Isaiah knew Christ would die for him over 600 years in advance

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Isaiah trusted Christ, God’s coming Messiah.  Over 600 years before Christ’s birth, Isaiah proclaimed amazingly detailed prophesies regarding Jesus the Savior (see Isaiah 50:6 and 52:13-53:12).

“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” (Isaiah 50:6).

“…; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:13).

The apostle Mark was an eye witness to the fulfillment of this prophesied violence upon Christ the Savior.  He watched and reported on Christ’s actual crucifixion.

“And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, …  And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him …” (Mark 15:17-19).

Isaiah prophesied that Christ would be rejected.  Can you imagine the resentment that such politically incorrect prophesy would generate among his fellow Israelites as he told them they would reject their Messiah?

“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” (Isaiah 53:3).

Yet more than  600 years later Christ was rejected!  Pilate presented Jesus to the people suggesting He was their king.  Their response was extreme rejection.

“But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.  Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away” (John 19:15-16).

Isaiah understood that Christ’s mission was to deliver His people from their sins by dying for them.

“… 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.  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” (Isaiah 53 4-6).

Although Isaiah trusted Christ even before Christ came, many, today, are still rejecting God the Son who came to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

Are you trusting Christ?

 

 

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