Remnant

The notion that Seventh-day Adventists are the remnant church of Bible prophecy has played a central role in the church’s consciousness from its earliest years. It entails the notion that Adventists are a special people, with a special message for the end of history, distinct from all other forms of Christianity. There are diverse opinions among Adventists today as to just what it means to be the remnant church. For some it lies in the fact that the Advent movement exhibits definite prophetic earmarks, including the specific time of its origin and the manifestation of the gift of prophecy within its ranks. For others, the dramatic differences between Adventism today and Adventism in its earliest years call for another look at the remnant. As they see it, remnant identity involves engaging the world in healing and redemptive activities, much as Adventists did in the nineteenth century, along with the recognition that God’s final remnant will include people from various religious groups.

This presentation examines the theological, methodological, and historical process that characterizes the development of the futuristic system of prophetic interpretation, especially the books of Daniel and Revelation, until its establishment as the Dispensationalism. Here it is shown that the adoption of the hermeneutics methodology known as futurism, based on a literal interpretation of Scripture and the concept of a double fulfillment, has gained ground among Protestant movements to almost eliminate the system of the prophetic interpretation of the Reformation. In this way, the acceptance of the futuristic methodological approach inexorably has led to transform the eschatological interpretation in both Protestantism and Adventism.

The Reformation and the Remnant: The Reformers Speak to Today’s Church (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2016), 142 pp. Paperback, US$15.99 On the eve of five centuries since Martin Luther circulated his 95 Theses in Wittenberg comes this thoughtful, and at times even provocative, book on the meaning ...

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Carmelo Luis Martines, El remanente fiel: Un debate contemporáneo (The Faithful Remnant: A Contemporary Debate), (Libertador San Martin, Argentina: Editorial Universidad Adventista del Plata, 2014), xii+249 pages, ISBN: 978-987-1378-30-2. Paperback, US$20.00. Carmelo L. Martines (PhD., River Plat...

Throughout history God has had faithful followers (Rev 12). By making such a statement we also acknowledge that the Old and New Testaments also recount the apostasy of God’s people (Ezek 23; Rev 17; 2 Thess 2:1-4). The faithful followers of God are called remnant. I. The End Time Remnant in Revel...

Introduction The number 144,000 is one of several apparently cryptic numbers of Revelation that has caused much speculation. Generations of Christians including Adventists have studied this symbol. In the past, the Biblical Research Institute has already published an article on the 144,000 and th...

Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller, deputy director of the Biblical Research Institute, has written an in-depth study of the book of Revelation in German. Der Erste und der Letzte: Studien zum Buch der Offenbarung ( The First and the Last: Studies in the Book of Revelation ) was published in the series Adv...

A groundbreaking new book has just been published by the Biblical Research Institute entitled Toward a Theology of the Remnant: An Adventist Ecclesiological Perspective . “This is the first full theological and exegetical study of the remnant as it applies to Adventist ecclesiology,” says Ángel ...

Adventists have found in Rev 12:17 and 14:6-12 a description of their identity and mission as God’s end-time remnant people. The application of that biblical motif to themselves has led some to conclude that the Adventist understanding of the remnant is offensive, exclusivist, and triumphalist. T...

In Challenges to the Remnant the author attempts to trace God’s remnant throughout history until the end of the age, noting three main challenges common to God’s remnant: persecution, deception, and mission. The task is executed in twenty-two chapters and four appendices. Devoting the first thr...