The list maker now skips from Y'shayahu / Isaiah chapter 16 to chapter 22 -- totally ignoring five entire chapters of Isaiah. In those chapters Isaiah continues to explain that after the northern kingdom of Israel is destroyed and her population exiled (some members of all the tribes migrated to the southern kingdom of Judah) various countries will fall. Y'shayahu / Isaiah 17 speaks of the harsh fall of Damascus (Syria) and Assyria. In Y'shayahu / Isaiah 18 is about Gog and Magog (although they are not mentioned by name). Chapter 19 discusses the fate of Egypt (Mitzrayim). The harsh prophecies continue in the next two chapters, returning to the subject of Babylon in chapter 21 -- which brings us to chapter 22. Y'shayahu / Isaiah 22 gives us Isaiah's prophecy of the “valley of vision,” -- Jerusalem and many nations coming against the city. It is interesting that the list maker claims that verses 21-25 are about Jesus when Isaiah IDENTIFIES the person as Eliakim son of Hilkiah in verse 20! How is THAT for proof texting? How is that for outright lying to innocent readers of the list who don't bother to check the original sources? The list maker claims that verses 21 - 25 are about Jesus, but the very previous verse (line 20) tells us that it is NOT Jesus but Eliakim son of Hilkiah! "And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will call My servant, אֶלְיָקִים / Eliakim son of Hilkiah." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 22:20. The next verses are about Eliakim, not about Jesus. Eliakim was the master of the house of חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ / Hizkiyyahu / (Hezekiah) -- king of Judah, son of King Ahaz (of Y'shayahu / Isaiah 7:14). Eliakim is mentioned in Y'shayahu / Isaiah 36:3 "And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was appointed over the Temple and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him" and M'lachim Beit / 2 Kings 18:18 "And they summoned the king, and Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was appointed over the palace, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them." As well as M'lachim Beit / 2 Kings 18:26 and 37. Yet again the list maker is taking a sentence s/he thinks "fits" Jesus and totally ignores the actual meaning -- ripping it out of context to mislead innocent readers into thinking it has to be a prophecy about Jesus. The conntext for this chapter is that Shevna, the Temple treasurer, tried to betray King חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ / Hizkiyyahu / (Hezekiah) to the Assyrians (Talmud Sanhedrin 26a). Isaiah confronts Shevna and Shevna is exiled. G-d then calls upon When Shevna is exiled, G-d will call upon אֶלְיָקִים / Eliakim son of Hilkiah whom He (G-d) appoints as a leader over the Jewish people. אֶלְיָקִים / Eliakim is given the keys to the Temple and the government and his position is secure. Everyone relies on Eliakim, while Shevna, who abused his position, is removed from his position. So this is not a messianic prophecy and it most certainly is not about Jesus -- for heaven's sake the passage NAMES אֶלְיָקִים / Eliakim son of Hilkiah! Revelation 3:7 has no link to Y'shayahu / Isaiah 22. Missionaries may claim that Isaiah 22:22 is a foundational scripture linking to Revelation chapter 3, but yet again we have a false link that in no way does the chapter in Isaiah support. “To…the church in Philadelphia write, ‘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. 3:7-13). Jesus was never given a key of authority, he never had a key to the Temple, he was not a ruler -- and he was not even an heir of David! Bottom line? Don't blindly believe anyone (me included). Research! If you simply read one line (ONE LINE!) above the one the missionary references it is clear that this passage is not about Jesus, but is about אֶלְיָקִים / Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
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