[OBW]

Question. It seems that there was maybe one actual reference to a remnant in the Bible. Was it so important that there should be a remnant theology?

The reason I ask it this way is that the whole remnant idea based on the return from Babylon would seem to not be anything specifically special in the way that Lee taught it. Surely there was the prophetic need for Israel to be once again when the Messiah came. But it has always been interesting that they were only very briefly somewhat free from bondage even in Judea. And one of the leaders of the return was only there for a while for some of the building, then was required to return to his post as cup bearer for the king.

And it was the semi-freedom to return, or stay, or go elsewhere that seems to have begun the scattering that found the Jews almost everywhere when Paul began his journeys. Not so negative after all.

My problem with remnant theology is that it is steeped in the idea that Christians are mostly falling away and there has to be some special few who stand for the truth, or return to the truth. I honestly think that this is more in error than whatever "deadness" we attribute to groups that just don't get excited outwardly like the LRC and some other groups do.