Bible Verse of The Day – 1-12-24

Isaiah 7:14 (NKJV) 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

As we mentioned in Wednesday’s devotional, sometimes small details can make a big difference!

Sometimes those small details may not be obvious or easily spotted unless we have the right tools.

Good study Bibles can be super helpful when it comes to finding and digging deeper into these small nuggets of truth that often open whole new levels of understanding and revelation for us.

Let’s look at a huge nugget of understanding in the verse above that is also referenced in the New Testament (Matthew 1:23).

It is one word; Immanuel.

The verse above is a prophecy from Isaiah regarding the coming Messiah.

Isaiah proclaimed that a virgin would conceive and bear a Son, and His name shall be called Immanuel.

That doesn’t seem overly deep or meaningful until we dig a bit deeper.

The lights start to come on, so to speak, when we look more closely at the name, Immanuel.

Immanuel literally means, “God-with-us”.

Once we understand the enormity of this, we will begin to see some things in a whole new light.

It’s important that the Bible we use doesn’t translate this as “God is with us”. That is not the literal meaning of it.

“God with us” means that Jesus was literally God on earth, living, walking, and talking with the people.

When Jesus was here on earth, He was not a representative of God. He was God, with us.

Small changes in a translation, whether intentional or not, can make major differences in whether we learn the proper meaning of specific things.

And those things can seriously alter the doctrine that we learn and grow with.

Let’s be sure to allow God to show us His truth, and that we equip ourselves with the proper tools, that we may be “a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).

Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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