Few Men Left

Few Men Left: Salvation or Judgment on the Church?

FROM MULTITUDE TO FEW: JUDGMENT?

Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and FEW men LEFT.

De 28:62 And ye shall be left FEW in NUMBER, whereas ye WERE as the stars of heaven for MULTITUDE; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

De 4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be LEFT FEW in NUMBER among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Le 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you FEW in NUMBER; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Ps 105:11-12 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:.. When they were but a FEW men in NUMBER; yea, very few, and **strangers** in it>.

Joe 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no **strangers** pass through her any more.

Ge 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I {} FEW in NUMBER, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Ez 5:3-4 Thou shalt also take thereof a FEW in NUMBER, and bind them in thy skirts… Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

Jer 42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are LEFT but a FEW of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

Isa 29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

FROM FEW TO MULTITUDE: SALVATION?

De 33:6 Let Reuben (behold a son) live, and not die; and let NOT his men be FEW.

Jer 30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall NOT BE FEW; I will also glorify them, and they shall NOT BE SMALL (brought low).

De 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven FOR MULTITUDE.

Ac 17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great MULTITUDE, and of the chief women NOT A FEW.

Re 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great MULTITUDE, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

FEW, REMNANT, REMAIN: ELECT NOT BEING CUT OFF IN JUDGMENT?

Isa 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small REMNANT, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Ro 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a REMNANT shall be saved:

Isa 10:21 The REMNANT shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

Isa 10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a REMNANT of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Re 3:4 Thou hast a FEW names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

NONE TO REMAIN: THE CHURCH BEING DESOLATE IN JUDGMENT?

De 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

Jer 51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

Jer 42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

THE REST, REMNANT: THE CHURCH REMAINING UNDER JUDGMENT?

Isa 16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant <07605> shall be very small and feeble.

Zep 1:4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant <07605> of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

Re 9:20 And the REST of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

SUMMARY CONCLUSION:

Is 24:6 that speaks of FEW men LEFT appears to be pointing to God’s Judgment on the Church at the revelation of Christ. God can use the remnant, few, the rest, the remnant in speaking of judgment or salvation depending on the context. 1