Not often read in Jewish synagogues, but this prophecy written by the prophet Isaiah some 600 years or so BEFORE the coming of Jesus Christ as a man in the flesh, is probably the most spine chilling proof of the divinity and the reality of Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ is the LORD or Yahweh (Jehovah) of the Old Testament, the one of the Godhead (Elohim in Hebrew) who spoke "Let there be Light" and made the earth Himself (John 1)! This is the God of the Old Testament, whom we have been led to believe was the Father God. The Plain Simple Truth is that fo the most part, every mention of God in the Old testament is referring to Jesus Christ, and NOT the Father! The God who ordered (and personally killed) the firstborn of Eqypt was Jesus! The God who wrote the 10 Commandments with his own FINGER was Jesus Christ! The God who ordered the Sabbath breaker to be killed was Jesus Christ! Isn't it time that you read the words on the pages of the Bible and believe and obey its simple message?
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. 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 everyday in the Temple, the High Priest needed Judas to point Jesus out to the soldiers! 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.
Jews today , claim their Messiah would come as a king. This shows that he was to come like Jesus did! Adam his his face from Jesus, so did the Jews, so do many today! Matthew 27: 30 Hebrews 4:15 John 1: 10 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, beat him and killed him. Matthew 8: 17 1 Peter 2: 24
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 be – we are freed from the PENALTY of sin. Romans 4: 25 1 Peter 2: 24 -a bodily wound; not mere mental sorrow; literally, "pierced" as I used here; minutely appropriate to Messiah, whose hands, feet, and side were pierced ( Psalms 22: 16 ). The Margin, wrongly, from a Hebrew root, translates, "tormented."