Bible in one year on 11/3 Isaiah 8-9 by Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce

 Bible in one year on 11/3 Isaiah 8-9

by Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce

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Isaiah Chapter 8   The meaning of the name Maher-ShalalHash-Baz, Isaiah’s second son, is “quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil. Waters of Shiloah (v.6). Siloam was a healing spring in Jerusalem (John9:7) and here typifies God’s help, which Judah was not prepared to accept. Conspiracy. (v.12 Apparently the charge of the Assyrian alliance party against Isaiah, because he advised the people to trust God alone(v.13). the law…the testimony.(v.20) God’s Word, the only absolute and trustworthy standard.

The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said, “ Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.” (8:13-15)

Bind up the testimony and  seal up the law among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel form the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion. When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and , looking upward, will curse their king and their God. They they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness. (8:16-22)

Isaiah chapter 9  Zebulun and Nephtali came under the yoke of Assyria (2Kings15:29). Because Christ would minister and live in Galilee it will be glorious (Matt.4:15-16). Messiah will com as a baby who is born and as a gift from God to be a ruler (Luke1:31-33). His perfections are described as follows: Wonderful Counselor. “Wonderful” regularly mean supernatural (Judg.13:18), so the phrase refers to Messiah as the supernatural Counselor who, at His first coming, brought words of eternal life, and who, when He comes again, will rule with perfect wisdom (Isa.11:2). Mighty God, a term applied to Yahweh (Gen.2:4) in Deut.10:17; Isa.10:21; Jer.32:18, and which predicts the ultimate victory of Messiah over evil. Everlasting Father: Lit., Father of Eternity; Messiah is eternally a Father to His people, guarding, supplying, and caring for their needs. Prince of Peace. The One who brings peace in the fullest sense of wholeness, prosperity, and tranquility. Individuals can now know His peace(Eph.2:13-18), and one day the world will experience it as well (Isa.2:4). The everlasting rule of Messiah on David’s throne awaits the second coming of Christ.(v.7).

The People walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder. (Isaiah 9:2-3).

For to us a child is born to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)   

Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.(Isaiah 9:7).

Bibliography,

Ryrie, Charles C. The Ryrie study Bible (NIV). Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986.