Isaiah 8: Waiting and Hoping (Part 4 of 4)
Isaiah 8: Waiting and Hoping (Part 4 of 4) VERSES 16-22 The Prophecy Isaiah's voice now becomes personal, speaking perhaps for himself, or perhaps as the One chosen by the LORD. The testimony of Isaiah given him by the LORD is to be bound and sealed, kept secure and sacred by disciples of the LORD. Isaiah proclaims himself and his children as signs and portents from the LORD, warning the people to reject mediums and necromancers. Rather, the people are to cling to the word of God alone, else they will perish. After Isaiah had inscribed "Maher-shalal-hash-baz" in a tablet and displayed it in public, it is likely he wrote in more detail in a parchment roll: Isaiah 30:8 (ESV) And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. The book would be sealed in order that nothing be added or taken out, but also to imply that it relates to distant events and is therefore a sealed and not