Why Are Christians Praying for the Remnant?

Have you been confused about someone mentioning they are praying for God to protect His remnant, or 'the' remnant? 

What is 'the remnant'?

The remnant are the faithful of God who are forgiven of their sins because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. We are saved from eternal damnation and are not  enslaved to sin, solely because of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.  True believers are people whose lives bear the fruit the Scriptures talk about, this fruit is the evidence which shows people who have died to themselves and now live for God.  The remnant is not made up of people who give lip service to God but live how they want; people who use God's name, possibly attend church and cry out to Him for help but who live like they want; or people whose religion changes with the times. 

Noah's family was THE remnant in his day (their salvation was trusting in God for the promise of the Messiah to come). 

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time." Genesis 7:1

 

Many places in Scripture mention the remnant. This should give all people who claim to be Christians pause, realizing there is a distinct group of people God refers to as the remnant. It is not a large group of people...think of a carpet and then a remnant of a carpet....

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. Genesis 45:7

For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. Isaiah 10:22

In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice. Romans 11:5

In the days we're living in, here in America amidst a Presidential election, the ideologies of the Democratic party are strongly in opposition what the Bible teaches. If what they want to do happens, it is a time that Christians know will bring great misery on our nation and on us as believers. 

Here are some of the reasons why Christians need God to protect us and our children:

• Eliminating school choice will hurt Christians. The ideologies and many specific teachings in public schools are opposed to the Bible.
• The majority of Christians disagree with spending tons of money on something we don't believe is valid scientifically (climate change). This will take resources needed for other things that are more important.
• Eliminating religious liberty will impact Christian schools by forcing them to accept sin such as allowing pregnant students to stay in school or hiring homosexuals. 
• Democrats always want to expand abortion rights and have taxpayers fund them.
• They want to expand the Supreme Court which will destroy our judicial branch, making everything political. This moves us closer and closer to communism. 
• Eliminating our American sovereignty puts us under nations that hate God. People are more free, specifically women, in America because of our Christian ideals.
• Wealth redistribution will make everyone poor except the elite (read up on communism and socialism--Animal Farm by George Orwell is an easy start).
• They want open borders which causes a host of problems socially and economically.
• They want to make guns illegal and eliminate gas powered cars. Freedom dwindles...people are easier to control.
• They want to submit our American sovereignty to the UN.
• They are not a friend to Israel which God warns about in His word. If we are against Israel as a nation, God is against us.
• Democrats want to empower children over their parents and criminalize counseling against gender change.

When you know people who have claimed to be Christians, but who do NOT vote to protect the unborn, do NOT vote for the party that wants to align with Israel, and do NOT vote in support of parents being those to make decisions for their own family, you sadly know people who are likely not actually Christians. Or you know Christians who have compromised to the point of great concern. Let God be true and every man a liar (Rom 3:4). The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God (1 Cor 3:19)--vote with the values we know are God's based on His word. 

See 1 Cor 6:9-11; Prov 6:17; Is 44:6-26; Gen 12:3; Num 24:9

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance. Psalm 33:12