Isaiah 9:6-7

Rachel Workman: For a child is born to us,
    a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
    And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. I love reading these verses. Jesus is all of those things and more. Prince of Peace, that will never end. He is more than enough for me.

⁷ His government and its peace
    will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David
    for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies

    will make this happen!

Isaiah 9:6 declared both the humanity (“A Child is born”) and the deity (“A Son is given”) of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The prophet then leaps ahead to the kingdom age, when Messiah will reign in  righteousness and justice from David’s throne. God had promised David that his dynasty and throne would be established forever (2 Sam. 7:16), and this is fulfilled literally in Jesus Christ (Luke 1:32–33; Zech. 9:9), who will one day reign from Jerusalem (Isa. 11:1–5; Jer. 23:5–8; 30:8–10). This kingdom is called “the millennium,” which means “one thousand years.” The phrase is used six times in Revelation 20.

“Everlasting Father” does not suggest that the Son is also the Father, for each Person in the Godhead is distinct. “Father of eternity” is a better translation.  If you want anything eternal, you must get it from Jesus Christ; He is the “Father of eternity.

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John Burnett:  ⁶ For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon^[a] his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called^[b]
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  Isaiah is prophesying about Jesus Christ 700 + years before Jesus Christ is born. 
⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace
    there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.  Foretelling of Christ Reign on the earth compared to the doom and gloom they have brought upon themselves due to their sin.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

⁸ The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
    and it will fall on Israel;

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Monday’s reading for Isaiah 9:8-12

⁸ The Lord has spoken out against Jacob;
    his judgment has fallen upon Israel.
⁹ And the people of Israel^[e] and Samaria,
    who spoke with such pride and arrogance,
    will soon know it.
¹⁰ They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone,
    and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”
¹¹ But the Lord will bring Rezin’s enemies against Israel
    and stir up all their foes.
¹² The Syrians^[f] from the east and the Philistines from the west
    will bare their fangs and devour Israel.
But even then the Lord’s anger will not be satisfied.
    His fist is still poised to strike