Isaiah 9:6-7 |
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6. "For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. 7. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." |
Messianic Biblical position as written by Shalach Ministries: |
Isaiah 9:6-7. In order to understand these passages we must read Isaiah 9:1-2 and determine what Isaiah is saying to his people, Israel. "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." Isaiah prophesied the spiritual darkness that would exist in the land of Israel when the Messiah would come. This spiritual darkness was to be less than when the land was first permitted of God to be judged by Syria under Benhadad in the reign of Baasha (I Kings 15:20), and the worse invasion of Israel by Hazael (II Kings 10:32-33). As such, Isaiah reported that when the Messiah would come people who walked in darkness would see great light, the understanding of "God's Plan of Salvation". Isaiah 9:2 is quoted in Matthew 4:14-16, "That
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias (Isaiah) the
prophet, saying, The land of Zebulon and the land of Nephthalim, by the
way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which
sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and
shadow of death light is sprung up." |