How many years from Isaiah's prophecy to the birth of Christ?

Answer 1

Isaiah's prophecy about the birth of Christ is believed to have been written around 700 BC. The birth of Christ is traditionally dated to around 4 BC to 6 BC. Therefore, the approximate number of years from Isaiah's prophecy to the birth of Christ is around 700 years.

Answer 2

Well, honey, Isaiah made his prophecy about 700 years before Jesus decided to make his grand entrance into the world. So, yeah, that's quite a long wait for a baby to be born, but hey, good things come to those who wait, right?

Answer 3

Oh, dude, that's like a biblical history question! So, Isaiah made his prophecy about 700 years before the birth of Christ. Yeah, that's a pretty long wait, but hey, good things come to those who wait, right?

Answer 4

AnswerThe Book of Isaiah was written in Hebrew, and does not contain any reference to the birth of Jesus. However, a translation into Greek of this book, and of other early Hebrew scriptures, does contain a passage that Matthew thought could have been a reference to the virgin birth of Jesus. This translation is called the Septuagint and was written over a long period commencing around the middle of the second century BCE. The apparent prophecy arose because the Septuagint mistranslated Isaiah 7:14 to say that a virgin would conceive and bear a child. Instead of "a virgin", the correct translation would have been "the young woman", and the young woman in question did have a child a few verses later in Isaiah. Taking a single verse out of context, the author of the Gospel of Matthew relied on this mistranslation to show that it was prophesied that Jesus would be born of a virgin.

Answer 5

The Immanuel prophecy given by Isaiah was during King Ahaz' reign (735-715 B.C.)

Jesus Christ was born before Herod the Great's death (4 B.C.).

Approximately 731/711 years between the two.

Answer 6

Isaiah prophesied for a period of about 40 years, around 700 years before the birth of Jesus. However, the Hebrew text says nothing at all about Jesus.

The specific prophecy being sought here is probably the one in Isaiah 7:14. For this, we need to go to the Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. Where Isaiah had said merely that "the young woman" would become pregnant and bear a child (and she did do so a little later in the Book of Isaiah), the Septuagint mistranslated this to read "a virgin," thus creating what many Christians came to regard as a prophecy of Jesus. The time from this prophecy to the time of Jesus is less than two hundred years.

Answer 7

Isaiah was written circa 740-680 B.C..