Isaiah 53

The Suffering Servant

    1 Who has believed our message?
          And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
    2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
          And like a root out of parched ground;
          He has no stately form or majesty
          That we should look upon Him,
          Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
    3 He was despised and forsaken of men,
          A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
          And like one from whom men hide their face
          He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
    4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
          And our sorrows He carried;
          Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
          Smitten of God, and afflicted.
    5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
          He was crushed for our iniquities;
          The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
          And by His scourging we are healed.
    6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
          Each of us has turned to his own way;
          But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
          To fall on Him.
    7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
          Yet He did not open His mouth;
          Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
          And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
          So He did not open His mouth.
    8 By 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
          For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
    9 His grave was assigned with wicked men,
          Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
          Because He had done no violence,
          Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
    10 But the LORD was pleased
          To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
          If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
          He will see His offspring,
          He will prolong His days,
          And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
    11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
          He will see it and be satisfied;
          By His knowledge the Righteous One,
          My Servant, will justify the many,
          As He will bear their iniquities.
    12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
          And He will divide the booty with the strong;
          Because He poured out Himself to death,
          And was numbered with the transgressors;
          Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
          And interceded for the transgressors.

 

On Friday October 6th, 2006, I opened a pocket size New Testament that I had (from the Lord, via Gideons International) right to Acts 8:25-40. God was showing me the Power of the Old Testament Prophecies to lead people to the Lord. I knew right then that God was speaking to me in relation to my writing this (the Prophecy Fulfilled) section of this site, as I returned to working on it the night before. God was showing me the power of prophecy so I would know and so you would know.

 

The Power of Prophecy: Acts 8:25-40 An Ethiopian was reading the prophet Isaiah and receives Christ as he is spoken to by Phillip:

 

32 Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:

         "HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER;

         AND AS A LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT,

         SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH.

33 "IN HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS TAKEN AWAY;

         WHO WILL RELATE HIS GENERATION?

         FOR HIS LIFE IS REMOVED FROM THE EARTH."

 

Come to Jesus!

 

 

Psalm 22

A Cry of Anguish and a Song of Praise.

For the choir director; upon Aijeleth Hashshahar. A Psalm of David.

    1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
         Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.
    2 O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;
         And by night, but I have no rest.
    3 Yet You are holy,
         O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
    4 In You our fathers trusted;
         They trusted and You delivered them.
    5 To You they cried out and were delivered;
          In You they trusted and were not disappointed.
    6 But I am a worm and not a man,
          A reproach of men and despised by the people.
    7 All who see me sneer at me;
         They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,
    8 "Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him;
          Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him."
    9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;
          You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.
    10 Upon You I was cast from birth;
          You have been my God from my mother's womb.
    11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near;
          For there is none to help.
    12 Many bulls have surrounded me;
          Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
    13 They open wide their mouth at me,
          As a ravening and a roaring lion.
    14 I am poured out like water,
          And all my bones are out of joint;
          My heart is like wax;
          It is melted within me.
    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
          And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
          And You lay me in the dust of death.
    16 For dogs have surrounded me;
          A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
          They pierced my hands and my feet.
    17 I can count all my bones.
          They look, they stare at me;
    18 They divide my garments among them,
          And for my clothing they cast lots.
    19 But You, O LORD, be not far off;
          O You my help, hasten to my assistance.
    20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
          My only life from the power of the dog.
    21 Save me from the lion's mouth;
          From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
    22 I will tell of Your name to my brethren;
          In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
    23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him;
          All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
          And stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel.
    24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
          Nor has He hidden His face from him;
          But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.
    25 From You comes my praise in the great assembly;
          I shall pay my vows before those who fear Him.
    26 The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
          Those who seek Him will praise the LORD
          Let your heart live forever!
    27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD,
          And all the families of the nations will worship before You.
    28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S
          And He rules over the nations.
    29 All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
          All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
          Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
    30 Posterity will serve Him;
          It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.
    31 They will come and will declare His righteousness
          To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

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