Unto Us a Child Is Given, Part 2, The Child
Scripture quotes are from biblegateway.com, NKJV. Whenever LORD is all caps, the actual Hebrew is the name of God, usually pronounced and spelled Yahweh or Jehovah in English. When written Lord, the word is Adonai, meaning Lord, our Lord, or my Lord. "Mary, did you know t hat your Baby Boy will calm the storm with His hand? Did you know t hat your Baby boy has walked where angels trod? When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God?" Lyrics by Clay Aiken I highly recommend reading Part 1 before proceeding to this post. In that post, we reviewed the groundwork leading up to the amazing Isaianic prophecy in Isaiah 9 of the Old Testament. We saw that in the late 8th century BC, King Pekah of northern Israel conspired with King Rezin of neighboring Syria to attack King Ahaz of Judah. In fact, the Syrian troops were gathering in central Israel, referred to as Ephraim. This intelligence put all of Judah into a panic. The prophet Isaiah met King Ahaz on th...