Painting by Gustave DorĆ© How is it that a remnant of the ancient Hebrews were saved, if āin Christ and through Christ we are saved;ā the Lord Jesus having not been earth born until after Israel was established, ā more than two millennia of its existence being in the grace of God, and also, often at times, in rebellion against God? So much rebellion, that through all of its historical existence, the Word has expressly made it a point that most of the Jews, were as the non-Jews, whereas, at all times, there has been a remnant of a greater whole, whom lived in the mercy of God. Abraham was righteous, but his son Ishmael was not. Isaac was righteous, but his son Esau was not, Jacob was righteous, but nearly all of his sons, whom God had mercy on, behaved themselves as murderers, selling their brother Joseph into slavery, and forsaking him as good as dead. Elimelech (book of Ruth) was of Bethlehem, but it was Ruth of Moab who was righteous. What of Abraham, and those whom God the Fathe...
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