Isaiah 7:14, âTherefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.âÂ
This verse is perhaps one of the most crucial parts of Scripture about the coming Messiah. Isaiah is writing about 700 years before the birth of Christ. The most important decision anyone will ever make is, âWhom do men say that I am?â This decision is an eternal decision. If Jesus is God, then we must do what He says.
The context of this passage is preparing for doom. Ahaz, the great-grandson of Uzziah, King of Judah, was being threatened by Rezin, King of Syria and Pekah, King of Israel. They were coming to destroy Judah. This would do away with the promise of a king to sit on the throne of David.Â
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https://mybs.in/2YSgf8u Christmas 2020 takes place against the most miserable time in living memory, when Good Governance has been at a premium pretty much all round the world. Anyone remember Good Governance Day? It falls today, the seventh since Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the first year of India s first Hindu majoritarian regime, hit on the idea of replacing this Christian festival with an anniversary to commemorate the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary. That was a dismaying announcement mainly for senior government servants. The festive season holiday was made a working day for them with a slate of suggestions from the Prime Minister’s Office on what bureaucrats could do to celebrate Vajpayee’s 90th birthday (visit sanitation projects, for example). There was a frisson of unrest when it was suggested that schools should also be opened to observe birthday celebrations (for the former PM, not the man from Gal