Covenant Continuity and Succession Down through the Generations Throughout Scripture, in Old and New Testament alike, believer’s children are always included in God's covenant, and receive the covenant sign. The purpose of the covenant being extended down through the generations is so that God can accomplish His Gospel, to have an inheritance of nations, His holy kingdom that covers the whole Earth. Without children belonging to the covenant, receiving the covenant sign and admission into the church, and thereby being raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, the Gospel cannot be accomplished on the scale that God promises and intends – for Christ to have an inheritance of nations where kings bring their glory in, etc. And yet the promise of the Gospel is that Christ would inherit nations, that kings of nations will come and worship Him (Isaiah 49, 60, Rev. 21:24, etc.). Without covenant succession, without God’s covenant of grace being passed down from generation to ge...
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