Isaiah 7:1 – 8:10 Ray Losey, MAR
BEHOLD, GOD IS WITH US!
WITH WHOM SHALL WE TRUST
GOD OR THE NATIONS?
Isaiah 7:1 – 8:10
Introduction
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14-15).
Though many people are very familiar with this prophecy and it’s connect with the
Christmas story, very few people are familiar with the context in which it was originally given.
This prophecy is found in Isaiah 7. Chapters 7-39 are united around the theme of trust. This theme is developed by a contrast between trust in the nations and trust in
God. Chapters 7-12 provide a historical introduction to the unit. Isaiah’s prophecy is rooted and grows out of history. So much so that prophetic teaching is meaningless apart from an adequate understanding of its historical context.
If Israel is ever to become the servant nation, through whom God chose to manifest
Himself to the world then she must learn that God can be trusted, whereas the nations cannot. The historical record clearly shows that Israel failed. (Israel and her kings placed their trust in Assyria and Babylon, who would first save them and then destroy them). No human king of Israel was found worthy. But, had God’s plan failed. No! The LORD would raise up from among them a royal child of divine origin, who would grow to trust in God alone and learn obedience, even to the point of death. It is through this “Suffering
Servant” that a small remnant of Israel will be saved by faith alone and found worthy to serve Him. It is through this small remnant that would become a nation of servants that would then bring the message of salvation to all the nations.
In Isaiah We Learn that:
It is God alone with whom we must trust.
It is through a child that deliverance shall come.
It is through weakness that strength is gained.
It is through judgment that salvation is achieved.
It is through suffering and death that life in obtained.
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Over and against the power of the nations stand a group of children, helpless and innocent that deliverance shall come. These children, found in 7:1-9:6, are signs of God’s presence. They are a sign of salvation or judgment. Or better yet, salvation through judgment, “righteousness through chastisement” All discipline yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Hebrews 12:11). If one recognizes the children as the sign of God’s presence and work, then His presence brings peace, strength, and prosperity. If one does not believe, then God presence becomes a terror, only judgment and great loss is the result,
“for it is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of an anger God” (Hebrews 10:31).
“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of the fire which will consume the adversaries” (Hebrews 10:26-27).
“Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of
Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not conquer it. When it was reported to the house of David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake with the wind.
– Ruled in Judah for 52 years (800-748 BC). Began his reign when he was 16 years old. The historical record is found in 2 kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles
26.
“He did right in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God prospered him” (2 Chronicles 26:4-5).
“His fame extend to Egypt and he “became very strong” (2 Chronicles 26:8).
“Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places” (2 Kings 15:4)
“But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense” (2 Chronicles 26:16).
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As a result the LORD struck him with leprosy while he was still in the temple:
“King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death; and he lived in a separate house, being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of the LORD” (2 Chronicles
26:21).
B.
– Ruled Judah for 16 years (748-732 BC) Began his reign when he was
25 years old. The historical record is found in 2 Kings 15:32-38; and 2 Chronicles 27.
“He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people continued
acting corruptly” (2 Chronicles 27:2).
“Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places” (2 Kings 15:35).
“So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the LORD his
God” (2 Chronicles 27:6).
At the end of Jotham reign it says this,
“In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah the son of
Remaliah against Judah” (2 Kings 15:37).
Why might this be? Had not God had commanded:
“…you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their
high places” (Numbers 33:52)
High places were elevated or hilltop sites dedicated to worship of pagan gods. They were often connected with licentiousness and immorality. The only high place that the LORD had designated where He would accept sacrificial worship was at Shiloh (where the tabernacle was located) or at Mt. Zion (where the temple was located). The law forbade sacrificial worship elsewhere and declared dire consequences if they disobeyed.
“Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, then
I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins… 'I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you. 'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries
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Ahaz – Ruled Judah for 16 years (732-716). Began his reign when he was 20 years old. The historical record is found 2 Kings 16; 2 Chronicles 28.
“…he did not do right in the sight of the LORD as David his father had done. But he walked in the ways of the kings of
Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals. Moreover, he burned incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his
sons in fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel. He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills and under every green tree” (2 Chronicles 28:1-4).
“…he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was
very unfaithful to the LORD” (2 Chronicles 28:19)
“In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to anger” (2 Chronicles 28:25).
