Wounded for Our Transgressions
Isaiah 52:13-14
13Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Who is the servant of Isaiah 52? Zechariah a contemporary of Isaiah declares in Zechariah 3:8:
8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
The servant of Isaiah 52 is the same as the one in Zechariah 3. It is the Messiah the same in Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53:1-2.
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of Yehovah revealed? 2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
What does it mean to be a root out of dry ground? There is not a plant that can come forth without water. At least, not a plant that man can grow. It would have to be a plant that was always there. It would be supernatural, this is referring to the Messiah. Isaiah tells us what will happen to this Messiah, Isaiah 53:3-5.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
He suffered at the hands of mankind. To make matters worse Isaiah 53:6:
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
God laid all our sins on Him, Isaiah 53:7-8.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
To go to slaughter and be cut off from the land of the living means He died, Isaiah 53:9.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Only dead people go in the grave. Yet in Isaiah 53:10.
10Yet it pleased Yehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yehovah shall prosper in his hand.
Yet God prolongs His days and He sees seed. One must return to prolong days and see seed. There is a 2nd coming.
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