Isaiah 53
53 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

7 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 its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 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.

10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

• Isaiah 53 is about Jesus:

…Isaiah 53 is clearly about Jesus

• But What if I told you Isaiah wrote this 700 years before Jesus lived?

  • is it God, or…

    • …Chance?
      
      • …What are the odds?
        

    • …Coincidence?
      
      • …Just How many prophecies did Jesus fulfill?
        

    • …Errors in the Bible?
      
      • …Even many atheist scholars concede that the New Testament is likely to be the most historically
        Reveal Answer
        ancient document based on academic standards of manuscript evidence.
        

    • …Lies?
      
      • …Anyone can die for a belief they don’t realize is a lie, but no one dies for a belief they
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        is a lie.
        

    • …Delusion?
      
      • …A modern case study that shows the resurrection was not hallucinated.
        

    • Additional Resources:
      
      • Was Christianity Influenced by Other Religions?
      • The Criterion of Embarrassment & Other Evidence the Bible is a Trustworthy Account
      • Further Historical evidence for the Resurrection
        

• So here’s what we’re left with:

  The authors of scripture weren’t lying or delusional, they were telling the truth; that Jesus is the one God promised was coming 4000 years earlier… the lamb slain before the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8) who would rescue mankind by taking our sin on himself, and who the apostles said He died on the cross, but then we saw Him alive, and we were willing to die for this truth.

  And Just like God has been writing the story of Jesus throughout the pages of time and history, God has known you since before time began, and has directed your life’s story right into this very moment, for you to have a revelation of Jesus, as the Proven Messiah, God in human form, the only savior from sin, who rose from the dead. So that you would believe in Him, and be forviven of your sins, and receive eternal life, relationship with Him, purpose, and power for your life.

  Romans 10:9
  9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

  John 3:16
  16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  Romans 3:23-25 (WEB): “for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God set forth as an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done previously, in the forbearance of God.”