What is the significance of the following prophecies - Isaiah 9:6, 53:3-7, 61:1-2?
Question:
What is the significance of the following prophecies - Isaiah 9:6, 53:3-7, 61:1-2?
Answer:
What wonderful passages to look to in the Old Testament (OT) as they perfectly exemplify the expression that the New Testament (NT) is the OT revealed and the OT is the NT concealed. These passages each speak to the coming glory of the King Messiah and the wonderful revelation of His full and complete humanity and divinity, the torture and meek condition He would assume, and the powerful redemptive message that He would bring forth.
Isaiah 9:6 – This passage speaks specifically to Christ being fully God and fully Man at the same time – this remains a fundamental theological stance that must be adhered to as many have attacked or modified what is perceived to be a conflicting statement. One seems to think one must be Aristotelian (disjunctive choice) in their thought process and state that it is either A or B. However, in this case we must understand the conjunctive choice (Jewish philosophical understanding) that is present and that it can be A and B. The reason we can understand this as we exegete the passage is the reference to “a child is born” and yet we see the terms used to describe that child. Unquestionably, the first 3 terms (Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, and Everlasting Father) have never been applied to humans and are a clear indication of Christ’s deity.
Isaiah 53:3-7 – In this passage…
Theology matters + New Theology in Sneakers radio show.
People often ask me why I care so much about theology. People often slouch back when one expounds on the finer theological details that function as the threads forming the tapestry that is the Gospel. People often sigh when one expresses a heart-felt desire to be a careful handler (exegete) of God’s Word. People often look at theology as a mind draining life sucking emotionally insensitive spiritually detached academic exercise. The objections to theology can be obvious in the acidity of the critiques such as “You are wasting time on the details when they don’t matter so much” or masked in sweetness evidenced in the claims echoed in phrases such as “I rather focus on the love of God”. To each of these groups of people I must humbly and yet confidently submit that theology must be important by definition - after all ‘theology’ is the composite of 2 Greek words meaning the “study of God”. How can one say that studying God is devoid of life when it is the study of the one who is the Source of all life? As St. Jerome so eloquently and simply once said, “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”
I understand the hesitation by some to dive into God’s Word but the fact that we are instructed to live based on the Word of God and that it is God’s revealed truth seems counter intuitive to the apparent desire of those seeking to be closer…
