“And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.”
Abraham asks again — he will speak to the Lord one more time — what about twenty? God answers: 'For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.' Twenty — two percent of a thousand, a small remnant capable of sparing an entire city. The mercy is extravagant: twenty righteous people in a city of perhaps hundreds of thousands, and the city is spared. The logic of the remnant is not proportional — it is not twenty spared for twenty righteous; it is the whole city spared. Isaiah 6:13 describes a holy seed in a stump that becomes the remnant that preserves the land. The application: do not underestimate the effect of the few righteous on the many. Twenty righteous people in your city, your workplace, your community are enough — by this calculus — to hold back the judgment the many deserve.
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