Friday 14/11/2025
Isaiah 8
There is a problem with how the rich and powerful were living (chapter 5), how leaders were calling good evil and evil good (5:20), and into this context Isaiah is called and commissioned to take God’s message (6:9). The king at the time is stubborn, but the Lord’s message is that the birth of a child (7:14) will signal how things could change. It’s a sign for the king then, but also for us, the sign of Immanuel, God with us, fulfilled in Jesus. The prophet’s own child will be a sign (8:3) of a time of judgement, but where the Lord is firmly in control of the marauding nations. The Lord is the one to rescue his people, but also to judge them; the stone and the rock in 8:14 point us far forward to Jesus who is also the Judge and the Saviour.
The Revd. David Hildred
