The Remnant
Tim O’Connor - Center for the Preservation of Humanity - 3/5/2025
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I believe we are the remnant and that we are a part of a larger, worldwide, remnant. As we move forward in this lesson, understand that when I say remnant I mean me and you.
The composition of the Remnant is most clearly defined in Revelation 12:17. This verse reads, The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua. In the King James version it reads nearly the same, And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
G-d commanded what of us? To be obedient to Him. To keep the Torah. To love Messiah and bear witness of His coming and prepare ourselves for the fulfillment of His promise to return.
Do not be ensnared into believing that these statements are contradictory. The word remnant appears 56 times in the Tanach and twice in the B’rit Hadashah in the Complete Jewish Bible. A complete list of these entries from the Complete Jewish Bible, followed by the King James translation (where there are 91 entries of remnant, not all included) appears in the appendix to this piece.
The Hebrew root word for remnant is sarid (שָׂרִיד; ‘SA-reed’). It can also mean survivor.
In Joel 3 verse 5 we can see both usages:
At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.
KJV (verse 2:32): And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
From this verse we can see that the remnant will be composed of survivors who escape. Escape from what? Escape from the evil which exists upon the earth and will only grow stronger as the world grows further away from G-d’s word – Torah. This is what Yeshua taught in Matthew 24:12. While Yeshua lived a life demonstrating and teaching a deeper meaning of Torah – one written upon our hearts – he also knew that instead of increasing understanding, deepening faith, and many would decide to put as much distance between themselves and Torah (and thus His teachings) as they could. Not only that, these same people have demanded others follow them as they flee from Torah and thus from G-d and His Son.
Included among the remnant will be those Adonai has called. This can refer to several groups. Rabbis are one such group. The Jewish people who have sought atonement are another. Another group could be one who was of a society which hates the Jewish people yet they individually repented of their hatred and were made survivors. These suggestions parallel the Exodus of Moses leading the Hebrew people out of Egypt and through the desert. Moses (the teacher, aka, rabbi), took the Hebrews (the atoning Jews), and a mixed multitude (non-Hebrews who came to fear the G-d of the Hebrews, Adonai, and love the Hebrews) and all of them were made into one people, Israel.
The speaker wishes to not be quoted “We [the remnant] are the new Moses,” and as the remnant, we need to bring Yeshua to Israel. Until Israel accepts Yeshua as the Messiah, peace in Israel and upon the earth will be fleeting and temporary. Which brings us to our next point – made in Matthew 5:17-20:
“Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah — not until everything that must happen has happened. 19So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers and P’rushim, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
KJV: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Yeshua is bluntly commanding His followers to obey the mitzvot handed down from G-d to Moses. He isn’t suggesting they be followed. He didn’t say if you want to, then go for it. Yeshua is bluntly stating to be obedient to the orders His Father gave to Moses. Yeshua isn’t telling us to do these because we can gain salvation in them but to do them to be holy, set apart, for our holy, set apart, G-d. He’s literally saying to us keep the Torah and do the mitzvot – not for fame, riches, power – but because Adonai has commanded us to keep them so that things will go well for us which includes between ourselves and G-d, amongst ourselves, and with those around us.
Yeshua is basically saying here I am, the Son of Man come in the flesh for your salvation, come to blot out your sins. I may be new to you but I am not new to my Father. It a synthesis of two verses, Ecclesiastes 1:9 and Deuteronomy 12:28 (respectively):
What has been is what will be, what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
KJV: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Obey and pay attention to everything I am ordering you to do, so that things will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, as you do what Adonai sees as good and right.
KJV: Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom. There is nothing new under the sun – Adonai always has been, is, and always will be and His ways do not stray, bend, nor erode. Yeshua was new to the people on earth but He was certainly known by His Father even before the first day of creation. Yeshua was perfect on earth because He always has been, is, and always will be perfect in His Father’s eyes – in His Father’s ways. Through Him we can find salvation. Through his teachings – deeper understandings of the revelation of the Torah given to Moses – we can be holy for G-d. In other words we can assist in mending the division between Heaven and earth. When G-d decides this repair is sufficient from our end we will enter into the Messianic Age.
And this takes us back to the first verse introduced, Revelation 12:17, The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.
