A STUDY ON ISAIAH 9:1-7 BY DIANIA SPORISKY A STUDY ON ISAIAH 9:1-7 The Bible comforts and reminds those of us who have come to trust in Jesus Christ not to despair as if there was no hope. We have the revelation of our Lord that not only announces His sovereign reign but also charts the course of world events. One of the most significant revelations is found in Isaiah 9. Against the background of the prophecy of war and destruction, darkness and gloom (chapter 8) Isaiah gave this prophecy about the Messiah—the glorious coming king. “Messiah” is a Hebrew term that means “anointed one,” that is, the anointed king.
Christianity although it may sound like a topic limited to religion, has played an extremely important role pertaining to history, intellect, and even politics; beginning as a small cult-like denomination which became glamorized through martyrdom and persecutions, it evolved into one of the world’s most recognized powers during the first millennium. Within 300 years Christianity had managed to work its way up from being a small reclusive and outcast belief, into the official religion of Rome; and even ultimately began spreading to Germanic tribes. With this being said one can observe that: "Christianity developed within the Roman Empire and within the intellectual framework of classical civilization. From the one came the political power of the Church; from the other a built-in tension between classical humanism and Christian eschatology". (Donald A.
The story of his vision and how he founded this new religion was, “..He felt himself being transported heavenward by the spirit Vohu Manah (which means good mind) into the presense of the High God Ahura Mazada (meaning the wise lord- God associated with cosmic justice). Revelation led Zarathustra to preach his new message. At first he was meet him strong rejection, which he blamed on the demons and Angra Mainyu (who was known as the wicked spirit and head of evil forces). His bitter feelings deepened his sense that evil forces constantly opposed forces of good. Zarathustra eventually convinced Vishtaspa, the Iranian King, to help use his power to help spread the new religion.
* Israelites- They were a minor factor in the politics of the region. The religion known today as Judaism grew and later influenced the religions of Christianity and Islam. * Their ancestors migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan. * Their lifestyle was to organize animals rather than on farming. * Jerusalem- The Israelites had established control over all the land that came to be called Israel and made Jerusalem into its
The prophet Abrahams was considered the first Jew to establish an agreement with God. The Ancient monotheistic religion believes that Judaism is an ethical way of life. Armed with their fundamental text known as the Hebrew Bible( The Toran), the Jews concentrated on living a moral life. The Jewish people believe that God cannot be made up of three parts because that would constitute as several Gods. The Jewish people do not believe in any prophets after their prophets, and that would include Jesus and Mohammad.
Religion has been a fundamental component in every colonization known to man since the Garden of Eden. In fact, one is hard pressed to find a culture where the act of utilizing the principle of religion as a cornerstone is not employed. However it was upon the virgin soil of America that Religion made one of its most indelible conquests. Religious conviction played a vital role in all of the continent's fledgling settlements, but particularly in two colonies did religion, unequivocally, have the most radically different effect. It was religion that drove the New England colony and Middle Atlantic colony down two starkly opposite paths, but one was a religion of uniformity and government by God, and the other, a religion promising exactly the opposite.
Who were the first known settlers of what we now know as the United States? Were the Pilgrims actually trying to make it to Virginia? And lastly, did the Pilgrims and the Indians really get along the way we tell stories in today’s society? Loewen’s main point and argument is simple, the true history of it all reveals some quite embarrassing facts, and if our textbooks wanted to give an accurately moral story, they could have correctly told both the good and bad sides of the stories. Often times, many of us have an inaccurate belief that the Pilgrims, settling the soil in 1620, were the first humans in what is now known as the United States.
As shown by the first part of this statement, it is important to Muslims that only Allah is to be worshiped (Nosotro). Muslims also do not take Muhammad to be Allah or even divine. They believe he is the last of a long line of prophets. Other than Muhammad, whom Jews do not consider to be a prophet, Muslims share prophets with the Jews like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and even Jesus. They also share the Jewish first commandment, which states "You shall put no other gods before me."
In addition to this, it was believed that the kingdom of God would arrive with the messiah, and this is shown in the miracle of the centurion slave when Jesus says to the centurion “feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”. From this miracle we see that you can get to heaven as long as you have faith in God, as the centurion did. Yet again it shows that Jesus is a universal messiah, as he lets a gentile into the kingdom of God. Furthermore, scholars like Jeremais, would say that the kingdom of God has not fully arrived, it will only fully arrive after the parousia, this is known as Inaugurated Eschatology. This miracle supports this as Jesus say that you will “feast with , Isaac and Jacob” in heaven, this would be after the parousia, when the good will be rewarded and the evil punished by going to hell.
The election of Israel as God’s chosen people and first receiver of his grace underlies even Paul’s most emphatic appeal to the righteous nature of the Gentile; his position is clearly that while the Gentile may indeed be offered a place in the scheme of divine favour (a theme deeply rooted in the Masoretic Scriptures) the privilege of Israel remains undiminished. In this context it should be understood that while Paul asserts that “οὐ γάρ ἐστιν προσωπολημψία παρὰ τῷ θεῷ”, he clearly understands the respective grace and wrath of God to be applied to Jews and Gentiles in a fashion relative to their position in the divine scheme, i.e. first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. On this point one recalls the discussion made by scholars such as Grindheim regarding the tension inherent in Paul’s theology and the sense of conflict which lends the text of Romans much of its direction: the gospel is to the Jew first, yet God is not only God of the Jews, “Paul insists that the advantage of the Jew is great (3:1-2) and yet there is no distinction (3:22)”. This theological tension over the notion of elevation is one which reaches back to the days of the