The last book of the Bible speaks of a group of people who will follow God to the very end. He identifies them as the \u201cremnant\u201d that \u201ckeep the commandments of God\u201d (Revelation 12:17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it an arrogant claim? How about another question\u2014the remnant of what? Revelation\u2019s first eleven chapters don\u2019t mention \u201cthe commandments of God.\u201d So where does this commandment-keeping remnant come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In John\u2019s gospel Jesus directed His disciples to \u201ckeep His commandments\u201d if we \u201clove Him\u201d (John 14:15). Elsewhere John explains that we \u201clove Him because He first loved us\u201d (1 John 4:19). If we place these verses in order it looks something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God will have an end-time people who will keep His commandments<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because they love Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because Jesus first loved them\u2014Allelullia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you see the pattern? Commandment keeping is the fruit of the remnant church not<\/em> the root. The love of God motivates them. That\u2019s why Jesus said, \u201cBy this shall all men know that you are My disciples if you love one another\u201d (John 13:35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy this shall all men know that you are My disciples if you love one another\u201d (John 13:35).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Revelation 12 brings us the same picture if we look more closely. We are the remnant of the seed of the woman pictured first in Revelation 12:1. Prophetically a woman represents a church (2 Corinthians 11:2). Likewise, her apparel reveals the kind of woman she is. This woman is clothed with the sun, which represents the righteousness of Jesus Christ (Malachi 4:2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Righteousness is right-doing or doing what is right. Okay, now none of us have any right-doing to bring to God. That is why the woman, God\u2019s church, is clothed with a special garment. It is Christ\u2019s righteousness given to us as a gift (Romans 6:23). Knowing that we have all sinned and continue to come short of Gods\u2019 glory, Jesus came to this world as a man and lived a perfect sinless life (Romans 3:23; 5:6-10). He then topped that off by taking our sin and guilt upon Himself and dying as our substitute to satisfy the just requirements of God\u2019s law (Romans 3:19-26). Jesus\u2019 love compelled Him to live a perfect life, meet the law\u2019s standard, and die as our substitute and surety, satisfying divine justice in our place (1 John 2:1, 2). This is the love of God (John 3:14-18). This is why we love Him, because He first loved us and lived and died to redeem us from the wages of sin. And love is why we keep His commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are the Remnant<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of the Seed<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of the Woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are loved, deeply loved. This love has been manifested in the eternal gift of Jesus\u2019 perfect life and substitutionary death, the clothing of His righteousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His love compels us to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, we are the remnant church, the remnant of God\u2019s love. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last book of the Bible speaks of a group of people who will follow God to the very end. He identifies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional","tag-newsletter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Remnant_of_What.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paAh8r-3m8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}