When the Messianic Age is ushered in on earth there will be no room for the dragon for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:1-3) and the Adversary, now stuck upon earth, barred from Heaven, is very angry because he knows his time is short (Revelation 12:12). The adversary’s plan is always the same but through different tactics: increase our distance from G-d and make it impossible for us to think G-d can, let alone will, forgive our sins so that we fall away from Him, his Torah, and His Son altogether. This is written early on in the Bible, in Genesis 4:7, If you are doing what is good, shouldn’t you hold your head high? And if you don’t do what is good, sin is crouching at the door — it wants you, but you can rule over it.” KJV: If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
The point is that we have free will. We can choose to follow the instructions of G-d and profess the name of Yeshua – nothing will please G-d nor enrage the Adversary more. That means that when we walk righteously we must be vigilant in our discernment about how we can be made to stumble. This is something the remnant has and will have in spades. We will be lured into the grounds upon which we stumble unless we abide by the word of G-d, professing Yeshua as Messiah. We have a choice to walk in faith, truth, and knowledge along a serene beach with calm waters because we have faith in and fear HaShem, have faith in Yeshua, and have studied the Word. When times get tough and our faith is tested and the weaknesses in our understanding is exposed that’s when what seems to be a serene beach with calm waters becomes a mirage and as we approach we see the impending destruction looming in the black clouds and raging seas all about us and feel the razor sharp rocks needling into our feet…. The remnant is prepared in understanding, equipped with a thirst for wisdom and, thus, study, discerning so as not to be led astray by mirages and false teachings, and filled with faith in HaShem, His Word, and His Son.
Thus, comes the final verse I would like to remind you, the remnant, of. It is a contentious verse which has been used for two millennia to beat down Jews and has spawned a huge number of violent incidents and damaging, demeaning, and bigoted actions against Jews. It is one of the primary causes of supercessionsim (the idea that Christians have replaced Israel as G-d’s chosen people). It is a driver of antisemitism. And it’s all because of the way it has been purposely reconfigured by the Adversary who has only a short time and hates G-d and all of G-d’s creation to mean something Paul never intended. In the Complete Jewish Bible, Galatians 3:26-29 reads:
For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trusting faithfulness; 27 because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom 28there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one. 29Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are seed of Avraham and heirs according to the promise.
KJV: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Adonai changed Avram’s name to Avraham in Genesis 17:5, Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Avraham [father of many], because I have made you the father of many nations. KJV: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. Following his name change G-d explains in Genesis 17:6-14:
I will cause you to be very fruitful. I will make nations of you, kings will descend from you. 7“I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you. 8I will give you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now foreigners, all the land of Kena‘an, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.” 9God said to Avraham, “As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation. 10Here is my covenant, which you are to keep, between me and you, along with your descendants after you: every male among you is to be circumcised. 11You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12Generation after generation, every male among you who is eight days old is to be circumcised, including slaves born within your household and those bought from a foreigner not descended from you. 13The slave born in your house and the person bought with your money must be circumcised; thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin — that person will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my covenant.”
KJV: And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Let’s review some facts. Yeshua was circumcised on the eighth day. Yeshua knew the Torah and the Tanach and taught them in profound ways – not contradictory ways – profound ways. Far from rejecting the Torah and the Tanach – the Law and the Prophets, Yeshua paraphrased it down to two volumes: volume I, Love G-d With Your Entire Being; and, volume II Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself.
When people decided that Paul’s words in Galatians 3:27-29 (in all honesty the entirety of Galatians 3 as well as many other books, chapters, and verses have been intended to do the same thing) mean that the Torah is abolished, that is hardly what Paul was trying to convey. He railed against the legalism which was built up around the Torah. Paul himself was circumcised according to the covenant of Avraham. So what is he really trying to do here? He is demanding that faith in Yeshua will lead us to be obedient to G-d through the Torah Adonai gave and the Torah Yeshua taught, without all of the legalistic veneer men on earth seem to have a need to throw on top of G-d’s commands to make them tolerable to our sensibilities. Unfortunately, Paul failed to accomplish this. Romans, pagans through and through, took Paul’s Yeshua and turned Yeshua into a Roman digestible to the Roman population and unrecognizable to the Jewish world. It speaks to the hearts of men seeking out everything but G-d….
