DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERPRETATION OF ISAIAH 7:14 21. use it as an acceptable working basis to present a further correspondence in the passage to .

view of this passage. The meaning is: before the birth of a certain child Judah will have experienced a great deliverance (Isaiah 7:14), before he has emerged from infancy, Syria and Ephraim will have disappeared (Isaiah 7:16) and at a later stage of his development the land of Judah will be reduced to a pastoral wilderness (Isaiah 7:15). However, some claim that the additional "fulfillments" are also strict fulfillments. Isaiah 9:6-7 describes the promised Son who will sit on the throne of David and rule forever. There are a few matters of interpretation that need to be addressed before a careful examination of Isaiah 7:14 can be undertaken. Names had significant meanings in Old Testament days. the life of Jesus. Later this Scripture would be proclaimed as completely fulfilled in Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus (Matthew 1:21-23). Psalm 45:6-7; Isaiah 7:14; 40:3; Zechariah 11:12-13 FULFILLMENT 1 Timothy 3:16. It is possible to see a multiple fulfillment pattern in 7:14, namely, the prophecy would refer to both Hezekiah and to Christ? St. Augustine already in his De civitate Dei 17:3 recognized that some OT prophecies refer only to OT persons or events, some to Christ and His Church, and some to both. Charles Dyer reminds us: The only safe approach to determining the fulfillment of prophecy is first to understand the prophecy in its original context. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. The concept of double fulfillment is legitimate as long as the additional fulfillments are parallels, as illustrated above in the discussion of Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:22-23. Isaiah 8:3 was the present fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14-16. Examination of Isaiah 7:14.

22 In his book on hermeneutics, Berkhof discusses the concept of . The name of Isaiah’s firstborn son, Shear-Jashub (Isaiah 7:3) meant, “a remnant will return.” More details about Isaiah 7:14 can be found here: Did Matthew make a mistake when he translated almah as …

About 700 years after the time when Isaiah gave this prophecy, the Messiah, Jesus, was born into the house of David, in fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14. Hebrews 1:8-9 Isaiah 8:8 goes on to refer to Immanuel as the one to whom the land belongs, so the promised child of Isaiah 7:14 is brought over into the greater context, and not as a mere bystander.