Who Is the Remnant Church?
1) Direct answer
The remnant church is the little, called-out Bride of Jesus Christ at the end of this age—those who are born of the Holy Ghost, keep the full Word, and are separated from man-made creeds. It’s not a denomination; it’s a people sealed to Christ by His Spirit.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Jesus said it would be a “little flock” (Luke 12:32) and that “few” find the narrow way (Matthew 7:14).
- God always keeps a “remnant according to the election of grace” (Romans 11:5).
- The true Church is a Bride made ready, washed by the Word, without spot or wrinkle (Ephesians 5:26-27; Revelation 19:7-8).
- The wise virgins have oil in their vessels—the Holy Spirit—and go in with the Bridegroom (Matthew 25:1-13).
- God calls, “Come out of her, My people,” to separate from Babylon’s confusion (Revelation 18:4).
- One Body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism—one Bride (Ephesians 4:4-5).
Important distinctions the Bible makes:
- The 144,000 are a Jewish remnant, sealed after the fullness of the Gentiles, not the Gentile Bride (Revelation 7:4; Romans 11:25-27).
- The foolish virgins are sincere but lack oil; they miss the Bridegroom and face the tribulation (Matthew 25:1-12). A great multitude comes out of that tribulation washed in the blood. The Bride of all ages, which no man could number is shown in Revelation 7:9-14.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- If the remnant were a denomination, which one? God doesn’t have many brides—He has one Bride joined to one Word.
- Membership on a roll doesn’t make the remnant; the new birth does. “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His” (Romans 8:9). You must be born again of water and Spirit (John 3:3-5).
- The mark of the remnant is obedience to His Word and the indwelling Spirit (John 14:23; Romans 8:14). Fruit proves the life (Matthew 7:20).
4) Short reinforcing statement
Now notice, the remnant church is small, Word-true, Spirit-filled, and ready. She will be caught up before the wrath (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 3:10). After she goes, God turns to Israel and seals the 144,000. You see, it’s not how many—it's who has the Life and stays with the Word.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-49
...t to believing. The Methodists say (based on the Word) there is no water baptism (sprinkling is not baptism) and that sanctification is the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. The Church of Christ majors in regenerational baptism and in all too many cases they go down dry sinners and come up wet ones. Yet they claim their doctrine is Word-based. Go right down the line and come to the Pentecostals. Do they have the Word? Give them the Word test and see. They will sell out the Word for a sensation just about every time. If...
Questions and Answers, part 2
54-0103E §101
...e? He ought to drop dead?" But Paul was so full of the Holy Ghost (See what I mean?), so full of the Holy Ghost until the poison wouldn't poison him. Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theologists failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home, with that faithful little remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. "He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is right...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §31
And then here come the dragon, the Roman hierarchy, which... The church itself had been raptured, and was in glory at the wedding supper for three and a half years. Then the dragon... See, the dragon is always Rome, the red dragon. Now to make that sure to you, in Revelation 12, the dragon was wroth with the woman that was to bring forth the man child that's to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And he spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the seed. But the red dragon... First, he stood b...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §66
A church across the nation, we are following Jesus Christ the Word! To be in the Bride, you have to be remarried to the Word of God, which is Christ. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." As long as you hold to man's traditions of denominations, you are called in God's Word a adulteress. As long as you are a denominational creed-seeker, belonging to a denominational church that denies the Word, you are an adulteress. Tha...
Taking sides with Jesus
62-0601 §32
Now, what I would think would be this, brethren, that like in the church here, now, my ministry has, the best of my thinking, four things that can be done; and it might not be either four, that's the only outlook I can think of. If that One that spoke to me down there on the river... If this is all that was left for the Gentile church---which we realize in Revelations it says one, two, three chapters to the church. The church goes up in the 4th chapter; it does not return anymore till the 19th chapter---that's afte...