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The holy nation, House of Israel includes infants, the same terms apply to Christians in NT

Jesus was send to the House of Israel to save “His” people as the prophecies of old proclaimed. ‘His’ people were those of the house of Israel from the age of 8 days old. All of the prophecies for Israel included all of the House of Israel. In not even one instance of the New Testament or the Old does anyone mention that children or infants will no longer be part of the House of Israel, or the covenant of God with Israel, or that only adults and those reaching the age of reason will be part of the House of Israel from then on. But the Bible clearly points out that the same House of Israel with the infants and children is still the house of Israel and part of God’s New Covenant.

 

Ex:19:6: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.  These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

 

De:14:2: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

 

1Pe:2:9: But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

 

Joh:11:52: And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. (holy nation)

 

Lu:1:33: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (or Israel) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

 

Children of believers or of the House of Israel, the holy nation, the Kingdom of David, in the Old Testament was part of God’s covenant from 8days old. The ‘house of Israel’ which the Lord Jesus came to redeem, it of course includes children as well from the age of 8 days old. The New Covenant the Lord makes is also with the ‘house of Israel’.  Not even once does the Bible say that children will no longer be part of the ‘house of Israel’ or of the Kingdom of David, or of God’s covenant with Abraham and the New covenant with the house of Israel.

 

Lu:20:9: Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. Lu:20:10: And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. Lu:20:11: And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. Lu:20:12: And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Lu:20:13: Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. Lu:20:14: But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. Lu:20:15: So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? Lu:20:16: He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

 

The same kingdom is taken and given to new husbandmen. The same subjects as well, both children and adults.

 

Isa:5:7: For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

 

Ga:4:4: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, Ga:4:5: To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Ga:4:6: And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Ga:4:7: Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

 

Ac:15:16: After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

 

Ac:2:39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Ac:7:17: But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

 

Ac:13:32: And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

 

Ac:26:6: And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:Ac:26:7: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

 

Lu:1:32: He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

 

Lu:1:69: And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

 

1Ki:9:5: Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promisedto David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

 

Ac:2:30: Therefore (King David) being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

 

Ro:10:21: But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

 

Ro:11:11: I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Ro:11:12: Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

 

Ro:11:25: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. Ro:11:26: And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: Ro:11:27: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. Ro:11:28: As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

 

Eze:36:22: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. Eze:36:23: And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.  Eze:36:24: For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Eze:36:25: Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Eze:36:26: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Eze:36:27: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

 

Joe:2:27: And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. Joe:2:28: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: Joe:2:29: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joe:2:30: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. Joe:2:31: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Joe:2:32: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

 

Isa:44:1: Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Isa:44:2: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.Isa:44:3: For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

 

Ac:2:36: Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

 

Heb:8:8: For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Heb:8:10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Jer:2:4: Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Jer:31:31: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jer:31:33: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jer:33:14: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

Jer:33:17: For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

 

Eze:28:25: Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

 

Eze:34:30: Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

 

Eze:39:22: So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

 

Eze:39:25: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

 

Eze:39:29: Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

 

Eze:43:7: And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places

 

Eze:43:7: And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places

 

Zec:8:13: And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

 

M't:10:6: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

 

M't:15:24: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

 

Ac:3:25: Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Ac:3:26: Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

 

He called the Gentiles to Him bur still looks for the old Israel to return to Him.

 

Isa:56:3: Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.Isa:56:4: For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;Isa:56:5: Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.Isa:56:6: Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;Isa:56:7: Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.Isa:56:8: The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

 

He came to save the lost of the House of Israel , but later declared or commanded to baptize all nations, children born of believers are a part of His holy nation, His inheritance.

 

Christ Reigns!!