No 15

(The book of Isaiah)

The Lord used the book of Isaiah for a multitude of prophecies.  Some are about the Messiahship & Divinity of Jesus Christ, some about the death & resurrection of Jesus Christ, some about the Millennium Kingdom; there are even some for us today. Here are some of the more familiar ones: 

1) Isaiah 7:14  “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” 

2) Isaiah 9:6 “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, ThePrince of Peace.” 

3) Isaiah 11:6  “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” 

4) Isaiah 40:3“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” 

5) Isaiah 40:31  “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” 

6) Isaiah 55:11  “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” 

There is, of course, the whole 53rd chapter of Isaiah that speaks of the suffering and shame of the cross that Jesus endured for us. In Jewish synagogues, there are scheduled readings from their Old Testament and they usually cover the whole Bible in a year – Isaiah 53 is not included in these readings.  In the Jewish Bible, when we come to Isaiah 9:6 (above), the text is transliterated from Hebrew.  It looks something like this: “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 Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom”.  You see, the Jews believe in a Messiah; they just don’t believe that He is God.