What lurks within men’s hearts? Being lured into eating forbidden fruits. Murdering our brothers because of jealousy. Taking things that are not ours. Making sacrifices to false gods. Thinking we can get ahead by wronging others. Slander. Hatred. Rape. Lust. It’s all SELFISHNESS. And what fixes all of that? Fearing G-d.
Why would Paul, a Jew who accepted Yeshua as the Messiah, ever tell anyone to stop fearing G-d by no longer showing that we fear G-d my obeying the Word of G-d? He wouldn’t. And he didn’t. He held Yeshua up as the standard to live by so that they would come to understand Yeshua’s standard to live by – Torah – but, because Paul did not adequately teach them Torah, Yeshua became Romanized, renamed Jesus, and made into an entire religion devoid of the actual word of G-d – the Torah.
Who would do this? I don’t think it was Paul’s intention. But this is certainly in line with the Adversary wanting to buy more time by creating division between the followers of Torah and the believers in this Jesus. The legalistic interpretations built around Jesus’ idolization, evidenced by the existence of tens of thousands of churches which have actually gone to kinetic war with one another from time to time, and the reintroduction of adherents to a legalistic understanding of Torah clearly display the divisions within and between those who claim to follow the Way and those who follow claim to follow the Torah. How sad. How un-Christlike. How anti-Torah. How unrighteous. And how much more difficult it is for the remnant to unite these disparate communities. Truly, a unification will only come through G-d. Yet, it is up to the remnant to set ourselves apart G-d and profess faith in Yeshua the Messiah so that HaShem might do His work through us.
We are the remnant. We are meant to unite those with belief in Yeshua (whether they call Him Yeshua, Jesus Christ, or Yahushua) with those who keep the Torah – the Jews. The idea that the Torah is done away with is absurd – G-d gave all of us an instruction manual to follow, the Torah, and all of us, Jew and pagan alike, need to follow it especially since Yeshua, the Son of Adonai, blessed be He, the Creator of the Universe and the Heavens, followed it. The result has been nearly 2,000 years of pagans with no knowledge of Adonai running around committing atrocities in G-d’s name and justifying it by saying ‘the Torah doesn’t matter to us.’ As the remnant we need to stand in the face of this and speak truth to the pagans proclaiming the Torah is dead so that we can bring it back to life in their lives. This is exactly what Moses did with the Hebrews and the mixed multitude – basically the worst people on earth – when he took them out of Egyptian captivity.
Conversely, the Jews who reject Yeshua cannot seem to stop making new entries into the legalistic annals built around Torah. These legalistic determinations prevent them from being able to have faith in Yeshua and, at times, impede on their ability to have faith in G-d because they have faith in the legalism Yeshua railed against the Pharisees for participating in. We don’t need to reinterpret the Torah. We need to have these present day Jews understand that Jesus is actually a Jew named Yeshua, who was, is and always will be the Jewish Messiah, who’s lessons were hijacked by evil entities to sow division, distrust, and hatred between their obedience to Torah (imperfect as it may be) and the Messiah they know will come. The remnant is to serve the Jewish people in bringing them to an understanding that the Messiah has already come, will return, and is the same one they long for presently.
How can we, the remnant, make this understanding by various Jews and gentiles come about? We model it. We show it in the actions we take day-to-day based on fear of Adonai. We show it when we worship on Shabbot. We show it in the way we treat others based on our understanding of what would Jesus do (not the socialist nonsense which has grown out of Marxism to make the claim Jesus was a socialist) if He were in our circumstances. But mostly we do this by being pious, studying, teaching, and discerning the world around us.
We do this by being a model to the Jew and the gentile alike. Truly, we are meant to be one. For the Jew who sees us living in peace in our communities, let them be envious. For the gentile who sees us living blessed lives lacking nothing because of our faith and without major strife or chagrin, nor malice, avarice, or jealousy towards another, let them be jealous of our humility. And when a member of either group comes and asks us ‘how are you so blessed?’ be ready to answer them – “through obedience to G-d (holiness), professing Yeshua is the Messiah (salvation), and loving our neighbors as we love ourselves (the rest of the mitzvot that deal with interpersonal relations).”
May you bless HaShem the G-d of Israel – the G-d of the Universe, the G-d of everything on earth, the stars, and the heavens – and may He bless you. Am Israel Chai (The people of Israel live).