Isaiah 53                                                              Book of Isaiah    

 

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

• Arm = Is the strength and power
• Roman 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias (Isaiah) saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
  17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
• John 12:38 That the saying of Esaias (Isaiah) the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
• 1 Chron 21:17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

• The nation will yet say it in their confession and weeping.
• This was the Lamb of God

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

• Jesus was despised, All men left the Lord, only few women stayed with Him
• John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
  11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

• Jesus (and no one else)
• Borne carried = borne the punishment for the judgment which was brought about by their sins.
• Griefs = sorrows
• Matthew 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias (Isaiah) the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

• With His stripes, our sins are forgiven
• Wounded = pierced
• 1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• We = like sheep
• It's there shepherd, that take care of the sheep, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
• 1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

• Sheep trusts their shepherd
• 1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
• Opened not His mouth, Idiom for silence and submission
• Acts 8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
  33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
• John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
  35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
  36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
  37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

• From prison and from judgment = by constraint and by sentence He was taken away.
• Those that followed Him, left him.
• Cut off = Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Thus climax of this prophecy is reached.
• 1. A hint = Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. (4) He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
• 2. Open lament = Isaiah 49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
• 3.Personal suffering; now = Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
• 4. Violent death = Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

• He made, one or they appointed, or assigned His grave or, it His grave was appointed, made is rendered "appoint"
• Even where it is rendered "to make" it has the force of "appoint"
• Matthew 27:38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
• Jesus had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Wicked = criminals, these have a separate part assigned in all Jewish cemeteries.
• Rich man = Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
  58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
  59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
  60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
  61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

• When thou shalt make, this introduces the break in the Dispensations, which is the subject of the rest of the chapter: the "glory which shall follow" the sufferings.
• An offering for sin = the trespass offering
• Psalms 40:1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
  2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
  3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
  4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
  5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
  6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
  7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
• 8  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
  10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
  11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
  12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
  13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.
  14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
  15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
  16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
• He shall see His seed: "see" corresponding with "see" in the result, issue, and reward of His suffering.
• Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
• Psalms 22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Psalms 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
• The Chaldee Tarum reads "they (His seed) shall see the kingdom of their Messiah
  

11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant

justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

• By His knowledge, The Lord's loved for us. "Satisfied by His knowledge, My righteous Servant shall justify many, for he shall bear.
• We have not an impotent Father, or a disappointed Christ, or a defeated Holy Spirit, as is so commonly preached: but a omnipotent Father, an all-victorious Christ and an Almighty Holy Spirit, able to break the hardest heart and subdue the stoutest will.
• Justify = to make right

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

• Divide = apportion, or assign
• Poured out, only here (in the "latter" portion) and (the "former" portion)
• Isaiah 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• He was numbered = Mark 15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25