"And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias (Isaiah 9:1-2) the prophet, saying, "the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:13-17
About 769 years earlier Isaiah was granted a look at the future. Not only in this verse, but literally hundreds of Old Testament verses refer to a particular moment/season in time. Think about how long that is and just how difficult it would be to guess specific events of the future. Truly we can barely see to the end of the week, much less months, or years, decades, centuries or millenniums.
God has weaved together the past, present and future to reveal His omniscience through the scriptures.
Don't let the naysayers put their foot in the door of your faith. All scripture is true and all scriptural prophecy has come to pass or is waiting to come to pass according to God's foreknowledge.
Don't buy into the argument that the scriptures from one writer say something different from another writer. That is a child's argument and certainly not from someone who has read and understand the links and correlations of scripture.
Don't even listen to the argument about the King James version of the Bible is full of mistakes and errors. The mistakes and the errors are being made by those who can't grasp the connection between God and man, the spoken word 'Rhema of God' and the written word 'Logos of God' and the inerrancy of the scripture, even in it's man written form.
There are even those who go about saying that God doesn't answer prayer anymore, that we are in a waiting period between the time when Jesus performed miracles and heaven. Gobbledygook. That hardly explains the miracles that took place after Jesus ascended into heaven, through Paul, the Apostles and many others.
In this one verse, Isaiah spoke it and Jesus fulfilled it hundreds of years later, but there are hundreds of like prophesies in the scriptures. God is still speaking to men and women and giving them words of knowledge, words of wisdom, prophetic words of encouragement and prophecy. What makes these prophesies different than scriptural prophesies is that scripture holds the key to salvation and every word ever spoken necessary to secure salvation has already been spoken/written. There will never be a new way or a different way or a way that God told so and so it should be done that differs from scripture. But foreknowledge of future events spoken for the edification of the church, yes. What, do you really think that God stopped speaking to men and women of faith after John died on the Isle of Patmos? No way. And God is speaking to you, right now, through His Spirit into your inner man. Are you receptive to hear the voice of God. Isaiah was and look at the results.
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