
of perdition,
but to you of
salvation, and
that of God. For
unto you it is
given in the
behalf of
Christ, not only
to believe on
him, but also to
suffer for his
sake;”
Philippians
3:18-4:1
“For many walk,
of whom I have
told you often,
and now tell you
even weeping,
that they are
the enemies of
the cross of
Christ: Whose
end is
destruction,
whose God is
their belly, and
whose glory is
in their shame,
who mind earthly
things. For our
conversation is
in heaven; from
whence also we
look for the
Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ:
Who shall change
our vile body,
that it may be
fashioned like
unto his
glorious body,
according to the
working whereby
he is able even
to subdue all
things unto
himself.
Therefore, my
brethren dearly
beloved and
longed for, my
joy and crown,
so stand fast
in the Lord, my
dearly beloved.”
2
Thessalonians
2:15
“Therefore,
brethren,
stand fast,
and hold the
traditions which
ye have been
taught, whether
by word, or our
epistle.”
I
believe that
even now the
Lord is
preparing His
Remnant Church,
an army of
believers after
His own heart, a
church that has
turned away from
the deadness and
sin of the
modern church. I
believe we are
called to be a
part of this
Remnant Church,
and I believe we
are being called
out for these
last days, and I
believe this
church can be on
fire for the
Lord, and it can
rock the very
foundations of
hell. No power
on earth will be
able to ignore
the Spiritual
authority of
this Remnant
Church, and
Satan will not
be able to stand
against it!
AMEN!
Even So Come!