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One dark night, Harry Hawk was talking with Harriet, his mate.
"I'm really hungry.
I'm going out to find a mouse."
Harriet replied, "It's really dark out there.
You sure?"
Harry shrugged.
"No harm trying."
Harriet looked away.
"Whatever."
Harry flew off into the dark night.
Hours later, the sun began to rise.
Harriet saw Harry flying back with a juicy beak-full of blood.
"Wow!
Where'd you find that feast?
"Harry pointed with a wing.
"See that tree over there?" "Yeah" Harry said, "I didn't."
In 8th C. BC, Isaiah's world was also dark.
God called him ~ 742BC, when Uzziah died.
He served through the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah- ~64 yr.
Assyria & Babylon were battling to dominate his world.
He watched nation after nation fall.
Assyria began to rise, & war ripped Isaiah's world apart.
Galilee (N Israel) was 1st to feel Assyria's lash.
Hope faded.
Their outlook kept growing darker.
Finally, during Hezekiah's reign, in 722BC Israel (N kingdom) fell to Assyria.
Their people?
Dispersed.
Isaiah then saw Judah come into Assyria's crosshairs.
Judah's hope also began to fade.
Isaiah kept on prophesying till ~ 681BC.
Dark times were getting darker.
But God still remembered His people.
Let's look at Isa 9:2, 6-7.
2aThe people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
It's future.
But Isaiah sees it as already done.
A great light will someday dawn into his dark world.
In the midst of war...
In the midst of darkness... Isaiah sees a new age.
The last days.
The Messiah's age.
What will it look like?
God told him in Isa 2:1-2, 4. The eyes of all nations will turn to Jerusalem.
A new world government.
The KoG, & world peace.
But now?
Isaiah's world is as dark, spiritually, as it is politically.
God indicts them in Isa 1:2, 4, 12-17.
They're rebellious.
Corrupt.
They've forsaken the Lord.
Idolatry is everywhere.
To the Lord, their worship is meaningless.
Everywhere Isaiah looks, there's injustice, oppression, & moral failure.
His people deserve nothing from God.
They're under penalty of death.
Yet God is gracious & merciful.
Precisely on these people, 2bOn those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
It may be dark, but light is coming.
He promised.
There's hope.
How will God give them hope?
Will He send a hero to conquer their persecutors?
No! God will show the world true strength.
True power.
How? He'll come in weakness.
Love.
God will show the world.
Love is true power.
Love conquers all.
A servant will be 1st in God's KoG.
The Servant.
How will God show the world?
He'll become the most helpless human of all.
Not rich or royal.
He'll be born as a baby, into poverty.
6aFor to us a child is born.
Born?
He'll be human.
Born, just like we are.
6bTo us a son is given.
Given?
This Son will also be God.
God will give us His Son. 6cAnd the government will be on his shoulders.
He's David's greater descendant.
He'll inherit the throne prepared for Him from the foundation of the world.
As David's greater descendant, He's eligible.
Man sinned.
Only a man should pay the price of setting things right with God.
Redeeming all Creation.
The problem?
No human can.
Only God can set things right.
Therefore, this child will also be God's Son.
God in the flesh.
Only man should.
Only God can.
He's God-man.
He's eligible.
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