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Sunday, 11 December 2011

His name shall be called Wonderful


Isaiah 9:6, “...His name shall be called Wonderful...”

The word wonderful according to Strong’s Enhanced Lexicon is the Hebrew word pele’.
It means:
1)      Wonder, marvel
1a)       wonder (extraordinary, hard to understand thing)
1b)       wonder (of God’s acts of judgement and redemption)

Pele’ comes from the root word pala’ which means:
§  to be marvellous
§  to be wonderful
§  to be surpassing
§  to be extraordinary
§  to be separate by distinguishing action

When we apply these meanings to the child, to be born of the virgin; we begin to grasp something of the surpassing excellence of this Child who is God-With-Us.

On the one hand we see that this Child will be a remarkable, outstanding individual. On the other hand there is a Divine, mysterious quality to the name which speaks to us of His essential being as God; Immanuel, God-With-Us.

Jon Peasey

[All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version]

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