✏️“Fulfillment Of Prophesies Of Christ In Isaiah 53,” http://www.netbiblestudy.net/lessons/21-Fulfillment-Of-Isaiah-53.pdf
Written between 739 and 681 B.C. (approx 700 before the crucifixion), Isaiah 53 is a powerful example of God’s faithfulness, not to mention, His sovereignty. God purposefully wove the gospel plan into history, preparing His people for the Messiah/Christ. The writers of the New Testament Scriptures, demonstrate this truth by how they fervently point to the Old Testament Scriptures as God’s Word revealing Jesus as the promised Messiah (Jn 5:48; Lk 24:44).
He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Jesus, Luke 24:44
Jesus also viewed the Old Testament as God’s Word (Mk 7:8-13) and regularly affirmed that its authority was steadfast and true (Mt 5:17-18; Jn 10:35). As John Wenham articulates in his book, “Christ and the Bible, the Christian view of Scripture is Jesus’s view of Scripture. We need to value the whole Bible as God’s Word to us (Jn 17:17; 1 Ti 3:16-17).
Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished.
Jesus, Matthew 5:17-18
Let’s follow the noble example of the Bereans as recorded by Luke in Acts 17 and study the Scriptures diligently, using it as our straight-edge (Elisabeth Elliot’s exhortation) for all of life. Holding fast to God’s Word is not only incredibly important, it’s also a command (Mt 4:4; 1 Co 15:2-3).
Much love,
Meridith
Isaiah 53
Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lordbeen revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a young plant
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at him,
no appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.
4 Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;
but we in turn regarded him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced because of our rebellion,
crushed because of our iniquities;
punishment for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.
6 We all went astray like sheep;
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished him
for the iniquity of us all.7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,
and who considered his fate?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
but he was with a rich man at his death,
because he had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.10 Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him severely.
When you make him a guilt offering,
he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,
and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
11 After his anguish,
he will see light and be satisfied.
By his knowledge,
my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will carry their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him the many as a portion,
and he will receive the mighty as spoil,
because he willingly submitted to death,
and was counted among the rebels;
yet he bore the sin of many
and interceded for the rebels
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