God has grafted His people into His Family, making them branches of His planting. In Isaiah 60:21, He declares that His people shall all be righteous, inheriting the land forever as the branch of His planting, the work of His hands, to His glory. This planting, derived from a Hebrew term meaning to strike in, fix, and be fastened, reflects the act of grafting a branch. Through this union, God ensures their righteousness and eternal inheritance. In Romans 11:16, Paul affirms that if the root is holy, so are the branches. Since Jesus Christ, the righteous Branch and holy Root from the line of Jesse, is holy, the branches joined to Him must also be holy. God the Father has grafted His chosen, whether Israelite or Gentile, into His Family through grace under the New Covenant, contrary to their natural state. However, the rest of Israel was broken off due to unbelief, becoming blinded and hardened, unable to form a grafted union with Christ. God did not spare these natural branches for their disobedience, and He will not spare others if they fall into similar fruitlessness. As the Vinedresser in John 15:1-2, God the Father removes every branch in Christ that does not bear fruit and prunes those that do to produce more. Most Israelite ancestors were branches taken away due to disbelief, but if they repent, they can be grafted back in, as Paul notes in Romans 11:23. The grafted union requires compatibility, alignment, and care to remain active and nourished through God's Spirit, ensuring the branches produce the fruit of self-sacrificial love, becoming holy and pleasing to Him.