Today I’d like to talk about Isaiah 11, one of the most
famous and most important Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. But first, let’s get some background out of the way. Isaiah’s actual name,
his Hebrew name, is
Yeshayahu. It means “the salvation of
Yahu.”
And who or what is
Yahu?
Yahu
is a short form of the personal name of God. No one knows how to pronounce this name in its full form anymore. But it’s often written as Yahweh. It was probably originally pronounced something
like Yahueh, though no one knows for sure.
In English Bibles, the personal name of God is usually written L
ORD in all
capital letters. When you see these capital letters, you know that the original Hebrew name written there is Yahweh.
