This song is worthy your time
By looking at something as simple as the title “Holy One of Israel” it becomes immediately clear how dangerous and erroneous systems of replacement theology are. God calls Himself Israel’s Holy One primarily when He is either rebuking Israel because of her sin or encouraging Israel that they will have a future after a severe trial that comes because of their sin. Therefore the idea that Israel’s rebellion somehow broke or “re-negotiated” her covenant with YHWH is simply ludicrous. He affirms the covenant when she is most rebellious. To enforce the point, most of the references are in the prophets in passages that have a future fulfillment. In other words, God calls Himself Israel’s God as He anticipates future rebellion, discipline, and restoration that has not yet happened. To say it plainly, He is still Israel’s God even if she does something as horrific as executing His only Son.
Has Israel been unfaithful to God? Absolutely. Did Israel commit the unthinkable sin of executing God in the flesh? Yes, as did the gentiles. Will Israel face future judgment related to her rejection of YHWH? Yes. Has any of that changed God’s identification with His chosen, His election of Israel , and it's place in His sacrificial plan? Clearly not because names matter and they matter to God. Israel’s rejection of Jesus did change certain dynamics related to God’s pursuit of gentiles that will be grafted into Israel’s salvation, but it did not change Israel’s trajectory to it's final covenant destiny, not as a people in-grafted into His presents , but as the unique people whom the gentiles are grafted into. This will require Israel to submit to and embrace Jesus, just as He promised it would. There is no other path of salvation for Israel, but we must remember that the path through Jesus is Israel’s salvation.
"For I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD"
In light of the deep rebellion of both Jew and gentile, the simple conclusion of all this is that we should humble and prostrate ourselves before the Holy One of Israel. Whether Jew or Gentile, the fact that He would chose to be so engaged with rebellious mankind is staggering and should leave us in fear and trembling at the depth of His covenant love. Rather than rewriting those covenants, we should bow low before the God of Israel and live in deep gratitude that He has even given us the option of being joined to those covenants through the blood of His own Son.
Biblical References to the “Holy One of Israel”
‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
Also with the flute I will praise You— And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.
For our shield belongs to the LORD, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward
That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work, That we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it.” (Isaiah 5:19 – A warning to those in Israel living in an ungodly way.)
Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 5:24 – A warning of God’s judgment against His people.)
The Holy One Of Israel In Song
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