Because of King Ahaz the LORD humbled Judah,
“Wherefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties. For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah
120,000 in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son… The sons of Israel carried away captive of their brethren 200,000 women, sons and daughters; and they took also a great deal of spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria”
(2 Chronicles 28:5-8)
At that time the prophet of the LORD in Israel, named Obed, urged Israel not to subjugate their own brothers to servitude but to return the 200,000 women and children back to Judah, reminding them that they too had sinned greatly against the
LORD their God, and so they too would not incur the burning anger of the Lord. With this they complied completely returning them to Judah, clothed and feed (2 Chronicles
28:8-15).
God also sent Moab and the Philistines to attack Judah. They carried away many captives, capture many cites of Judah and settled in them (2 Chronicles 28:17-18). Even after all this Ahaz descends even further into idolatry:
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“Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD. For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him” (2
Chronicles 28:22-23)
He even had the priest Urijah build an altar patterned and modeled after an Assyrian altar found in Damascus which he had seen, and had it place in the temple of the LORD.
“Moreover, when Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, he cut the utensils of the house of God in pieces; and he closed the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles
28:24-25)
It was at this time that Syria and Ephraim waged war with Ahaz a second time,
“Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to
Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him” (2
Kings 16:5).
It was even more disconcerting to Ahaz when heard what they were planning,
“Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,
"Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it, (Isaiah 7:5-6)
It was at this time, that King Ahaz sent messengers or (more likely) was just about to send messengers to King Tilgath-pilneser of Assyria for help (2 Chronicles 28:16), and when he was out overseeing the defense of Jerusalem at the upper pool, that God sent the prophet Isaiah with a message of His own, “have no fear” of Ephraim and
Syria, and their plans to overthrow the house of David, “it shall not come to pass”.
This promise was to be confirmed in the sign of three little children.
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Three Children
Shear-jashub - “A remnant shall return”
Immanuel – “God is with us”
Maher-shalal-hash-baz - “quick to the spoil”
“Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shearjashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller's field, and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 'Because Aram, with
Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying, "Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it," thus says the Lord GOD: " It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass. "For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people), and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you surely shall not
last." (Isaiah 7:3-9).
Shear-jashub “a remnant shall return” was both a positive and negative sign to
Ahaz. The child who had been named before the coming events foresaw a destruction which would leave but a remnant, that is, a small number of people. This also meant
“only a remnant”, not total annihilation. “It is entirely possible that Ahaz now dreaded total eradication. To that, Isaiah son says, “No, there will be a remnant of Judah
(and the house of David) preserved from destruction.” 1
With a biting metaphor Isaiah shows Ahaz that he has nothing to fear from the kings of Israel and Syria. They are only small burning ends of a stick about to go out where a bonfire had been. Ephraim and Syria had arrogantly announced their plan to annex Judah into their kingdoms. But now the Lord God, the Sovereign King of all the earth announces his plan. “It will not come to pass”. And their capitals will remain where they are and that within 65 years they will not even exist as a nation, for they will scattered among the nations.
1 John N. Oswalt, “The Book of Isaiah, Chapters 1-39”; Errdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1986, p. 200.
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“The Israelites remained in Samaria, and kept up the forms of a civil community, and were not finally carried away until the time of Esarhaddon, is evident; compare 2
Chronicles 34:6-7,33; 35:18; 2 Kings 23:19-20. Manasseh, king of Judah, was taken captive by the king of Assyria's captains (2 Chronicles 33:2) in the twenty-second year of his reign; that is, sixty-five years from the second year of Ahaz, when this prophecy is supposed to have been delivered. And it is also supposed that at this time
Esarhaddon took away the remains of the people in Samaria, and put an end to the kingdom, and put in their place the people who are mentioned in Ezra 4:3.” 2
“The final statement in this verse sums up the whole issue. Unless Ahaz comes to the point where he can believe in God’s sovereignty to the extent of entrusting himself and his nation to God, he is doomed to live in the shaky, panicky condition he now experiences (v. 2). He need not enter into the terribly risky covenant with
Assyria, if he will but take firm hold of the covenant which God offers Assyria will not over the security Ahaz wishes. Only through trusting in the present and ultimate veracity of God is any real security possible.” 3
B. The Sign of Immanuel – “God is with us” – Isaiah 7:10-25
Still knowing the unbelieving heart of Ahaz the God offers him to ask for a sign, any sign, even a difficult one, in order to confirm the Word of the LORD.
“Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, "Ask a sign for yourself from the
LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven” (Isaiah 7:10-11).
But Ahaz refuses, “Ahaz said, ‘I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!’ (7:12)
His mind is already made up. He is not interested in any evidence. He’s made up his mind and doesn’t want to be confuse the facts. He has concluded that his only hope is an alliance with Assyria. Ahaz placed his faith in his own quick thinking and diplomatic skills. However, his scheme will back fire on him. God will use Assyria to destroy
Ephraim and Syria alright, but now Assyria will threaten to engulf Judea.
At this point, God’s patience had run out,
“Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?” (7:13)
2 (Barnes' Notes, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)
3 Oswalt, p. 202.
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Some commentators see this as a major turning point in the fortunes of the house of David. This resolute act of unfaith by Ahaz signaled an abandonment of God by the dynasty and opened the door for its eventual destruction.
Application: Even if one is placed into a place of rulership merely by birth, like King
Ahaz, this does not exclude him or her from being removed from their place of service and blessing, and being replaced with another,
“Although Ahaz, through his distrust of God, has brought the strictly human dynasty to an end, God is still with David and Judah, as finally evidenced in the divine-human Messiah, Immanuel”.
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Even though there would be two attempts to reform the nation still to come those attempts would fail - Were speaking of course about King Hezekiah, Ahaz son, and
Josiah, the grandson of Hezekiah. Later, the LORD would curse the line of David stating that no physical descendent of Jehoiachin would prosper sitting on the throne of David (Jeremiah 22:24, 28; 37:1), officially ending the rule of David, humanly speaking. The only hope is in God’s eventual miraculous provision of a child born of a virgin.
Next week will discover:
Who is this child?
Who is this woman?
What significance is the birth of this child to King Ahaz?
With whom did King Ahaz trust?
What is the significance of this child to us?
With whom do you trust?
4 Ibid. p. 206.
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The Sign of Immanuel - PART
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14-15).
Notice:
- It is the “Lord” – Adonia- “Sovereign”; “Master”; “Supreme Ruler”. Contrast with
“LORD” – Yahweh – “I Am who I Am”.
– Ahaz, the people, the world.
- A sign is something that points to, or represents, something larger or more important than itself. It is often linked with "wonders. The most important use of the word is in reference to the acts of God. They are given to strength one’s faith and are evidence of divine presence in that which it points.
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God multiplied miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt as mighty acts of judgment upon the idolatrous Egyptians (Exodus 7:3). The plagues of Egypt were signs of God’s presence
- a sign to the Egyptians of His judgment and a sign to Israel of her deliverance.
“But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land. "I will put a division between My people and your people.
Tomorrow this sign will occur” (Exodus 8:22-23).
“Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods; for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight” (Joshua 24:16-17).
This is a sign that God will protect and save the nation from her enemies, and to preserve the Davidic line. This is what He must do! He must keep His Word!
“The LORD also declares to you that the LORD will make a house for you. "When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. "I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My
5 Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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“Behold” – Used to demands one’s attention; to indicate the importance of what is about to be said.
“a virgin” – a young woman of marriageable age. She was a woman who was at the time of this prophecy, unmarried and a still a virgin. She is also a woman yet to be born who would bear a son who would deliver all of Israel once and for all.
In Ahaz day, it only means that the young woman was “a virgin” at the time this prophecy was given not that she remained so at the child’s birth, as it was with Mary.
“The presence of a transcendent and holy God with us may well mean weal and woe together. To the extent that we are dependent upon Him, his presence results in blessing; but to the extent that we refuse to depend upon him, his presence is an embarrassment and a curse. Both realities are implicit in his presence”.
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The initial or secondary reference was during Ahaz’ lifetime, but the primary reference was to the coming Messiah.
Illustration: From Isaiah’s and Ahaz’ perspective they only saw the initial fulfillment of the prophecy. From our perspective we can see two fulfillments, the initial and the primary.
This is how much of prophecy works. Prophecies concerning the Messiah’s coming are fulfilled in two stages. From the Old Testament perspective they seem to be fulfilled together. From the
New Testament perspective we can see that they are fulfilled at two different times. (Compare Isaiah 61:1-2 and Luke 4:14-21).
