well beyond the next couple of centuries. There is an ultimate deliverance by an ultimate Deliverer that he tells us about. That story really does have a happy-ever-after ending, and it’s one that we can all be part of. Within his prophecy Isaiah includes accounts of two defining moments in Judah’s history. They take place in the two key reigns of Ahaz and Hezekiah. At both points the question is the same: Will the king trust God? Ahaz won’t. Faced with an alliance between Syria and Ephraim, he looks