RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
(Septuagint) translates this as parthenos, which means untouched virgin woman. The Aramaic Peshitta confirms the
LXX understanding with betulah, another synonymous, clear, Aramaic/Hebrew word for “virgin.”
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The virgin will call his name Emanu-El, or “El with us.” Us in context, is the nation of Yisrael.
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The unsaved rabbis insist that this prophecy was about King Hezekiah. But this prophecy cannot be talking
about Hezekiah, for one overriding reason. If Hezekiah was the promised Messiah “Immanuel,” then why did all the
prophets write of the still future coming of the Messiah long after Hezekiah (for the span of 386 years after), who was
a contemporary of Isaiah, had died? Malachi, Zechariah, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others all wrote well after
Hezekiah had come. If Hezekiah was Immanuel, no further future prophesies would have been necessary! More than
that, Mrs. Ahaz had already given birth to Hezekiah and Hezekiah was nine years old at this time! The prophecy is
about a future birth, through a future maiden, or virgin. At the time this prophecy was given, Mrs. Ahaz was not a
virgin and Hezekiah was already born. Rabbi Hillel of Beth Hillel of the first-century school of learning, held to the
“Hezekiah is Immanuel” theory and his entire life’s work was held in dispute and in much disgrace by his
contemporaries, who saw Rabbi Hillel’s view as an embarrassment to the truth. Then of course when the Hezekiah
route does not work, the anti messiah demons try the “Isaiah's son” routine, stating that Shear-Yahshuv is
Immanuel, and Mrs. Isaiah is the almah. The problem with that is that she couldn’t have been an almah, since she
already had a son (Shear-Yahshuv), and if it speaks of a future different son, that also wouldn’t matter because she
would no longer be a virgin/maiden.
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Keep in mind that the virgin (almah) versus the young woman (betulah) controversy, began only after Yahshua of
Nazareth. Before that there was no dissension at all, since all scholars acknowledged that the terms were
interchangeable. There is not a single instance where almah does not refer to a virgin in the First Covenant.
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In the Hebrew, verse 14 reads “lachen yetain YHWH who la chem ot, henay ha almah harah veyoledet ben vekarat
shemoh Emanu-El.”
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Torah.
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The child in verse 15 is the Messiah, who will always choose good over evil, making this child sinless due to His
virgin birth.
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Verse 16 reverts back to Shear-Yahshuv, who is standing there hearing the prophecy, and YHWH says that
before Isaiah’s son grows up, and knows right from wrong, the land of Judah will be free from the attacks of the evil
alliance between Efrayim-Yisrael and Syria-Aram. In essence, the son of Isaiah becomes proof of the veracity and
surety of the almah/virgin birth prophecy. The virgin birth prophecy is so numbing and so astounding, that YHWH
decided to bring little Shear-Yahshuv as a sign that in essence will say to all the House of Dawid that ‘when you see
both enemies of Judah defeated in Ahaz’s days, before Isaiah's son grows up, then know of a certainty that the
almah will conceive, and bring Yisrael their Savior, “Emanu-El,” or “Elohim with us” in human form’. YHWH is in
essence challenging all Yisrael by declaring that only if Isaiah's son grows up and Judah’s enemies are not yet
defeated at that future time, can this Messianic promise of redemption fail.
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From the days of the split in the Dawidic monarchy.
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Judah need not worry as YHWH promises to send Efrayim (Judah’s enemy) into exile by Assyria, and by their
king.
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Jordan.
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Efrayimite territory.
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When Efrayim is taken into exile.
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Efrayim’s demise and exile.
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Isaiah’s wife.
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“Shiloh,” or “Shiloah,” a title of the Messiah. The “water of Shiloah” refers to the Set-Apart Spirit given to those
resting and trusting in Messiah Yahshua.
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Judah trusted in those who ultimately would do them no good thing.
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Efrayim’s impending doom.
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Threaten but not capture Judah.
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Here the land of Yisrael is called Emanu-El, a title, further proving that this is not the actual name of the coming
Messiah, but merely a title.
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Speaking of the coming king of Assyria.
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By Assyria.
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Repeated twice for the eventual exile of both houses.
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Efrayim’s alliance will fail, for he does not align himself with YHWH of Hosts.
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YHWH should be Efrayim’s Rock.
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For those who desire Him to be so.
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Messiah-YHWH was that Stumbling Stone according to Acts 4:11, Ephesians 2:20, First Peter 2:4-8.
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Both houses have stumbled over the coming of Messiah Yahshua, as prophesied here. Judah rejected the living
Torah, YHWH’s Son, and is blind. Efrayim, or non-Jewish Yisrael has rejected their identity as the other house of
Yisrael, along with their responsibilities to live in the eternal ways of the written Torah, and are therefore blind as
well. In order for Efrayim, or non-Jewish Yisrael to stumble at Messiah Yahshua’s arrival, by definition they had to be
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