Read Isaiah 22 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
22:1-14 {p} The vision Isaiah saw of the plundering of Jerusalem at the hands of a great army
22:15-25 {p} Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the steward of the house of David
The Strong theme:
21:13-22:14 {s+s+p} The Ishmaelites and Jerusalem reduced by war
The Chiastic structure:
Isaiah prophesies of Eliakim,
And I will place the key of the house of David on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. Isa 22:22
This phrasing occurs no where else in the Hebrew Bible, but it does show up in the Greek:
These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens: Rev 3:7
The Teaching Tool of Common Theme is highlighting Eliakim or Eliakim’s prophecy as Messianic, for some reason.
Eliakim means, ‘God Raises Up.’ That is certainly Messianic, prophesying that He who has the key of David will be raised up not only to His position of “the government on His shoulder” (Isa 9:6) but literally, raised up from the dead.
His Son Jesus Christ our Lord was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Rom 1:3-4
That He died, needing to be raised up, Isaiah also prophesies in verse 25: for the faithful steward will be cut off. Nothing like this happened to the historic Eliakim, but certainly to Messiah Yeshua. And what of the burden laid on the peg driven into a firm place? When Yeshua is cut off, the burden (the sins of the whole world laid upon Him), is cut down. Now sin does not separate us from the Father as previously.
But if you would really like your mind blown, consider vs. 24. The sentence fragment, ‘And they will hang on him,’ is the central axis of the Isa 22:23-25A substructure. It turns out,
To hang is Strong’s H8518, תלה talah, a primitive verb meaning, “to hang,” but also in the grammar of this verse, “to put to death by hanging.” The ancient pictographs are tav + lamed + hey.
tav ת = crossed sticks (mark, sign, signal, monument)
lamed ל = shepherd’s staff (teach, yoke, to, bind}
hey ה = man w/ raised arms (exclaim, reveal, wonder, worship, breath)
The Hebrew Root Word parable is of the cross (tav) upon which is bound (lamed) the man with his arms extended (hey).
Messiah cut off, and sin cut down in the process; but then, whom God Raised Up, and gave the key of the house of David. And He is King of kings and Lord of lords, who lives and reigns forever!
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