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Isaiah family’s name changing reflects Divine game changing

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    by Damien F. Mackey     “Isaiah like Hosea had three known children, all of whose names were prophetic”.   Charles Boutflower     Isaiah, Hosea, whose names are of very similar meaning, being basically derived from the same Hebrew root for ‘salvation’, יֵ֫שַׁע   - “Isaiah” (Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ , Yesh â‘ y â h û ) signifies: “Yahweh (the Lord) is salvation”. - “Hosea” (Hebrew הוֹשֵׁעַ ) means practically the same: “ Yahweh (the Lord) is saviour ” .   was, in fact, one and the same prophet.   Hosea’s/Isaiah’s Family   Though no doubt young, the prophet was given the strange command by God to marry an ‘unfaithful’ woman:   “‘Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord’. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim …” (Hosea 1:2-3). Biblical scholars have agonised over the type of woman this Gomer migh...
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Faithless Israelites scared of a few giants

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     ‘We saw Nephilim there. (The descendants of Anak are Nephilim.) We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that’s how we must have looked to them’.   Numbers 13:33   Only Jesus Christ can lead us into the Promised Land (Acts 4:12): “ And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” .   Metaphorically speaking, the Israelites would be led into the Promised Land by a Jesus - at least, by a warrior with a Jesus name, Joshua ( יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ), meaning “The Lord will save”. The name Jesus ( יֵשׁוּעַ ) means, similarly, “He will save”.   Metaphorically, again, it would not have been fitting for Moses to have led the Israelites into the Promised Land because Moses embodied the Law (Torah), and the Law alone was never sufficient to save Israel ( cf. Romans 7:13-24).   As Ike Clanton said to Wyatt Earp, ‘Law don’t go around here, K...
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Evidence for the prophet Isaiah during the reign of King Josiah

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    by   Damien F. Mackey     It seems ridiculous, doesn’t it, the prophet Isaiah, considered to have been martyred during the reign of King Manasseh of Judah (d. c. 643 BC, conventional dating), yet somehow still functioning during the reign of King Josiah of Judah (c. 640-609 BC)?   How to explain this?   That Isaiah was, with his father, Amos (Amoz) (Isaiah 1:1), or Micah, a Simeonite – unlike the typical prophets of Israel ( cf. Amos 7:14) – I have now well established in articles such as:   God can raise up prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon   (5) God can raise up prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon   Now, there was a Simeonite leader whose name was Asaiah ( 1 Chronicles 4:36), and his name is the same as King Josiah’s personal secretary, “Asaiah, servant of the king” ( עֲשָׂיָה עֶבֶד - הַמֶּלֶךְ ). This was a very high office: Topical Bible: The King of Israel's Se...
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