Was Jesus the light people living in darkness saw? ~ Cross reference of Matthew 4:16 to Isaiah 8:23
Was Jesus the light that people living in darkness saw. Did Isaiah prophesy about this? There are 2 possibilities that I can think of. Isaiah was talking about the darkness that Judah was surrounded by when 185,000 Assyrians were going to attack them and there was gloom & fear all around. Then the Angel of G-d goes out in the night and kills all the 185,000 soldiers and there is great rejoicing in Judah. This could be the light. Isaiah actually prophesied that 700 years later Jesus will come out of the region of Galilee and all the people who were living in darkness will find him[the light] All Images are links to Google Images. Copyright violations not intended. All Greek Text references are from NIV and Tanakh references are from Chabad. This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion. My encouragement to you is that you read th...