Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Immanuel

Isaiah 7:10-25
The Lord will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, for before the boy knows enough to reject wrong and choose the tight,  the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
The Lord will bring on you and your people on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah - he will bring the king of Assyria.
Assyria, the Lord's instrument.
Isaiah offers Ahaz a sign that God will keep his promise to save Judah and its line of kings. Ahaz, with false piety, will not ask for one. So Isaiah promises him another sign, a child called 'God with us'. In the immediate future 'God with us' means judgment, though in the long term it will mean blessing.
Why?
Immanuel in Hebrew means 'Gpd is with us'/ The sign seems to have both present and future significance. 1. in the few years it takes for a child conceived now to reach an age when he can choose for himself, Israel and Damascus will cease to be a threat. 2. There will one day be born a child who will truly be 'Immanuel', God with us.
God's word has power and authority, Ahaz refuse to ask sign of the Lord, but God's word  is confirmed. So Isaiah give Ahaz a sign, it means God's judgment Israel. But for long time after Jesus, it means blessing.
Emmanuel means Jesus is born for us. He is our blessing and savior.
God is with us, so we have to be holy either, for God is holy. Jesus come for erase our sins, only with name of Jesus our sins may erase and we may stand before the Lord. The really God with us.
God is with love and justice.
How?
Thanks the Lord and Jesus Christ. God is with us. Emmanuel!

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