Romanos 9:29

‘And, as Isaiah has said before, “Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and had been made like to Gomorrah”.'

This picture is then seen as confirmed by Isaías 1:9, where, apart from ‘a seed' left to them by God (the seed of Abraham mentioned in Romanos 9:7? The holy seed of Isaías 6:12), all Israel were to be destroyed by God's judgment in the same way as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Once again those who were acceptable to God, and therefore saved, were only a remnant out of Israel. These three verses confirm that what the whole passage from Romanos 9:6 has been about was the election of a minority of Israel who would alone remain as God's people, being supplemented by large numbers of Gentiles, who would also become God's people. This incorporating of Gentiles into Israel to form the true Israel is confirmed in Romanos 11:17; Gálatas 3:29; Gálatas 6:16; Efesios 2:11; 1 Pedro 1:9; etc.

‘The Lord of Sabaoth.' A transliteration of the Hebrew which means ‘the Lord of Hosts.'