Responses to the Anti-Missionaries

Here is ONE FOR ISRAEL Ministry:

A pregnant virgin? Defending the Messianic interpretation of Isaiah 7:14
ONE FOR ISRAEL Ministry | 11 Jan. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aQkUPoK1U

Here are my complementary comments:

8:25 In Exodus 2:8, Miriam is an almah - but did she remain a betulah all her life?

We never see any husband or children attributed to her.

This would make Miriam a type of Mary as not just virgin in the virgin birth, but perpetually a virgin.

15:40 Isaiah [54:4-5] has prophecied both the Virgin Mary and the Church.

Mary is fertile because She is, as the Greek liturgy says "the unwed wed" - and Church is a widow, but a redeemed widow. Her husband and redeemer died on a Cross.

This is probably why St. John says of a harlot that she imagined "I am not a widow" ... (Apocalypse 18).

Look out for Christians with liturgic colours if they don't use black on Good Friday.

18:16 translating almah and betulah into Russian, as it was used before the Revolution, according to a grammar or Russian from 1914 I found in an old book shop.

almah = dievushka
betulah = dieva

Once someone is a stara dieva (old maid), she is still a dieva (betulah), but no longer a dievushka (almah).

Don't dismiss the mutual influence of Russian and Jewish culture. Kvas is basically the recipe of shekar - a beer brewed from bread with possible additions of fruit (Hebrew preference, dates, Russian preference, apples, I use both when I make kvas).

28:13 Notice God has a rugby team. 7 + 8 = 15 = a rugby team.

I suppose there is also some end times application for God's rugby team ... with Antichrist featuring as "the Assyrian" in Micheas.

30:12 It so happens that a rabbi in Paris, Rivon Krygier, invited into Notre Dame blasphemed the Messiah by stating He hadn't fulfilled Isaiah 11.

My answer starts at verse 10.

In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Him the Gentiles shall beseech - Centurions and Syro-Phenician woman after Magi
His sepulchre shall be glorious - empty grave.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Fulfilled at Pentecost. That's the congregation in Jerusalem that St. Peter spoke to in Acts 2.

And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

Cross and Baptism was a standard unto the nations as well as a gathering of Jews, the last 2000 years.

And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.

The first local Church was in Jerusalem, the second (Acts 8) in Samaria. Between pre-Christians, Jews and Samaritans were still fighting, but among Christians, they were very quickly reconciled.

But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, and Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.

Philistines here taken for Romans, and the Church fleeing from the legions of Titus (both from Jerusalem and Samariah) put them into refugee status and missionary status in Pella, Jordan (Jordan = Edom, Moab and Ammon, Pella = Ṭabaqat Faḥl).

And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.

Egyptian idolatry was replaced by Christianity.

And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people, which shall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

This one, I am not sure of.

33:21 "To break Assyria in my land"

Antiochus IV Epiphanes was ruler of Assyria (in his day Sumerian and Akkadian were still studied, by the way, and some preferred Chaldanism over Olympian gods). (It can be added, Alexander the Great was ruler of Babylon and he had no offspring).

He, Antiochus, was broken in the Holy Land (see Maccabees).

Now the Maccabees period was the Second Temple period, and the Maccabees heroism against Antiochus was fresh in memory when Jesus was born. The popularity of names like Matthew, John, Simon, Judas has quite a lot to do with that.

34:31 So, the King of Persia is the King of Assyria?

That allows the rulers of Russia to be Kings of Assyria. Just North of Caucasus, a part of Russia was formerly a part of Persia.

36:51 Could United Kingdom be end times Babylon? Not whore of, but lion of ...

Iraq transitioned from Ottoman Empire to sovereign state via a British mandate at World War I.

Babylon was excavated mainly by Brits:

Claudius Rich, Captain Robert Mignan, William Loftus and Austen Henry Layard were all Brits.
Fulgence Fresnel, Julius Oppert and Felix Thomas weren't, but their work was lost.
Henry Rawlinson and George Smith were Brits.
Robert Kildewey was certainly a German, but in a Germany ruled by a relative of Queen Victoria. Then the German archaeologists fled before British troops.

Heinrich J. Lenzen was born in Duisburg, I think British occupation zone after WW-II.

Ur was excavated by John George Taylor, Reginald Campbell Thmpson, H. R. Hall, and Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

Check if there is any prophecy in Daniel about the lioness that Queen Elizabeth did not fulfill ...