A remnant ... The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

"For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this" (Isaiah 37:32).

A remnant - When Isaiah was called by God to the prophetic  ministry, he was given a warning. He was told that only a small minority of his hearers would respond positively to his message. If Isaiah was expecting the majority of his hearers to welcome his preaching, he would have been discouraged by the poor response that he received from so many people - The land is utterly desolate ... and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land" (Isaiah 6:11-12). Isaiah needed to receive encouragement from the Lord. This is the encouragement he was given - "But yet a tenth will be in it ... As a terebinth tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump" (Isaiah 6:13). If we read most of Isaiah 6, without reading on to the final verse (verse 13), we would be greatly discouraged, thinking that this is all doom and gloom - there is no hope in this. We must read the word of God carefully - not overlooking verses that we need to read! Thank God for Isaiah 6:13 - There will be a remnant. There will be the holy seed. We must not allowed our thinking to be controlled by majority opinion. What does this mean - majority opinion? It means, "That's the way most people think" - but it doesn't mean that they have truth on their side. Jesus made this very clear to his hearers: "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14). Jesus' ministry was like Isaiah's ministry. Many rejected him, but those who received him found the greatest blessing they could ever find: "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:10-13). In our generation, we need to learn the lessons taught by Isaiah and Jesus. When we learn from them, we will learn to trust in God's promise: "The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this" (Isaiah 37:32) - and we will understand what Paul meant when he said, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:58).