{"id":4090,"date":"2015-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/for-unto-us-a-child-is-bornunto-us-a-son-is-givenand-the-government-will-be-upon-his-shoulder-and-his-name-will-be-called%e2%80%a8wonderful-counselor-mighty-god%e2%80%a8everlasting-father-pr\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"for-unto-us-a-child-is-bornunto-us-a-son-is-givenand-the-government-will-be-upon-his-shoulder-and-his-name-will-be-called%e2%80%a8wonderful-counselor-mighty-god%e2%80%a8everlasting-father-pr","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/for-unto-us-a-child-is-bornunto-us-a-son-is-givenand-the-government-will-be-upon-his-shoulder-and-his-name-will-be-called%e2%80%a8wonderful-counselor-mighty-god%e2%80%a8everlasting-father-pr","title":{"rendered":"“For unto us a Child is born,\nUnto us a Son is given;\nAnd the government will be upon His shoulder.\nAnd His name will be called\u2028Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,\u2028Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6 NKJV)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t read this verse without singing it as Handel imagined in his oratorio, Messiah. He put Isaiah’s words to music in 1741 AD, 17 centuries after Christ’s coming. Isaiah wrote the words of this prophecy around 740 BC, nearly 8 centuries before Christ’s coming. Not many song-writing duos have lived so far apart, in time that is. Yet time has little meaning to the “Everlasting” one. Isaiah prophesied a Son to be born to the house of David whose names would be “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.” Which of these names means most to you today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t read this verse without singing it as Handel imagined in his oratorio, Messiah. He put Isaiah’s words to music in 1741 AD, 17 centuries after Christ’s coming. Isaiah wrote the words of this prophecy around 740 BC, nearly 8 centuries before Christ’s coming. Not many song-writing duos have lived so far apart, in time that is. Yet time has little meaning to the “Everlasting” one. Isaiah prophesied a Son to be born to the house of David whose names would be “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.” Which of these names means most to you today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1290],"scripture-chapter":[1342],"oyb_day":[1781],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4090","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-isaiah","scripture-chapter-1342","oyb_day-september-11"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}