Part 4: God's Chosen Remnant

Who are those the Lord calls “His Remnant”?

The Lord has said many times that HIS remnant is chosen ONLY by Him. 

The remnant is NOT decided by those who have large bank accounts, as there will be those the Lord says who have nothing, but are meek, humble, and obedient. Please understand that even this fundraiser is a test for those whom the Lord says have been given much, and of whom he is requiring much. “Money and storehouses are the biggest test of idolatry”, says the Lord. If you are one who the Lord commands to "give it all away." will you be obedient? Every believer should ask themselves this question. The Lord is saying, “Wealth will be the greatest test for many who call me Lord”.

The Remnant 

Isaiah 11:11 On that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. 

Romans 9: 27 -29. In verse 27, “Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, ‘Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved. For the Lord will execute His Word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.’ And just as Isaiah foretold, ‘Unless the Lord had left to us a posterity, we would have become like Sodom and would have resembled Gomorrah. So what is a remnant? A remnant is a small ‘leftover' that would appear to be of no interest to anyone, BUT GOD. A remnant is that portion of a group of people that is left over after a catastrophic devastation. It’s what remains after divine judgment. It is after the invasion of a foreign army. It is the survivors. 

In the historical background, these are two Isaiah quotations, Isaiah 10:27, 28 and Isaiah 1:29, and these two Isaiah passages go back to the eighth century B.C., in a time of national apostasy. Isaiah prophesies of the coming destruction of the nation. There will be the Assyrians who will come down and literally just level the nation. And the survivors will be those who will be taken off as slaves and captives to the Assyrian Empire. And it will be there that they will be so humbled, they will put their trust in the Lord. And they alone will be brought back because everyone else has already been slaughtered. And it’s the remnant that escapes the devastation of the catastrophe. 

This is such a dominant theme in the book of Isaiah, that Isaiah has been called “a miniature Bible,” in that there are sixty-six chapters, just like there’s sixty-six books in the Bible. The first thirty-nine chapters are chapters of woe and judgment, that the nation is headed for a catastrophic devastation. And then Isaiah chapters 40- 66, is the return of the remnant back to the Promised Land. Also note that Isaiah had two sons and he was told by God to name one of those two sons, “the remnant will return.” So, it is a testimony of God’s wrath and it’s also a testimony of God’s grace, because God had prepared the way back for the remnant even before they were carted off. Just like God’s grace and God’s mercy is already in play long before we even ever sinned and came under the wrath of God.

Romans 9: 25,26 God’s saving of the Gentiles, “Those who were not My people became My people, and those who were not beloved became beloved,” remember? So now, we’re going to look at God’s dealing with Israel. And just for us to be reminded how God deals with Israel is much how He deals with us. So it would be a false step for us to say, “Well that’s Israel, that didn’t have anything to do with me.” Well, there’s only one way of salvation, and how God saves Israel is how God saves you.

This remnant is the chosen remnant. These are the elect of God. We could say these are the elect of the elect, meaning they are those chosen for salvation within the larger circle of the chosen nation. It’s one thing to be a Jew; it’s something else to be a converted Jew. And so, the remnant are those who have been chosen by God before the foundation of the world to be saved. They had been called by God within the time, at the appointed time, into a saving relationship with Himself. They have believed upon the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. They have been saved, and they are now being preserved by God and will be ushered into God’s presence one day in heaven. But the point is, “out of the larger number,” how large? Well, as large as the number of the sands, grains of sand on the beaches of the world, there will only be, in essence, a tablespoon. There will only be a small number that the saving purposes of God will be directed towards.

Isaiah 1: 9, “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a few survivors,” that’s the remnant, “we would be like Sodom, we would be like Gomorrah.” The survivors are those that God has sovereignly, graciously intervened in their lives to save them. verse 21, “A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 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. For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.” What God will execute will be the destruction of the nation. And what God will execute is “only a remnant will be saved.” 

So, “though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea,” here’s the point, “it is the remnant that will be saved.” God never promised to save the entire nation, that was never in the eternal counsel of God. That was never in the eternal purpose of God. All God said is that there will be a very significant remnant out of the larger number. This remnant is like a small nucleus, it’s like a tiny island in the midst of an ocean of apostasy. That there will be a fragment that God will save. So, God’s purposes have not failed. In fact, God’s purposes are precisely on track, because it is the remnant that will be saved. 

