Who's Isaiah talking about?
Prophecy Of The Salvation of God,son of The Mighty. (This is the prophecy) which He foretold concerning The Praised one, The teacher of peace. (The Prophecy) about the time of The one who is The Power of YHWH, The Perfect YHWH, The Owner of all (creation), The one strengthened by YHWH, my King, The Praised One...
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Prophecy is an important dimension of the word of God. In the Gospels is narrated how in several occasions Jesus predicts an event, to persuade his audience that when that event came to happen, they would come to believe in Him. For example, In John 13:18-19 he foretold his betrayal, in John 14:28-29 his departure and return, and in John 16:1-4 the persecution his followers would face. In all this cases, It's mentioned that Jesus foretold all this "so that when it happens you may believe".
According to my study of The book of Isaiah, this book presents several important events and characteristics that would help identify the Messiah. In order of appearance, it's found:
1. In Isa 1 God promised bringing righteousnes and justice
2. In Isa 2 it's foretold that the Nations would come to the temple of YHWH
3. In Isa 6 it's mentioned that after His execution, He would be glorified and seated on the throne, surrounded by cherubs worshipping Him. However the people of Israel would not be able to understand despite of clearly seeing all this happening.
4. Isa 7 indicates that the Messiah would be born from a virgin, a young woman who would not be expected by society to be pregnant.
5. Isa 8 presents the Messiah as Immanuel, God with us, thus indicating that God would dwell within His creation in a way it had not happened before.
6. Isa 9 continues providing more detail. He would be incarnated, as a child given to humanity, and he would be called mighty God, equal to the everlasting Father, and considered to be the Tsar of Peace.
7. Isa 10 promised that we would be freed through Him.
8. Isa 11 says that he would come through the lineage of the family of Jesse, that He would be righteous, that He would be a risen sign that would see no decay, a sign for the Gentiles never reached before by the Jews, who would at the end return to gather the people of Israel.
The list goes on and on...
In fact, in very chapter of the book of Isaiah there are clues brought through prophecy. Promises telling us characteristics of whom He would be for us to identify Him. Some are more evident than others. For example Isa 12:2 says Hineh, El Yeshuati - Behold God is my Yeshua. It is so clear, yet difficult to digest. It's not out of polemics and within continuous scholar discussion.
This also occurs with other passages such as Isa 53, also known as the passage of the suffering servant. In this chapter it is mentioned how the suffering servant would be punished by our transgressions, flogged to pay for our sicknesses but silent like a lamb to be sacrificed. Christianity for centuries has claimed this to clearly indicate this refers about Jesus, given the striking similarities to what the gospels narrate Jesus had to suffer.
However, Orthodox Judaism disputes that in Isaiah 49:3 God clearly said that His Servant is Israel, and therefore Isaiah 53 also refers to Israel. It's not in the scope of this article to debate this in detail. However, after deeply studying the book of Isaiah I was lead by the Spirit to find a key issue. When referring to Israel as a nation, the book of Isaiah makes distinction when talking about the children of Israel or the people of Israel (a group of people) from just talking about Israel (a person). This may seem irrelevant. However, as explained by Dean Thomas Coombs (http://www.bible-codes.org) the bible carries puns in certain passages through the meaning of the names of the characters mentioned through the Bible. These puns are easily understood when looking at the significance, the meaning of the name of a character.
In especific Israel, as described in The Gesenius The Strongs Hebrew lexicons (http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3478&t=KJV), the meaning of this name comes from 2 roots: Sara and El. That's how it's concluded that Israel means "Prince God", "The Prevalent God" or "The Warrior God". When reading with special attention through the chapters of Isaiah it can be concluded that "Prince God" is indeed Yeshua HaMashiach.
To close, I'd like to start with the beginning of Isaiah. Isaiah 1:1 reads in the NIV "The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Juda". When looking at the meaning of each word, a parallel, a pun message is found:
It's just like The Holy Spirit was embedding this second meaning through the message as a beacon. a beacon to guide us and to give us understanding that this magnificent book was talking about How The Son would interact with us through the History of Humanity. And as such, we can see that though there are promises already fulfilled, there are others which are yet to be fulfilled. Some of those are strikingly consistent with the prophecies given to other prophets in the old and New Testament.
* malke yehudah is indeed a possesive construct form in Hebrew, and the traditional translation is by no means mistaken. However, it's also possible to translate as
a) My praised King if looked at the Hebrew without the vowels, in which was the original version of the Book of Isaiah written
B) Psalm 59:10 is translated as "my God", though it could also considered a construct chain. Evidence of this use among Hebrews is that the Septuagint version translated it as "my God" disregarding the construct chain.
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