Day 84: December 16, 2025 – Isaiah 6-10 and Psalm 149

The prophet Isaiah is replete with references to the coming Savior, also known as the Messiah, or the anointed one. This Messiah is prophesied to be the one who will take Israel out of bondage into freedom, out of misery into joy, out of persecution into normalcy. These Scriptures for today give us two of the most well known Scriptures which define the coming Messiah as a baby. These are used often for the Advent Season as the prophet tells us of the coming of the Messiah as something for which we ought to anticipate.

Look at 7:14 and 9:6-7 which describe the coming of the Emmanuel, the God with us. Do we not always associate these Scriptures with Christmas? So much so that Handel even created a masterpiece called Messiah based upon these verses which are repeated over and over again as a description of the Messiah that is to come and who did come in Jesus, the Word made flesh. They are no longer words for an ancient people, they are words that we are able to use in order to love our Savior even more.