6 Oswalt, p. 209.
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Who is this young woman and who is this son to be born that was a sign of God’s deliverance and chastisement? According to Oswalt, “It is extremely difficult to identify the child of Ahaz’ time.” 7
#1 – Ahaz’ wife and child, namely, Hezekiah: God was going to preserve the line of David through Ahaz’ son.
Problem: Ahaz already had several children of his own. Some of them had been offer as child sacrifices (2 Chron. 28:3). And his son Hezekiah was already six years old at this time. Hezekiah was not a child yet to be born of a woman who was still a virgin at that time.
#2 – An unnamed and unknown woman to us, but a woman know to both Ahaz and Isaiah, but unrelated to them.
#3 – Isaiah’s wife and child –
Problem: Isaiah already had a son named, “Shear-jashub” (7:3). A second son of
Isaiah’s would not have been born of a woman who was still a virgin at that point in time, or was unmarried but was of marriageable age.
Solution: Isaiah’s first wife has died. Isaiah then remarries a young unmarried woman and she bears him a son.
Therefore, the virgin then is a young woman of marriageable age and soon to be the prophet Isaiah’s second wife. The son she bears is both Immanuel and Mahershalal-hash-baz. They are both one and the same, for both of them are signs pointing to God’s deliverance of Judah from their enemies by Assyria.
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Ibid, p. 212
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1. Comparison Between “Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14-16) and “Maher-shalal-hash-baz”
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(Isaiah 8:1-4). They are One and the Same.
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold,
“So I approached a virgin will be with child and bear
a son, and she will call His name Immanuel .... the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son.
Then the LORD said to me, ‘
Maher-shalal-hash-baz ;
Name him for before the boy knows how to cry
For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good , the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken ” (Isaiah 7:14-16) out 'My father' or 'My mother the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria
8:1-4)
,'
" (Isaiah
2. The Sign of “Immanuel” and “Maher-shalal-hash-baz” has a “Double Implication”
There is one of hope and confidence and another of impending doom. The fulfillment of the signs ends with the same results – desolation and deportation.
The same agency that plunders and depopulates Syria and Ephraim will depopulate and bring devastation to Judah – Assyria.
“As with 7:18-25, the same sign which is a testimony to God’s faithfulness is also a word of destruction to those who will not believe. God’s presence does not mean automatic blessing to his people despite their unbelief. The fact of his presence may make them even more subject to the powers of judgment, delighting over the spoliation of her enemies, learns to her horror that Mahershalal-hash-baz applies to her as well as them”.
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8 Oswalt, p. 224 .
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Ahaz does not trust the Lord, nor heed the warnings of disbelief and sends messengers anyway with treasures from the house of their God to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria asking for help.
“So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son; come up and deliver me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me." Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria” (2 Kings 16:7-8).
About three years later, when Immanuel / Maher-shalal-hash-baz was of the age to know the right from wrong, Assyria invades Syria and Ephraim and defeats them.
“So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against
Damascus and captured it, and carried the people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death” (2 Kings 16:9)
But, the king of Assyria does not stop in Ephraim, he continues on into Judah with devastating effect on the cities and the country.
“So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him” (2 Chronicles 28:20-21).
1. Assyria as a Razor – Isaiah 7:18-25
Result: Vineyards are turned into briars and thornbushes, and farm land is turned into hunting ground.
2. Assyria as a Flood – Isaiah 8:5-10
Result: Judah will be up to their neck with Assyrians. In other words “Judah will be up to their neck with God.”
3. It is the Sovereign Lord who Brings Judgment - a. God commissions Assyria as the rod of His anger against Judah.
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“Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hands is My indignation, I send it against a godless nation and commission it against the people of My fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.” (Isaiah 10:5-6).
“Isaiah stress that it is the Sovereign Lord who brings the judgment (7:7, 14,
17, 18, 20). Assyria does not inundate God’s land in spite of God. No, if she comes, it is because God brings her.” 9 b. Later the Lord promised that when the He is finished with Judah He will punish
Assyria.
“So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness." (Isaiah 10:12).
