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The New Testament quotes Isaiah more than any Old Testament book other than Psalms, but Isaiah offers much more to the Christian. The challenges the prophet Isaiah confronted in his ministry provide the backdrop for profound theological insights. During Isaiah's lifetime the Northern Kingdom fell and the Southern Kingdom was facing the future prospect of defeat and exile as well. In his critique...

Israel’s sin, as detailed in the previous two chapters, has created a situation like that described at the end of chapter eight, in which the people will “see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness” (8:22). Yet just as Isaiah 9 opens with an unexpected promise of light in the darkness through the one who “will reign on
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