A God-Fearing Remnant in the Midst of a Hardened People

God will ever see to it that there is a people on earth who serve Him even in the midst of the most hardened and callous spiritual apathy. As a jewel cast on a pile of coal, so in this section of Malachi we are shown a God-fearing remnant in the midst of the most blatant and blasphemous religious indifference. The words ofRomans 11:5 are underscored by our lesson: "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace" (see Rom. 11:3-6). We are first...