Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

From Background Notes [BN] for November 24^th & 25^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Few citizens of Judah, as they reviewed the list in Isaiah 1:1, would have been terribly impressed by the cast of kings in recent memory.

So why should this next “holy seed,” born in the future, offer a different outcome than the one they have already known? In the short-run, the little prophecy pertained to a newly born prince, probably Hezekiah, born to king Ahaz, on whose shoulders would rest the immediate future of God’s people. Though his life was far from perfect, yet he ruled at a time of national crisis, and witnessed the great Assyrian Empire pull back from total conquest in 701 after Hezekiah’s fervent prayer and Yahweh’s “terrible swift sword” (see Isaiah 37:36-38).  [BN, 3]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am