Have you ever felt like you are the only true believer? Or, that the weight of the kingdom falls on your shoulders alone? Did Shaul/Paul feel this way? Did Elijah? What is the “Elijah Complex”?

In our continuing global broadcast teaching this week from Romans 9-11, the focus is on the REMNANT in chapter 11 and chapter 9:27-29. Once again, Ariel reminds us to look at the Scriptures Paul is referencing from the Tenakh in order to fully understand the depth of meaning in this letter to the Romans.

Paul, following Yeshua, prophesies about God’s judgment coming to Jerusalem, just like in the time of Jeremiah and the First Temple. But from Isaiah and the story of Elijah, he reminds us that God has always promised to preserve a remnant that will return from exile. The history of the Jewish people is filled with stories of judgments, exiles, pogroms and even the Holocaust. Modern Israel is an ingathering of a surviving remnant of Jewish people from the four corners of the earth. In the midst of the physical remnant, God is also raising up a faithful, Messianic remnant. The Gospel brings it all together in Him.

WATCH today as Ariel explains how each one of us needs to fully and zealously respond to God’s unique calling on our lives, while realizing that we are never alone—there is a remnant. And God always works primarily through this remnant to bring about His purposes. He has promised that there would be survivors in every generation in preparation for the day when all Israel will be saved (Romans 11:26).

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace (Rom 11:5).