Just for Christmas: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God (Isaiah 9:1-7)

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!  Many of us wistfully look back to a "golden age" in our nation's past, or our personal past, when life was "simpler", and everything was just right.  But there never has been a golden age like.  The prophet Isaiah tells us, however, that one day the perfect golden age WILL come, and through the arrival of the Messiah.  Isaiah 9:1-7 is the Christmas passage you often hear in "Handel's Messiah", and it describes who the Messiah is and what He will do when He finally returns to set up His rule on planet earth.  Christmas is just the beginning of the story!