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1 | Explain Isiah 44:28 | Is 44:28 | Lady-Rose | 30866 | ||
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2 | Explain Isiah 44:28 | Is 44:28 | Hank | 30867 | ||
Lady Rose: Let's "take it from the top" and begin reading in verse 24 of Isaiah 44. Isaiah under inspiration of God is making a prophecy about the return of the Jews from exile to rebuild and inhabit Jerusalem -- a prophecy made some 150 years before it happened..... Verse 28 predicts God's use of Cyrus, king of Persia, to gather the remnant of Israel back to their land. The term "shepherd" in reference to Cyrus is not unique to Isaiah (see 2 Sam.5:2; Jer.3:15)...... In regard to the references to Jerusalem and the temple in this verse, it was in 538 B.C. that Cyrus ordered the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem (see Ezra 1 and 6). The work was completed some 22 years later, in 516 B.C. Of course, from the perspective of secular history the most remarkable (and "impossible") aspect of this account is that it tells of events that would happen 150 years into the future and names the main player (Cyrus) in those events scores of years before Cyrus was born. This event, among others in Isaiah, has given rise to the "higher criticism" of the book of Isaiah that attempts to make the case for there having been at least two, perhaps more, "Isaiahs" -- although there is far more evidence that Isaiah was indeed one man, a great prophet of God. Some people are just not willing to accept anything supernatural or to credit God with having a hand in human affairs. --Hank | ||||||
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