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Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n God chooses who will be saved from spiritual death just as He chooses who will be saved from physical death.<\/p>\n The word translated \u201ccries out<\/span>\u201d is the Greek verb kradz\u014d<\/em><\/span>, meaning \u201cto screech\u201d like a raven. It represents a loud impassioned scream or shriek used to get people\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n Paul now quotes another of the prophets to show that God is sovereign regarding who receives salvation. In this case he clearly shows that not all of Israel will be saved. The quotation is from Isaiah 10:22<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will return; the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\n Much of Biblical prophecy has an application to events occurring at the time the prophecy is given as well as a future application, especially to events of the end times. The prophecy of Isaiah here quoted applied to the preservation of a remnant of Israel from the destruction and desolation that was coming upon them by the Assyrian King Sennacherib and his army. In its future application, however, it is commonly understood by Jews as looking to the end times. It declares that God will abandon to ruin a great many of the seed of Abraham, and yet maintain his word of promise to Abraham through a chosen few, a remnant, who will be saved.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at that promise God gave to Abraham. In Genesis 22<\/strong><\/span> Abraham proved he was willing to be obedient to God by sacrificing his only son, Isaac. Though God stopped him before the actual killing, He also proceeded to promise Abraham the following:<\/p>\n Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only<\/span> son <\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/em> blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is<\/em> on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. <\/span> (Genesis 22:15-17<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n Abraham did not live to see God\u2019s promise fulfilled, but he believed it nonetheless. Eventually, the number of descendants of Abraham became too many to be counted as promised. But Isaiah clearly states that even though the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob became as the sand of the sea, only a remnant, a portion of them, would be saved from destruction. This is a clear example of God choosing some of the Jews and rejecting many others.<\/p>\n If God chooses some Jews to be saved and allows others to be destroyed, it is just as valid that He chooses some of the Gentiles to be saved while the rest will be recipients of His wrath in the Lake of Fire.<\/p>\n Application<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Those who were saved from destruction by Sennacherib did not choose to be saved any more than those who died refused to be saved. God did the choosing then just as He does now.<\/p>\n In God\u2019s service, for His glory,<\/strong><\/p>\nTruth to Learn<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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