In 732 BC, the Lord sends His prophet, Isaiah, to Ahaz, king of Judah in order to authenticate His Word through a sign that a young woman of marriageable age would conceive and bear a son and by the time the boy was able to distinguish between right and wrong the two nations that threatened to overthrow Judea and the Davidic dynasty would be destroyed. This sign was fulfilled in 729 BC.
The initial fulfillment of the sign was not the ultimate fulfillment. The ultimate fulfillment is not found merely in the development of history, but somehow as a Person.
This sign of Immanuel also points to a time when another young woman, a virgin, who would bear a son of kingly descent. But this time she would be conceived by supernatural means, for the child would be of supernatural origin. The young woman and the child(s) named,
Immanuel and Maher-shalal-hash-baz, born in Ahaz’ day are types that points to the antitype, the coming Son of David that is Jesus, 10 “for He will save His people from their sins.
Now all this took placed to fulfill…” the sign of “Immanuel”, “God with us”. (Matthew 1:18-
25)
“God with us” is the Word, that is, God who became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14).
The types of the coming Messiah find their fulfillment historically in the person and ministry of Christ. The types are foreshadowed as one coming but are fulfilled historically as two comings – salvation and judgment, or better yet “salvation through judgment”.
9 Oswalt, p. 226.
10 [ Jesus would be the physical descendent of David through Nathan and the legal descendent through Solomon].
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A type is “a figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, as an event in the
Old Testament foreshadows another in the New Testament. Types generally find their fulfillment in the person and ministry of Christ…” 11
Immanuel came, died, rose again, (secured salvation for all who believe) and has ascended into heaven, and promised to return. His physical presence is at this time is in heaven sitting at the right hand of the Father. For those who believe in Him He has given us His Spirit, for
“I am with you always”.
God’s presence is still a blessing to those do what is right in the sight of the Lord, and a terror to those who do not (see Hebrews).
“For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope”.
(Romans 15:4)
Have you trusted in the nations like king Ahaz did? Are you a lover of the world or the things in the world? Do you trust the world’s teachings, practices, habits and customs? Do you trust God’s Written Word, or in some new word of knowledge? Do you remain in His
Word? Are you Christ’s disciple? Or are you carried away with varied and strange doctrines?
(Hebrews 13:9) Do you believe that God created the heaven and the earth in just six days as plainly stated in Scripture (Genesis 1; Exodus 20:11)? Or do you trust in natural, so-called modern science, which denies not only the presence of God in the world, but His very existence. Or do you attempt to compromise the two? Do you trust modern notions of situational ethics, and political correctness or so you remain true to traditional morality.
Will you give into the pressure of those in the church who say it’s a new day and it’s time to do church a different way? Where and what are your high places? Do you worship idols? (1
John 5:21) Or will you tear them down yourself before God comes and removes them and you from your place of service?
, Assyria withdrew from Judah and marched to Babylon after hearing of disturbances in that land. A remnant remained and the house of David was saved.
, the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem and Judea and made slaves out of the remaining inhabitance. A remnant remained and is dispersed around the world.
11 Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright. (c) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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, many Jews have returned and live in Judea / Israel, but not securely. They are under constant threat of invasion.
the King of the North, know as “the Assyrian” will invaded Israel, and a child born in Bethlehem will deliver Israel from “the Assyrian”,
“Now muster yourselves in troops, daughter of troops; They have laid siege against us;
With a rod they will smite the judge of Israel on the cheek. ‘But as for you, Bethlehem
Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.’
Therefore He will give them up until the time when she who is in labor has borne a child.
Then the remainder of His brethren will return to the sons of Israel. And He will arise and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the
LORD His God. And they will remain, because at that time He will be great to the ends of the earth. This One will be our peace. When “the Assyrian” invades our land, when he tramples on our citadels, we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men”. (Micah 5:1-5)
And at that time “all Israel will be saved”! (Romans 11:26)
Will You Be Saved? Will Your Works Endure?
we will all stand before Immanuel, in His very presence, to give an answer for our life. If we have faith alone in Christ alone, then our salvation is secure. If we have lived for Him and served Him to the end of our life, then our position in His Kingdom will endure. His presence will be a blessing. If we have never trusted in Christ, then His presence will be a terror and we will never enter into the Kingdom. If we have trusted in
Him but did not persevere and serve Him in this life, we will be ashamed and receive no honor or recognition from Him. Neither we will be allowed serve Him in the Kingdom.
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