Now, as Paul says this in Romans 9, he’s not thinking of just physical enemies; he is speaking actually of the greatest threat to unbelievers that there is, God Himself and the wrath of God upon those who refuse to repent of their sin and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now turn one more chapter, Isaiah 11:11, “Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.” What he is saying is that there will be a great ingathering of people from the corners of the earth in the future. It's prophetic, looking ultimately to the end of the age. 

Look at verse 16 “And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant,” you see the word “remnant,” “for the remnant of His people who will be left, just as there was for Israel, in the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.” There’s going to be a second exodus. Just like the first one, when they came out of Egypt, there’s going to be a second one when they come out of Assyria. And when they come out of Babylon to be brought back into the land, it will be as though God will pave a highway in the wilderness in order to bring them back. And it is the, really the providential hand of God that will bring them back. So who’s coming back? Well, it’s not the whole nation; it’s the remnant, it’s the survivors. 

Isaiah 6 is the call of Isaiah into the prophetic office, it’s the vision of the holiness of God and in verse 8, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?” “Then I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!'” In verse 9, Isaiah is now commissioned into the office of the prophet. “Tell these people,” and He is saying to Isaiah, as you go and preach, they’re not going to perceive, they’re not going to understand, in fact your preaching is going to harden their hearts. Your preaching, in verse 10, is going to render their hearts insensitive to the things of God. Your preaching is going to make their ears dull. Your voice will be so loud with the truth, it’s going to cause a hearing loss for Israel and the people of God. Verse 10, “And their eyes will grow dim.” It’s going to be like they’re staring into the bright light of the sun, and it will be the light of the truth of the message that you will bring will blind them. It’s the judgment of God upon His people. verse 13, “yet there will be a tenth portion in it, and it will again be subject to burning.” And Jerusalem was burned to the ground, it says, “it will be like a tree or a stump,” that is burned in the forest with a forest fire. There will however be little twigs that will emerge from that charred stump and that’s the remnant that will come back from the devastation that will be brought upon the nation Israel.

Now the larger point that Paul is making is, do not think that it was the purpose of God to save the entire nation. From the very beginning, it’s only a remnant that will be saved. And every one of those whom God foreknew, He predestined, He called, He justified and they will be glorified. 

This was God’s eternal plan and purpose from before the foundation of the world, and it is being fulfilled before your very eyes. 

Romans 9: 6 says, “But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel.” Not all Israel is Israel. There’s a physical Israel, and there is a saved Israel within the physical Israel. So, Paul is saying in verse 6, “Don’t jump to the wrong conclusion that the Word of God has failed, because Isaiah said all along it’s only going to be a remnant that’s going to be saved.” In verse 13, even within Israel, “Jacob I loved, Esau I hated,” even within one womb not everyone was saved.

In verses 21 and 22, “From one lump of clay, does not the potter have a right to make some to be vessels of wrath, and others to be vessels of mercy?” I mean, even within the same lump not everyone is a vessel of mercy. There are those that are a vessel of wrath, and that was according to God’s plan. 

In Romans 11: 5, “In the same way then, there has come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.” So, God has always chosen only a remnant out of the nation, out of many families, out of the nation Israel, and it is a remnant according to God’s choice, by His grace. 

Now look at Romans 11:8, “God gave them a spirit of stupor.” That means God rendered their minds so that they were stupid and could not understand the gospel. It’s not the devil; it’s God. It’s a judicial hardening of their hearts. And then verse 8, “Eyes to see not and ears to hear not.” God has just blinded their eyes and deafened their ears so that they cannot see their need for Christ and so that they cannot hear the gospel call.

Look at verse 10, “Let their eyes be darkened to see not, and bend their backs forever.” So, not only has God only chosen a remnant, but God has blinded and deafened the rest. This is the sovereignty of God in His grace and in His righteous judgment.

Romans 11:25.26, “For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery – so that you will not be wise in your own estimation – that a partial hardening has happened to Israel.” In other words, it’s not final and it’s not complete – it was only partial, “until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so, all Israel will be saved.” There is coming a day, and I would take the “all” to be in a hyperbolic way that a vast number of Israel will be saved, and the time of this will be at the end of the age. Before the end of the age it’s only a partial hardening, but at the end all Israel will be saved. 

So, back to Isaiah 10:23 and read the context, what it says is God will execute, quote, unquote, “complete destruction.” This isn’t saying He’s going to execute salvation thoroughly and quickly, the way some are taking it, No, He will execute wrath and damnation thoroughly and quickly. Remember, it’s the remnant that is saved. Everyone else suffers the catastrophic destruction and devastation. 

