Isaiah 65:8,9
"As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, ‘Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a Seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an Inheritor of my mountains: and mine Elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.”
What a beautiful message of hope and restoration we find declared in this text. In these verses, the Sovereign LORD God declares that despite the devastation and destruction that He would bring on the nation of Israel, caused by Israel's sin, there would be a future of hope in God's Grace and Mercy for a promised elect seed, for whom the LORD Jesus would come and pay their sin debt.
The metaphor here is of new wine being found in the cluster, which symbolizes the preservation of a remnant—a particular number of elected sinners that God would preserve and keep from destruction, for His Name's sake, and not because of anything inherently good in them. God promises to bless this remnant, bringing them into a prosperous future, contrasting the judgment that had fallen on the reprobate nation of Israel because of its idolatry. These verses reflect God’s Grace and the Hope of restoration for His people, for whom the LORD Jesus would come into the world to earn and establish a righteousness satisfactory to God's law and justice, and thereby would be saved from eternal condemnation.
1. It is a blessed remnant.
No matter how rotten the cluster is, because there is a blessing in it, God does not condemn the whole. How important is the word “blessing” or “blessed” to those that the LORD has purposed to save? Our LORD said in Matthew 25:34, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” There is no good inherently in any sinner. All the goodness is in God, who has purposed to bless a select remnant by His eternal grace and spare them for Christ’s sake, not because of anything good in them.
2. It is a redeemed and justified remnant.
The LORD promised a Seed out of Jacob and an inheritor out of Judah. "Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16). Clearly, Christ is that Seed, and the reason that God did not destroy at that time the entire nation of Israel for its sins. The LORD Jesus Christ is called the Seed of the woman, the Seed of Abraham, the Seed of David, and sprang from Jacob or Israel, and came out of the tribe of Judah. HE is the blessing in the cluster. In HIM are all the divine perfections, and ALL blessings and promises of grace. In HIS blood and righteousness are the pardon, peace, and justification of His people. He is that Seed in whom all the nations of the earth are blessed, and with whom God the Father made that eternal covenant of grace, to save a people from every tribe, nation, and tongue, "of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named" (Ephesians 3:15).
"It's not fair for God to save some, but not others." People have been saying that about election for years. As far as I'm concerned, it's not so much a miracle that God chose to save others as it's a miracle that He chose to save me.