The Coming Messiah Will Be a Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53:1-12)

In this series, we examine four Old Testament pictures of the coming Messiah: Light of the World, Suffering Servant, Humble King and God with Us. In this message, we contemplate what it means that Jesus, whose birth we celebrate at Christmas, comes to earth as a suffering servant... and what that means for the practice of our faith and life.

[keithmccarty]

G-d's King Messiah is unique among all of the men of the Tanakh however. G-d crushes him with disease (puts him to grief with illness) so that he will offer himself for his guilt and the guilt of the Jewish people to suffer chastisement, bruising, crushing and punishment by G-d’s word's, hand and power until he is suitable for the prosperity of G-d’s purpose. Making him like He made Ezekiel as hard and brazen as the Jewish people.

He is the prophet like Moses a redeemer, Elijah the messenger a teacher and herald of the time of the new covenant of the forgiveness of all sins of the Jewish people, and a descendant of David who battles and wages war (a man after G-d’s own heart). He is by the words of G-d “My righteous servant who makes the many righteous”.

This man is part of G-d’s prophecy of redeeming the Jewish people as He promised and foretold by His prophets when they returned to Israel and made it bloom again.

A man of suffering, familiar with disease: Jesus wept one time. He is never portrayed as a man of suffering, familiar with disease. Yes, he suffered at death as did legions of others in his time but he was not a man of suffering during his life. He was never diseased.

As a colon and skin cancer survivor with over twenty-two surgical scars from many different accidents including a gun shot to the abdomen, emotional scars from a dysfunctional home as a child, and 20 years of head and jaw pain from nightmares and grinding my teeth I am a man of suffering familiar with disease.

None of which prepared me for the suffering I have endured by the words (chastisement), hand and power (bruising and crushing) of G-d after I offered myself for guilt to HaShem (though He removed the nightmares and constant head pain). Just like Ezekiel who is punished for the sins of the House of Israel and Judah.

I am the man described in Isaiah 53 the righteous servant of G-d. The redemption will include the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem. All 14 plus million of the Jewish people are all forgiven of their iniquities and their sins are remembered no more by G-d. They are all a Holy seed. Just as they were when the second Temple was built and He opened the way for them with Cyrus of Persia and sin forgiveness (Isaiah).

My Midrash of Isaiah53; Suffering Servant Jesus Christ, Suffering Servant Israel or G-d’s Righteous Servant Keith Ellis McCarty (Elijah)?

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JOHN 1:29 THE LAMB OF GOD. JOHN 3:16 GOD GAVE HIS SON FIG.LIKENED AS THE LAMB WHO BEARS AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. THE INVITATION WENT TO THE GENTILES CENTURIES AGO, SINCE THE HEBREW PEOPLE REJECTED ETERNAL LIFE ACTS 28:23-28. ISAIAH 6:9/ JEREMIAH 5:21/ EZEKIEP