Life of Jesus Christ
was not a random event, which Christians took of out of contest to make him a
god, I have just started with analyzing one prophecy after another, that links
the life of Christ which were prophesied much earlier. Let us look at one such
event
Isaiah was a prophet
who lived in 800BC of his many prophetic versus chapter 53 very clearly
prophecies the suffering of Christ and how his life is offered as a sacrifice
for the atonement of the sins of mankind And most importantly that he will be
resurrected again!
Verse Index
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Prophecy verses
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Meaning and fulfilled verses
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Isaiah 53:1
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Who has believed
our message
and
to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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Very few believes the word of Jesus Christ, thus he
was crucified
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Isaiah 53:2
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He grew up before
him like a tender shoot,
and
like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty
or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing
in his appearance that we should desire him
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Jesus Christ
looked very ordinary
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Isaiah 53:3
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He was despised
and rejected by mankind,
a
man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom
people hide their faces
he
was despised, and we held him in low esteem
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Jesus Christ was a
simple person, he didn’t hold any political authority and was not form an
influential family background
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Isaiah 53:4
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Surely he took up
our pain
and
bore our suffering,
yet we considered
him punished by God,
stricken
by him, and afflicted.
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Now we get to some
interesting part, here Isaiah prophecies that he will take up our pain and
will bore the suffering.
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Isaiah 53:5
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But he was pierced
for our transgressions,
he
was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment
that brought us peace was on him,
and
by his wounds we are healed.
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Here is a prophecy
that was fulfilled as Christ was pierced as he hung in the cross to check if
he was still alive as we in this verse
John
19:34 Instead,
one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow
of blood and water.
The verse also
says that the suffering of Jesus will bring forth peace and healing.
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Isaiah 53:6
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We all, like
sheep, have gone astray,
each
of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has
laid on him
the
iniquity of us all
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The verse says how
mankind has sinned and turned away from the ways of God and how their sin was
placed on Jesus
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Isaiah 53:7
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He was oppressed
and afflicted,
yet
he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a
lamb to the slaughter,
and
as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so
he did not open his mouth.
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This verse is also
a very strong in how Jesus never opened his mouth when he was accused as we
see in this verse
Mark 15:4-5
4 So again Pilate asked him,
“Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
5 But Jesus still made no reply,
and Pilate was amazed.
We see the verse
fulfilled in the above verse
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Isaiah 53:8
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Yet
who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off
from the land of the living;
for
the transgression of my people he was punished
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Here in this verse
we see "cut off from the land of the living" which prophecies the
death of Jesus Christ and I like to put another verse which also says that
his death will be very cruel that his body will be disfigured beyond that of
a recognition of even a human being.
his
appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being
and
his form marred beyond human likeness
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Isaiah 53:9
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He was assigned a
grave with the wicked,
and
with the rich in his death,
though he had done
no violence,
nor
was any deceit in his mouth
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Here we see that
he will be put together with the wicked and in the Gospels we see that two
condemned persons where crucified along with him
Mark
15:27 They
crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left.
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Isaiah 53:10
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Yet it was the
Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
he will see his
offspring and prolong his days,
and
the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand
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we see here very
clearly mentioned that his life is an offering for sin and it is the Lords
will so that everyone who believes in the name of Jesus Christ might get
their sins forgiven and come into the kingdom of God.
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Isaiah 53:11
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After he has
suffered,
and
he will bear their iniquities
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Here we see the
prophecy of resurrection here as earlier verses say he will be put to death
and go into the grave but here we see it says "he will see the light of
life" thus the resurrection of Christ is very clear
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Isaiah 53:11
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because he poured
out his life unto death,
and
was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the
sin of many,
and
made intercession for the transgressors.
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Here we see that
he will be given the authority for he gave(poured) his life for his children.
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Thus we see life of
Jesus Christ fulfilled all these prophecies and gave his life as an atonement
for the sins of many that they may be free from it and attain the peace, joy
and blessing that God has planned for them.
I invite the
non-believers to have a critical review of this passage and provide their views
and arguments so that we may have a health views on this
