Why? Isn't the point rather that God is in control and Ahaz's concerns are
about to be taken care of within a certain time? I believe the identity of
the young woman was known and she was already pregnant, and therefore the
end point of the prophecy could be calculated fairly precisely. The sign
has to relate to the concern, not be spectacular. Personally, if such a
prophecy as you posit above were given in 1943 when things looked bad in
England - as they did in Judah at the time of the prophecy - I would have
been more than satisfied with the ordinary birth of an ordinary child to an
ordinary young woman *because of what it signified*.
Kevin Riley
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