Everlasting Father?Emmanuel? Who is this?

                EVERLASTING FATHER?   EMMANUEL?

I am perplexed by the passage in Isaiah 9:6  “ A child will be born and a son given. And His name shall be ……..Eternal Father. Yes you know the other names Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace. But Eternal Father, and (Isaiah 7:14) (I)Emmanuel? I never remember Jesus being called EMMANUEL or Immanuel during His life. How can this ever be? Were the aforementioned expanded definitions of the Messiah given by Peter ?I understand eternal, but Father?  I understand Son but Jesus is at the right Hand of the Father so how can he be with us forever as an Emmanuel? Paul gives a commentary on this all inclusive “baby” from Isaiah’s prophetic words written centuries before Jesus’ actual birth.  Before this He was the second part of the Trinity, possibly being spoken into existence with “Let there be light” spoken by God. Of course as the Sabbath which was made for man according to Jesus .

First of all we are included into the “family” of God after having been thrown out of the Garden by God himself. We were banned from Him , and at enmity with HIM,  having a gulf between us placed as a consequence of our disobedience. The one-time sacrifice of Jesus obviated this gulf along with His prayer of John 17, when linked with our obedience to belief in the perfect sacrifice. In anticipation of His death the prayer reestablished a family relationship with our Father who art in heaven. Yet how could he be claimed as FATHER and be a son, and a wonderful counselor, and Emmanuel?

Paul sheds light on these questions with the  concept of reconciliation in Colossians 1 In verse 15. He is the firstborn of creation (light) in order to participate in it. Then in vs. 19 , for it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the FULLNESS should dwell. If ALL still means all then the Father is in the Son as well as the Holy Spirit. For God to dwell among us, He does so as Emmanuel the mighty counselor. This of course could not happen until Jesus murder on the cross for the sin of you and me. He promised us a Comforter I believe in Emmanuel, but this could be a part of the definition of the Christ that Peter acknowledged.