Isa
53:10-11 (ESV)
10 Yet
it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has
put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for sin,
he
shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his
hand.
11 Out
of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his
knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
NOTE: The entire
chapter, Isaiah 53, may be the greatest prophetic book in the bible. Only a
blind man could ignore the implications of the prophecy. In the last century,
before the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, some skeptics claimed that
Christians rewrote the chapter to fit the prophecies of Jesus -- although, no
one explains why the Jews would have let that happen. The dead sea scrolls
contradicted that claim and confirmed that the chapter existed before Christ
just as it does today after Christ's birth. It is a very powerful passage, one
of many such passages throughout scripture related to the coming messiah. It is
undeniably a picture of Jesus and his mission on earth, to die for the sins of
mankind. The full chapter is even more prophetic than the summary I quoted
here. We really have no excuse for not believing. The proof is in plain sight.
Men choose not to believe and it is not for a lack of proof but for a refusal
to acknowledge God's rule over their life.
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