You might want to ask yourself if you understand the word correctly ... ‘cause:
Aside from Rom. 9:27; 11:5; Rev. 12:17, the term “remnant” in the NT (Matt. 22:6; Rev. 11:13; 19:21) is not significant with respect to God’s people. In Rev. 3:2, however, the expression “which remain” is from loipos, the same word translated “remnant” in ch. 12:17.
A few centuries after Christ the church experienced the great papal apostasy. For some 1260 years papal power more or less effectively suppressed and scattered God’s true representatives on earth (see Additional Note on Dan. 7; see on Dan. 7:25; cf. Rev. 12:6). Through the Reformation of the 16th century (see on ch. 12:15, 16) God purposed once more to lead forth a “remnant,” this time from mystical
Babylon. Various Protestant groups served as Heaven’s appointed harbingers of truth, point by point restoring the glorious gospel of salvation. But group after group became satisfied with its partial concept of truth and failed to advance as light from God’s Word increased. With each refusal to advance, God raised up another group as His chosen instrument for the proclamation of truth.
Finally, with the passing of the 1260 years of papal supremacy (see on ch. 12:6, 14) and the arrival of the
“time of the end,” the time when Heaven’s last message (ch. 14:6– 12) was to be proclaimed to the
world (see on Dan. 7:25; 11:35), God raised up another “remnant,” the one designated in Rev. 12:17 (cf. vs. 14–17). This is the “remnant” of the long and worthy line of God’s chosen people that has survived the fierce onslaughts of the dragon down through history, most particularly the darkness, persecution, and error of the “time, and times, and half a time,” or 1260 “days” of vs. 6, 14. It is God’s last “remnant” by virtue of the fact that it is the appointed herald of His final appeal to the world to accept the gracious gift of salvation (ch. 14:6–12).
From the very first, Seventh-day Adventists have boldly proclaimed the three messages of ch. 14:6–12 as God’s last appeal to sinners to accept Christ, and have humbly believed their movement to be the one here designated as the “remnant.” No other religious body is proclaiming this composite message, and none other meets the specifications laid down in ch. 12:17. Hence none other has a valid, scriptural basis for claiming to be “the remnant” of v. 17.
However, Adventists repudiate emphatically and unequivocally any thought that they alone are children of God and have a claim upon heaven. They believe that all who worship God in full sincerity, that is, in terms of all the revealed will of God that they understand, are presently potential members of that final “remnant” company mentioned in ch. 12:17. Adventists believe that it is their solemn task and joyous
privilege to make God’s last testing truths so clear and so persuasive as to draw all of God’s children into
that prophetically foretold company that is making ready for the day of God.
Some truth in the post mixed with one helluva good helping of untruths, but a cult’s gotta cult, I guess. Can you show me where Paul referred to the Church as the remnant?
LOL:
“From the very first, Seventh-day Adventists have boldly proclaimed the three messages of ch. 14:6–12 as God’s last appeal to sinners to accept Christ, and have humbly believed their movement to be the one here designated as the ‘remnant.’”
You need to learn when you’ve been had.
Humbly ... right.
——>Can you show me where Paul referred to the Church as the remnant?
right there in post 131, Claire.