How do we know that Isaiah 7 and Isaiah 53 were talking about the same person?

Question

Chapter 7 speaks about a child, born of a virgin, who grows up eating curds and honey.

Chapter 53 speaks about a servant who grew up like a root out of parched ground whom everybody hates.

How can Jesus be both of them when they seem to contradict each other?

I know Kallan but you have to use the words that they understand.

Answer 1

In Isaiah 7 it is talking about a child born in the Day of Ahaz. Which is way before the Messiah was born.
continue to the next chapter8 were it tells how Isaiah goes in unto the prophetess (virgin) never till then did she know a man and her first time was when she conceives. This was to be a sign for Ahaz!!
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel
7:14
8:3
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.


In chapter seven Ahaz is told this will be a sign that G-d is with the southern Kingdom Judah, Ephraim is the northern Kingdom is confedrate with Syria and are planing to take Judah and set up there own King.

Chapter seven it understood by reading Chapter eight.

Answer 2

Isaiah 7 is talking about the time in which Jesus came to the earth. At that time the country was to be poor and desolate. The curds and honey are not known to be delicacies at the time. They are more something meant to fill someone up if they need food. At the time of Jesus arrival the Israelites were under the oppressive regime of the Russians. Thus that passage does match up. In Isaiah Chapter 53 it is a foretelling of when Jesus will die. He will die at the hands of man and be beaten beyond recognition, etc. Hence the persecution.

Answer 3

Most prophecies have double fulfillment.1/2 the prophecy is for that day and 1/2 is for the future.
By the time Jesus was born,the family of the Great King David was all but forgotten.All thru Samuel,I and II Kings ,for hundreds of years his "sons" ruled Judah.The last descendant of David was only a governor after the Persians let Israel come back and rebuild Jerusalem .After that it was about 600 years of no Davidic rule.Hence Jesus was a root out of dry ground(He was physically related to David thru Mary)He was born of a virgin,and the only ones who hated him were the Pharisees(many of whom converted to "The Way" after the resurrection) and the "Liberals" the Saducees.The Romans didn't really give a damn,the killed him as a favor to the Saducees to shut them up.

Answer 4

Well that would be difficult if that was the only thing that we have to go by. But that's not the only thing that we have to go by. We have the virgin birth in the Gospels, and we also have the suffering servant not only in the New Testament, but also in other places in the Old Testament in such places in Psalm 22.

Also, by your text I do not see a conflict, they are talking about two different phases of his life, years apart.

EDIT: I would recommend a book, Vine's Expository Dictionary. The word 'almah can also mean virgin. That's on page 276-277.

Answer 5

um sweetie? Chapter 7 the word "alma" means young woman, not a virgin.

Answer 6

Not really a contradiction - one talks about the cute little baby, the other talks about the grown up.

Lots of babies are adored and grow up to be hated.

Answer 7

your going to make their heads hurt.

why must you torture Christians fundamentalists with logic?

why dont you ask them why Isaiah 53:10 says that the person will have children and live a long life.?

Answer 8

Two different people, neither one Jesus.

Answer 9

bible is full of errors.

it is also a fictional fairy tale.

how do we know that the story of Peter Pan is consistent? same thing.

it's unprovable mythology!!

Answer 10

The fact is, they don't.