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The religious leaders of Jesus' day rejected Jesus as the messiah because he did not come in the image of verses 3-5 below. Apparently, those verses didn't apply to the actual birth and life of Jesus. This is one reason why Scripture from the Old Testament cannot be used effectively to determine what is going to happen with New Testament prophecies. Somethings are said that will not be applied to reality and only God knows which are which.
Isaiah 9
1 ¶ Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Another reason is because in Acts 1:7 Jesus said the Holy Spirit was given to us for the purpose of proclaiming the gospel - but the times that the Father has set in His power, is not given to us.
Because of these two (and possibly other) factors, reading prophetic passages that sound similar in the old testament and inferring meaning into the new testament writings can cause an immense degree of confusion, as it has already done in the church since the degree of understanding (that the writer's have) is different.
Isaiah 9
1 ¶ Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Another reason is because in Acts 1:7 Jesus said the Holy Spirit was given to us for the purpose of proclaiming the gospel - but the times that the Father has set in His power, is not given to us.
Because of these two (and possibly other) factors, reading prophetic passages that sound similar in the old testament and inferring meaning into the new testament writings can cause an immense degree of confusion, as it has already done in the church since the degree of understanding (that the writer's have) is different.