I was reading Isaiah 53 yesterday and the verses below (3-9) started speaking to me. Jesus fulfilled every characteristic of the prophecies given in the Old Testament about the Messiah.
It's so amazing reading some of the verses about the Messiah written hundreds of years before Jesus was born and realising...
This is Jesus.
He fulfilled every prophecy.
He understood what He was born on earth for and He willingly walked to the most excruciating and gruesome death that a person can experience.
Why would He do that?
Does He love us that much?
This is our God.
This is our God.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
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 her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
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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