3951 - Israel Conquered by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

3951 — Israel Conquered

By Editor

Please explain Isa. 8:8. C. M.

We are not just certain as to what our correspondent means. The inquiry seems to be respecting verse 5, but verse 5 requires no explanation. Possibly it may be verse 8. If verse 8 is meant, the context must be read with it, and that is that Syria and Israel, through their kings, Rezin and Pekah, in their confederacy, were bringing destruction upon Israel instead of safety, and that because of their departure from the Lord, the Lord would bring upon Israel Assyria with all his power, and Assyria should overflow the land and pass through it. The idea is that it would all be covered. Assyria, with its minions, would sweep through the entire land and fill its whole breadth. "Immanuel," of course, is one of the names of our Lord, and the land belonged to Him, but the backsliding of Israel brought judgments upon the entire nation.