Isaiah 7:1-16

God displays His amazing grace, love, longsuffering and justice as He sends Isaiah to the wicked, vile king Ahaz. Ahaz has lived in absolute rebellion and defiance toward the LORD in spite of having every reason to put his full trust in God. In his present situation, Ahaz has no desire to trust in the power and protection of God in spite of God's gracious offer through Isaiah. He stands on the precipice of calamity yet he arrogantly in willful ignorance refuses the incredibly gracious and loving offer from the LORD God.God in His longsuffering told Ahaz to ask for any sign without limitation to confirm the word that He had given through Isaiah. Ahaz responds in hypocritical piety. This petty, arrogant king has thoroughly rejected God and His word by refusing God's offer to show a sign for him.In spite of Ahaz, God Himself will show a sign to Ahaz. An undeniable sign confirming the authenticity of His word through the prophet Isaiah. This ultimate sign, that is a sign for us today, would be the virgin birth of Christ to Mary. Jesus is the word that became flesh. Jesus Christ the Living Word and God's written word are inseparably truth. The entirety of God's word points to the person of Jesus the Christ. Jesus displays the authenticity of the entirety of God's word. How blessed we are to know Jesus the living Word through the written word by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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1 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.

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;

4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.