REMNANT OF ISRAEL

[‭Ezekiel 9:8 NKJV] — So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

[Ezekiel 9:8 NIV] — While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

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The Scribe clothed in linen did not mark Ezekiel and yet the Executioners did not kill Ezekiel there. He was left alone or was the only man in flesh and blood standing while the rest of mankind in the open temple court were killed.

☆ So why was Ezekiel neither marked nor executed among the people there?

Though Ezekiel was there in Jerusalem (and in the temple), he was not classified or memberized within Judah or Jerusalem but within Israel and precisely those in exile. Infact, when you read beginning of “Ezekiel 11” you will discover there were yet 25 men and leaders of the city of Jerusalem by the East Gate of the Temple, who were evil schemers and evil politicians that gave evil counsel to Jerusalem, and yet they were not destroyed during this outpouring of wrath and destruction. In “Ezekiel 11:13,” one of those 25 men would suddenly be killed while Ezekiel was prophesying, and then Ezekiel will repeat similar thing he did or said in the top bible verse above by then.

In the top bible verse above, this was what Ezekiel did and said after the killing of the 25 men who worshipped the sun, which Ezekiel would again do and say in similar but slightly different way when one of another set of 25 men was killed in “Ezekiel 11:13:”
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He fell on his face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

In both occasions, what prompted Ezekiel to react this way was the destruction of God on those in Jerusalem or Judah, whom those who were in exile considered as “Remnant of Israel” because they were still left in their land while those who were taken into captivity or exile were considered as the lost people of Israel. So the hope of Israel was on those still in their land, whom they referred to as “Remnant of Israel.” However the Lord God correct that wrong impression or wrong reference to who were “Remnant of Israel” after Ezekiel use the same reference in “Ezekiel 11:13.” For then God began to reveal to him that these people of Jerusalem you and your people in exile (including they themselves in Jerusalem) call the “Remnant of Israel” based on geographical location are not whom God sees as “Remnant of Israel” because God will back those Israelites who were scattered in different countries of the world into their land, and give them a new heart and new spirit, removing the stony heart away from them, and rebuild them in their land. And meanwhile, many of these ones at Jerusalem currently then and calling themselves remnant of Israel shall be removed and lost instead.

You may recall the lessons that God taught Ezekiel by the dry bones rising again to redefine how God can bring back or restore the seemingly lost hope of Israel back even from their graves and from far countries.

So God may have different numbering for counting who are truly “Remnant of Israel, Children of Abraham, True Jews indeed (not synagogue of Satan) or True Christians.”

John the Baptist told them to not think that parading themselves as the ‘Children of Abraham’ grants them immunity or makes them untouchable, because God can raise these Stones into becoming the Children of Abraham before God” [Luke 3:8]. Paul —

[Romans 9:6-8 FBV] — It's not that God's promise has failed. For not every Israelite is a true Israelite, and all those who are descended from Abraham are not his true children. For Scripture says, “Your descendants will be counted through Isaac,” so it's not Abraham's actual children who are counted as God's children, but only those children of God's promise who are considered his true descendants.

Basically, God had different system for determining who “The Remnants of Israel” or The True Jews” are, from how men count or consider these things. Nevertheless, Ezekiel employing that “Remnant of Israel” technique in making Intercession helped in preventing total annihilation of the sinners in Jerusalem then. Do not forget this lesson: — Even if God will not have Mercy on Israel, God will still have Remnant of Israel. Therefore, when using mercy to intercede will not work, using remnant to intercede may work, just as Ezekiel was good at doing before God.