Throughout Scripture, Yahweh’s willingness to continue to work with “the few who get it” forces Israel to constantly rethink its own theology of salvation. It becomes a token of God’s own faithfulness: “In your midst I will leave a humble and lowly people; those who remain will seek all their refuge in Yahweh” (Zephaniah 3:12). The “remainder” becomes a standing symbol of how little it takes for God to stay with us. Yet those who are often called the “chosen” or the “elect” are chosen not because of God’s actual favoritism toward them, but because of their radical trust in God’s universal,
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