Bob Barney
The Old Testament scripture of Isaiah 53 is a chapter of the Bible you will not hear read aloud very often in Jewish synagogues. What is so special about this prophecy is that it is probably the most spine-chilling proof of the divinity and reality of Jesus Christ! Even more spectacular is that the prophet Isaiah had written this about six hundred years before Jesus Christ came as a man in the flesh. The Jewish people believe differently about a messiah. They have not and do not believe their own Bible that clearly shows a Messiah prophesy that was fulfilled by Jesus alone.
The God of the Old Testament ~ Who do you believe it to be?
Let us take a look into some of the names of God in the Bible.
It is about time when we read the pages of the Bible to really see what is being said and believe the truth of its simple message.
This is an excerpt from The Plain Truth's, The Holy Bible in its Original Order ~ God's Word in Red, Bible.
Isaiah 53 THE SUFFERING CHRIST: It is about the suffering Christ.
1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD (Jesus)' s power been revealed?
The answer to this is Christians. JOHN 12: 38 Romans 10: 16
2 He grew up in His presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry ground.
Believe it or not, there was nothing beautiful or majestic about His appearance, nothing to attract us to Him. Jesus was ordinary looking! In fact, people could not pick him out in a crowd. Even though he taught every day in the Temple, the High Priest needed Judas to point Jesus out to the soldiers as he was that ordinary looking!
3 He was despised and rejected. A man of sorrows, familiar with suffering. He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces, and we didn't consider Him to be worth anything.
The Jews of today claim their Messiah would come as a king. This shows that he was to come like Jesus did! Adam hid his face from Jesus, so did the Jews, and so do many today! Matthew 27: 30. Hebrews 4:15, John 1: 10. Isaiah vs 4 He certainly has taken upon himself our suffering and carried our sorrows, but we thought that God (Elohim) had wounded Him, beat Him, and punished Him. The Jews believed him to be a sinner, so they beat him and killed him. Matthew 8: 17, 1 Peter 2: 24.
Verse 5 He was pierced for our lawlessness. He was crushed for our sins. He was punished so that we could have peace. He was whipped, and {by His wounds} we were healed!
He was killed because of sin. Sin is the breaking of the Law! Christ did not come to take away the Law, but to take away the punishment for breaking the Law. The Law is still in force and always will be – we are freed from the PENALTY of sin. Romans 4: 25 1 Peter 2: 24 – a bodily wound; not mere mental sorrow; but literally, "pierced" as I have used here; minutely appropriate to Messiah, whose hands, feet, and side were pierced (Psalms 22: 16). The Margin, wrongly, (from a Hebrew root), translates as, "tormented."