In verse 28, “For the Lord will execute,” please note the divine certainty of this, “will execute,” it’s in the future tense, active voice, indicative mood meaning this is a statement of fact, this is what God will do. God will be active, the nation will be passive. God will act upon the nation with certainty, and He will execute. The word “execute” there, the idea is to bring it to pass, to accomplish it. “For the Lord will execute His word on the earth thoroughly.” The word “thoroughly” means completely, none overlooked, and none will escape this execution. “Quickly,” meaning it will happen swiftly and speedily, and there will be no time to repent, there will be no time to turn away from your sin, there will be no time to say, “O God, give me another chance.” There will be no time to offer some final confession. It will happen so quickly that it is irreversible. And God will do it without hesitation. God will not be slow to bring this about because it will be an expression of His perfect holiness. 

Now in the day of Isaiah, this verse that we just read in verse 28, this execution of severe wrath, refers to the coming invasion that will come by the Assyrians and come by the Babylonians. But in the day of Paul, this severe wrath was first mentioned in chapter 1:18, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,” it probably is looking ahead to 70 A.D. in the total destruction of Jerusalem, not one stone left upon another in the temple as the Romans will come, I think it was Vespasian who led the onslaught, and just literally devastate the entire city and scatter the Jews to the nations of the world and just remove them from their Promised Land. It also looks ahead to the final judgment as well. So, this is the severe judgment, and these are the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction that were mentioned chapter 9:22, 21.

Now, let’s look at the last heading, verse 29, this is serious, this is somber, but let us remember it is deserved, but it is also gracious because God doesn’t have to even save a remnant. God would be just as holy and just as righteous and just 

as perfect if He just wiped the whole nation off the map. That there is a remnant speaks of unspeakable mercy and grace. So in verse 29, “The Sinful Nation,” and just as Isaiah foretold, and he now quotes Isaiah 1: 9, “Unless the Lord of Sabbath” and that means literally “the Lord of hosts,” meaning the Lord who is leading legions and legions and legions of armies at His disposal, and this title for God is a title that identifies God as the one who is the all-encompassing sovereign, who holds every human life in His hands, who holds every human destiny in His hands, who has the whole world in His hands and can dispose of it how He pleases. 

“Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a posterity,” and this posterity is the remnant in verse 27. It’s the “vessels of mercy” in verse 23. It’s those “who are called” in verse 27. “Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a posterity,” and “a posterity” literally is the Greek word sperma from which we derive the word “seed,” the idea is an offspring, but it’s the remnant. “We would,” “we” referring to the entire nation of Israel, “would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” 

I don’t need to tell you about Sodom and Gomorrah as it was overrun with its unnatural desires, men for men and even bypassing women to get to other men. Sodom and Gomorrah was so literally wiped out by God, it no longer exists. It’s probably at the bottom of the Dead Sea. God just brought fire down from heaven. He was so repulsed by the filth of the depravity that He just burned up those two cities to the point they no longer exist. I mean, you can’t buy a bus ticket to Sodom and Gomorrah. It’s not on the map anymore. And what Isaiah was saying and what Paul is saying is that if God had not intervened with the nation Israel, it had spiraled down into such apostasy that it would have reached the dregs of Sodom and Gomorrah, except God intervenes to save a remnant. And it’s always been the remnant that God has set His heart upon.

Think about this in the book of Genesis, in Genesis 6 before the flood, the entire world was so loathsome in the sight of God in its sin that God was grieved that He even made man. And He told Noah to build an ark, and He said, “Get your wife, get your three sons, get their three wives onto that ark, and I’m going to wipe out the entire globe.” It was just a remnant that was saved. 

And then at the end of Genesis 11, a man named Abram who had become Abraham, he was a moon worshiper, he was an idolater who was living in the Ur of Chaldees. God calls Abram, Lot and Sarai to come out and to lead them to a place they had no idea where they were even going, until in Genesis 15 they came to a place where Abraham believed God, and God reckoned it to Him as righteousness. But out of that entire Ur of Chaldees, there’s only three people brought out to become the fountainhead for the nation of Israel. Israel started with a remnant. Israel started with a moon worshiping idolater that God called out to begin His work. 

And then in Genesis 19, as they come to Sodom and Gomorrah, God sends two angels of war to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. And God says to Abram, “Come out and bring your family out, and bring Lot and his wife out, and don’t look back because what I’m about to do will be so devastating.” and, as you recall, Lot’s wife, she turned around and looked back with some longing and affection, and God just turned her into a pillar of salt. It was only that little remnant that escaped the fire from heaven that turned Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes. 

