I am arguing that this has always been the meaning and not something we came up with later. If you look at the context, it makes sense:
Chapter 9 is not the traditional Jewish place for a chapter break. You can see this in the Great Isaiah Scroll of the DSS
here. The chapter breaks that everyone uses are a Christian invention and this is one of the cases where they altered the traditional break in order to suggest an alternate meaning. The DSS has a paragraph break at 8:11 and the next one at 9:12. We have it at 8:15 and 9:6. So Jewish tradition is that the first 6 verses of Isa. 9 are actually a continuation of the the previous chapter and logically, they would be talking about the same thing.
In
this post I went through each of the verses starting from the last verse of chapter 8, showing how the language it uses aligns with it being a reference to Hezekiah.
While I can see how you see similarities in the language discribing Hezakiah and Isaiah 9, yet, i still see too different. For example, isaiah 9 talks about an everlasting reign, and peace, and you just justifying it, that since he did not live forever, it meana until the time of his death. Well, any king lived, and reigned during his lifetime. So, then this prophecy is fulfilled by many then? Nothing special.
Now, lets leave that argument asside. We can agree to disagree about your argument.
From my view, Since the scriptures are the words of God, or inspiration from God, and messages from His prophets, only if the scriptures had said, this Isaiah 9 is about Hezakiah, then one can claim officially that is what God had intended.
But, none of the prophets, or those who wrote jewish scriptures, later, or during Life of Hezakiah, ever said those prophecies are about him.
Even Christian Bible, never quotes those verses to attribute them to Jesus. So, officially speaking, I cannot say, that is really what Jesus claimed either.
Actually, I had in mind Malachi 3:19 (4:1 in the Christian translations). I accidentally wrote Michah.
Ok,
But you accidentally refered me to a relevant chapter
No, you've quoted the last few words of a previous verse and attached them to another verse.
Verse 2 says that the nations will ascend the Temple Mount to learn how to walk in G-d's ways. The Temple Mount held the Chamber of Hewn Stone, the place that the Sanhedrin sat. Together with the Priesthood, they were responsible for teaching and judging the nation. This verse is saying that the nations of the world will also come to the Temple Mount for teachings and arbitration. The following verse, verse 3 is only saying that G-d's Law will be used as the Law to settle disputes for the nations of the world.
It's not talking about G-d literally speaking to people, it's talking about the Torah which is G-d's Word being spread out from Jerusalem. That is how verse 2 ends, "Because out of Zion comes the Torah, and the Word of G-d from Jerusalem". Zion and Jerusalem are the same thing, so these words are just repeating themselves for emphasis.
Ok, I quote from begining of chapter 4:
4 In the last days
It shall come to pass
oin the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
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and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
pbeat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore;
qbut they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
rand no one shall make them afraid,
sfor the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
tall the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but
uwe will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.
These verses are about last days, clearly it says, the word of lord shall flow from Israel. It does not say, the book of God will be read. It is a direct word of God. So, we can agree to disagree here as well.