Keep Calm and Trust God pt 2

So back in Isaiah chapter 7, God tells King Ahaz that he can ask for any sign to prove that He is with him. Ahaz, in false humility, does not ask for a sign--he's hoping that the Assyrians will take out his enemies and save them.  God had given him the chance here to trust in Him instead, but Ahaz didn't take it.  So God says "I'll give you a sign anyway."  And the sign is this- a virgin will have a child, and before the child grows up a lot, the land will be saved from its oppressors.

The first thing that comes to mind is Jesus! However, there is also an immediate fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah chapter 8, a baby was born named from a prophetess and the baby was called Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
But God wasn't finished. this prophecy was also going to be fulfilled more than 400 years later, with His own son, Jesus. Isaiah 9:6 confirms this, when it says what the baby will be called-- Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  

So with some help from my youth pastor, I got all of this and the point of it all: Ahaz is failing because he is trusting the Assyrians to save Israel, and so God gives him a chance in ch 7 to repent and trust him, which would preserve the line of David from destruction

So the sign of Immanuel is fulfilled in Christ also as a restoration of the line of David that Ahaz and others destroyed.

So trust God!