Four Names. One Savior

When Jack Glotzer was a young Jewish boy in Poland, he never imagined how quickly ordinary life could collapse. His earliest memories are simple ones—walking to school with friends, his mother baking bread, his father running a small business, the rhythms of a community where everyone knew each other. Life felt predictable. Safe. Normal.

But in 1939, that normal world ended almost overnight.

Jack remembers standing on a street corner as German soldiers marched into town. People saying to the likes of, “Something terrible is coming,” but no one could comprehend the depth of the darkness that was about to fall.

Within weeks, freedoms evaporated. Jewish families were stripped of their rights. Shops were confiscated. Schools closed. Friends disappeared without explanation. Jack expressed that it felt like the world was shrinking—every day a little tighter, a little darker, a little more terrifying.

Eventually, Jack and his family were forced into a ghetto. He remembered the walls—not just the literal ones that fenced them in, but the invisible walls of fear, hunger, and uncertainty. Food was scarce. Disease spread easily. The streets were filled with the sound of boots, barking orders, and the cries of people who had lost everything.

Jack said nights were the most frightening. The ghetto would grow eerily silent, as if even the darkness was holding its breath. Families whispered prayers. Children cried. Rumors spread of people being taken away to camps. Jack would lie awake listening, wondering if his family would survive until morning.

He later described it as a life lived under a shadow so heavy it felt impossible to imagine light ever breaking through again.

And yet—something remarkable persisted: hope.

Jack’s mother, though exhausted and terrified, kept telling him stories from Scripture. She reminded him that their people had known suffering before. That God had delivered before. That darkness never gets the last word. Even when everything in front of them said otherwise, she would whisper things like, “We will not stop hoping. We belong to the God who sees.”

Jack watched unimaginable evil unfold. He saw neighbors carried away. He witnessed cruelty no child should ever see. He endured ghettos, hiding, escapes, and the constant threat of death. But through all of it, he held onto the words of his mother and the stubborn belief that somehow—some way—God’s light would break in.

Against all odds, Jack survived. He lived to tell his story, to bear witness to the darkness of those years—and the miraculous grace that carried him through them.

Looking back, Jack said the thing he remembers most is not just the suffering, but the feeling of waiting—longing—for a light he could not yet see. Living in a world where evil strutted confidently, where leaders were corrupt, where violence ruled the day, where hope seemed naïve, and where people wondered if God had gone silent.

Jack’s experience is not identical to ancient Israel’s—but the feeling is quite the same.

In the days of King Ahaz, God’s people lived in a world full of political turmoil, spiritual darkness, moral collapse, fear, and oppression. Their king—like the tyrants of Jack’s youth—led them deeper into sin, injustice, and idolatry. Their enemies closed in. Their children were sacrificed. Their faith flickered like a candle in a violent storm.

They too wondered: Has God forgotten us? Will we survive this? Is there any hope?

And into that suffocating darkness, Isaiah spoke a prophecy that sounded almost unbelievable:

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light… For to us a Child is born…” Isaish 9:2a, 6a

The Bible Knowledge Commentary f. The Future Deliverance of the Nation (9:1–7)

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As we look this morning in Isaiah 9:6-7, we see this unbelievable take place. To come into fruition. Into the person of Jesus.

In verse 6, which we are going to spend the majority of our time on, there are four couplets, four pairs of two words linked together, a mingling of Supernatural and Natural. Of God and Man.

1. Wonderful Counselor—Jesus guides us in our confusion.

Wonderful: Ability to work supernatural acts of God

John (7 signs)

Blind to see, lame to walk, and dead to be raised.

Counselor: Refers to giving wise advice

Jesus is Wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:21–24 has Isaiah 29:14 in it“For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

“The Father can speak his creation into existence through his Word, only to speak a saving Word to make a fallen creation new, because there never was a time when God was without his Word. Worded by the Father from all eternity, the Word can then, at the proper time, become incarnate to reveal the Father to us in history. Now that is wisdom.” Matthew Barrett

Look to Jesus.

What are you facing right now? Marrital struggles? Seek Jesus. Career struggles or don’t know what you are to do? Seek Jesus.

2. Mighty God—Jesus breaks our bondage to sin.

Mighty: powerful men who could carry out the day by the power of their military prowess

God: The most common word for Deity.

Infinite power of Jesus.

Revelation 19:11–16 “Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.”

3. Everlasting Father—Jesus heals our deepest wounds.

Everlasting or (Christian Standard Bible) Eternal. Jesus existed eternally before, eternally after.

Eternal Generation:

The Father: Unbegotten

The Son: Begotten

The Spirit: Spirated

Jesus is not created but co-equal with the Father and the Spirit.

John 14:9 “Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”

4. Prince of Peace—Jesus restores our brokenness

Prince: government official

Isaiah 9:6b “and the government shall be upon his shoulder…”

Peace: Eternal Peace.

Peace of snow, hunting.

Philippians 4:6–7 “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Wednesday night Christmas Dinner, Carolyn Trail, Trish Bush, Stephens Ministry, “I can’t explain the peace I have”.

To receive you must come to the place of acknowledging and confessions you’re in need.

By Grace Through Faith, you cannot receive Jesus as the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace unless you, by grace, receive him as Lord and Savior.

“Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who can’t make it on their own. Grace is for all of us.” Philip Yancey – The Jesus I Never Knew

Make it flow more, Citizens of Heaven.

Isaiah 9:7 “Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.”

Exalting Jesus in Isaiah The Kingdom of Christ (Isaiah 9:7)

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Throne of David

Uphold with justice and with righteousness

Philippians 3:20 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,”

wonderful counselor

Mighty god

Everlasting father

Prince of peace