Emmanuel ..God With US!

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Isaiah 7:14 Explained

Immanuel, God With Us

By Craig Bluemel

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel fulfilled in the Old Testament

·         Isaiah 7:1-2 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, “Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.”  KJV

Syria and the Northern Kingdom of Israel had formed an alliance against the menace of a revived Assyrian empire, and were determined to bring Judah into their alliance, overthrow Ahaz, share the spoils of defeating Jerusalem and substitute a Syrian puppet king there, the son of Tabeel.  Gathering together their armies for the invasions (2 Chronicles 28), Syria leagued with Israel sent a shudder of fear through the outnumbered forces of Judah. The first attack was unsuccessful but it was all but certain they would not fail a second time.

·         Isaiah 7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.”  KJV

God's promise of deliverance came to Judah via the prophet in Isaiah 7:3-9.

To prepare for the attack on Jerusalem Ahaz inspected the city's water supply. God revealed to the prophet the precise thoughts running through the king Ahaz’s mind, and told him go to meet Ahaz, taking along his son Shear-jashub, presumably because of the gracious promise contained in his name, “a remnant shall return from captivity.”