Isaiah 53 1Who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10Yet 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. 11Out 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. 12Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. ---- Just wanted to post that.
I keep getting coincidences. If I pray about something on a Saturday evening (something obscure) it sometimes turns out to be the main topic of the sermon in church the following morning! This has happened a few times. Praise the Lord!
Pretty soon all the little gang banger kids are gonna know God better than the churchgoers who think Jesus is a man instead of a word from God to say G's US!
Funny thing is, I went to sleep last night with this overwhelming feeling/need to post this in the forum. I can think of one place it came from...
YES precisely my point... Isaiah wrote the passage almost 700 years before Christ came to the earth yet it describes Jesus and in this case his time at Calvary--in detail! What an amazing coincidence! Along with the other 300+ prophecies in OT that describe the life Jesus... just coincidences...
Last time I checked, Jesus was symbolically the cornerstone. The stone the builders rejected. You are just fulfilling prophecy my brotha
