Prophesy About Jesus by Kathleen H. Williams
Isaiah 53: 1-7
1.Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2.For 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.
When Jesus came and revealed himself to the Jews, they did not receive Him. He was not what they were looking for, as far as what they thought their Messiah would be. He didn't appear to them to be who God would send. They didn't have a revelation of Jesus, who He was or what He came to give them, salvation. There were some who received Him but the majority did not. Jesus might not be your idea of a Saviour either, but HE is.
3) He 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.
4) surely he hath borne our grief's, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5) But 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.
Jesus was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows and he was very much acquainted with grief. If you have seen the movie "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" you will probably agree that the sorrow and the grief were portrayed to be very intense. In the movie His suffering was very extreme but in reality what Jesus went through was very extreme, especially for someone who was innocent, someone without sin. He suffered tremendously from the beating and through the mocking and through every part of His journey to the cross and on the cross. In the movie it showed how there wasn't any part of his body that was not beaten and bloody and I'm sure that He probably had internal injuries, that could not be seen, because of the extreme beating and scourging He endured. I believe that it is safe to say that there was not one part of His body that didn't receive injury to it. Therefore, by his stripes we are healed, every part of us. He paid the price for all of our needs; mental, physical, and spiritual.
6) All we like sheep have gone astray, we have all turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
We have all gone astray at some time in our life and we were not able to redeem ourselves, that is why Jesus came. He came to do for us what we could never have done for ourselves. He was the more excellent sacrifice. After His sacrifice there would be no reason for any other. If we have sinned we need to repent and like the Jesus told the women who was caught in adultery in John chapter 8 verse 11, Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
7) He 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 opened not his mouth.
When I watched this movie there were several times that I wanted to just scream out to Jesus and say, Jesus tell them who you are, say something! But He wouldn't say anything, He had already told them and they didn't hear Him. I wanted Him to defend Himself but He knew what He had to do and He also knew that to say anything would not have made a difference. He did what He had to do and He did it the way that He had to do it. Everything he did had a reason. We are the reason that Jesus took the beating, we are the reason He was willingly nailed to that cross, we are the reason He rose on the third day. We must not let what Jesus did be in vain. His stripes were for our healing, His death was for our salvation, His resurrection was for our resurrection. Ask God for a fresh revelation of Jesus. Let Jesus be revealed to you today!
Kathleen H. Williams
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