So, as we think about God’s eternal purposes and plan, as we think about God’s dealings with Israel, know that the Word of God has not failed. Everything is right on track…right on schedule. There is a remnant and only a remnant that God will save, and you and I could preach until we’re blue in the face, and there’s not going to be one more extra saved because God has given a spirit a stupor, and God has blinded their eyes and deafened their ears. They were already totally depraved and now it is a double total depravity. It is ONLY a remnant saved. There is a partial hardening at the time of the fullness of the Gentiles at the end of the age, and then the floodgates of God’s mercy will be released and all of Israel will be saved.

History has always hinged with the few. If you’re looking for large numbers to go join a religious movement, you’re probably in the wrong movement. God has always worked through a remnant. And let me just remind you of Matthew 7:14, “The gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few that be who will find it.” Let me remind you of Matthew 22:14, “Many are called, few are chosen.” And let me remind you of Matthew 13, “the Sower and the seed,” three were bad soil, only one of the four was good soil. And that was to prepare the disciples as they would be commissioned and sent out. “Don’t think that everyone is just going to come running to hear the good news. There’s only going to be a portion that God will prepare the soil of their heart.” 

And let me remind you of Luke 13:23-24, the disciples so understood this that they said, “Well, Master, are only a few being saved?” And Jesus said, “Strive to enter into the kingdom of heaven,” meaning no one is just going to trip their way in, no one is just going to shuffle their feet to enter. No, you’re going to have to strive in the agony of repentance and confession of sin and committing your life to Christ. 

So just remember “the few,” and then remember “the focus.” That what God will do, He will do through the few. But even among us there are just a few being saved. So that should cause every one of us to examine ourselves, “Lord, am I saved or am I just a part of a church, part of a religious movement, just part of a Bible study? If there’s just a few being saved, have I been born again, have I truly been born into the kingdom of heaven?” And that is a sovereign work of God’s grace in the heart that implants spiritual life in the one who is spiritually dead. 

We don’t need to add on. It’s a few who are being saved. Obviously, there are more saved than just you and I. But what a rare person you are in the economy of God if you are numbered among the Gentile remnant as well.

I want to tell you that how God operates with Israel is how God operates with you and me as Gentiles. And it is all because of his grace that God chose you. There was nothing in you that would have made God choose you. You were a car wreck of a person, yet God chose you simply because He wanted to choose you, because it pleased Him to choose you. Therefore, He has now drawn you to Himself and kept you and redeemed you and reconciled you by grace. There was nothing you did to be reconciled to God. There was nothing you did to redeem yourself. There was nothing you did to propitiate the righteous anger of God towards you. It was all of grace. 

Are you now going to be a part of this remnant of grace? When God chose His elect, he chose not only Jews to be a part of the bride of Christ, but He also chose Gentiles to be a part of the body of Christ.

There is a great separation going on in the earth right now and the Lord is testing ALL those who call him Lord. This testing is sweeping across the globe, and most “Christians” have NO idea they are even being tested, much less that they are failing the tests. The Lord God is NOT random, nor has he decided to pick ‘favorites’ but is in fact keeping score and looking at the hearts of all who call him Lord, so that he may judge them righteously. In the revelations the Lord has given me, the greatest tests are, obedience, idols, and the way we treat others. Those who are “the least,” in the eyes of men. The Lord revealed to me on my journey that twice I was tested by an angel, who certainly DID NOT appear to be an angel. The Lord is exposing the deception and the wickedness in the hearts of those who believe that they are saved.

Jeremiah 31:7-11 For thus says the LORD: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!’ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn. Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.' For the LORD has redeemed Jacob And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he. 

Isaiah 11:11-12 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 

Isaiah 2:2-4 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That The mountain of the LORD’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations And rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Jeremiah 30:7-11 Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. 'For it shall come to pass in that day,' Says the LORD of hosts, 'That I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve the LORD their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them.  'Therefore, do not fear, O My servant Jacob,' says the LORD, 'Nor be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice And will not let you go altogether unpunished.'

Ezekiel 36:24-29 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you.

Amos 9:11-15 “ On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins ,And rebuild it as in the days of old; That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name, "Says the LORD who does this thing.' Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD,' When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it. I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them, "Says the LORD your God. 

Isaiah 27:12-13 And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 16:14-15 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Ezekiel 11:17-20 Therefore say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."" And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:22-28 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again. They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God. “David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes and do them. Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed, I will be their God, and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”’”

Amos 9:8-9 " Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, "Says the LORD." For surely, I will command And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. 

Micah 4:1-5 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it. Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths. "For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid; For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. For all people walk each in the name of his god, But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God Forever and ever. 

Luke 22:30 that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'