Saturday, June 13, 2015

Isaiah Prophecies the suffering of Christ and his resurrection


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
Prophecy verses
Meaning and fulfilled verses
Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Very few  believes the word of Jesus Christ, thus he was crucified
Isaiah 53:2
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
Jesus Christ looked very ordinary
Isaiah 53:3
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
Jesus Christ was a simple person, he didn’t hold any political authority and was not form an influential family background
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
Now we get to some interesting part, here Isaiah prophecies that he will take up our pain and will bore the suffering.
Isaiah 53:5
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.
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.
Isaiah 53:6
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
The verse says how mankind has sinned and turned away from the ways of God and how their sin was placed on Jesus
Isaiah 53:7
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.
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
So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.

We see the verse fulfilled in the above verse
Isaiah 53:8
By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
    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
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.

Isaiah 52:14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him[c]
    his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being
    and his form marred beyond human likeness

Isaiah 53:9
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
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.

Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand
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.
Isaiah 53:11
After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities
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
Isaiah 53:11
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
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.
Here we see that he will be given the authority for he gave(poured) his life for his children.



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

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