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Why don'y you stop with your incessant personal attacks. If you can't take the heat get out of the debate.ChristRoseFromTheDead said:This makes me wonder what type of know-nothing clowns would make such a ridiculous claim that Isaiah didn't write all of his prophecies until 700- 680 BC.
We know for a fact that Isaiah was prophesying around 759-740 BC based on his statement in chapter 6 regarding the vision he saw in the that year King Uzziah died (759 - 740 BC). Prophecies are written when visions occur, not 40 - 60 years after the fact.
We also know for a fact that Isaiah was prophesying before King Uzziah died because in chapter 1 it says;
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Isaiah 1:1
Why don't we do some research, Sherlock, and try to determine what theological school of thought, or person(s), came up with these untenable dates of 700-680 BC?
From Gill's commentary:
Gill seems to like the idea that Isaiah began to prophesy in the 23rd year of Uzziah. That would be somewhere between 782 - 763 BC, which is long before the destruction of Damascus in 732 BC.
2 Chronicles 26:22 referenced above says this:
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. 2 Chronicles 26:22
So it appears that Isaiah was quite familiar with King Uzziah.
The book of Jeremiah proves that the total destruction of Damascus is a future event.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Jeremiah.html
Date of the book of Isaiah.
Most of the events referred to in chs. 1–39 occurred during Isaiah’s ministry (see 6:1; 14:28; 36:1), so these chapters may have been completed not long after 701 b.c., the year the Assyrian army was destroyed (see note on 10:16). The prophet lived until at least 681 (see note on 37:38) and may have written chs. 40–66 during his later years. In his message to the exiles of the sixth century b.c., Isaiah was projected into the future, just as Ezekiel was in Eze 40–48.
http://www.biblica.com/niv/study-bible/isaiah/
Date of Writing: The Book of Jeremiah was written between 630 and 580 B.C. HE ALSO PROPHECIED THE DESTRUCTION OF DAMASCUS ABOUT 100 YEARS AFTER ISAIAH DID!
http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Jeremiah.html
The Historical Time Frame of the book of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah prophesied during the administrations of five of Judah’s kings:
Josiah (639-608 B.C.)—31 years
Jehoahaz (608 B.C.)—3 months
Jehoiakim (608-597 B.C.)—11 years
Johoiachin (597 B.C.)—3 months
Zedekiah (597-586 B.C.)—11 years
https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/747-marvelous-book-of-jeremiah-the
If Jeremiah also prophesied the Destruction of Damascus between 639 and 586 B.C. Doesn't it make you wonder why Isaiah's prophesy of Damascus destruction would already be fulfilled in Isaiah 17? Of course it doesn't make you wonder! That would debunk your theory right from God's Word!
Prophecy against Damascus.
Jeremiah 49:23 ¶Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
2Ki 16:9 KJV - 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings was written in the 6th century. That too debunks your belief that Isaiah 17:1 is already fulfilled by the Assyrians!
http://youtu.be/YdC9pJ5t3LI