Isaiah 53:1-12 Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 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 comeiliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. 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. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satsified: by His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities. 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.
This chapter should speak for itself, and my initial impulse was to let it stand alone so the full impact of what was spoken could be felt. I could easily break down each line and tie to fulfilled Scriptures, but instead will only pull out just a few for clarification instead. In Verse 2 ("...He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.") the form spoken of means that He has no appearance of pride (that very same pride that took Satan down). Regardless of what He "looks" like the "beauty" of what He did for us is what we see, seek, and desire. In Verse 10 ("Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him...") it pleased the Lord to take those stripes for us, His children, so that we might be with Him in eternity (Jesus was God with us in the flesh). In Verse 12 ("....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.") He made intercession by taking our place on the Cross without saying a word on His behalf. Christ came in the flesh for us and He died on the Cross for us feeling everything in His flesh body so that we may live with Him after these flesh bodies....and for all of that, we but just have to believe upon Him. John 3:16
This chapter should speak for itself, and my initial impulse was to let it stand alone so the full impact of what was spoken could be felt. I could easily break down each line and tie to fulfilled Scriptures, but instead will only pull out just a few for clarification instead. In Verse 2 ("...He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.") the form spoken of means that He has no appearance of pride (that very same pride that took Satan down). Regardless of what He "looks" like the "beauty" of what He did for us is what we see, seek, and desire. In Verse 10 ("Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him...") it pleased the Lord to take those stripes for us, His children, so that we might be with Him in eternity (Jesus was God with us in the flesh). In Verse 12 ("....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.") He made intercession by taking our place on the Cross without saying a word on His behalf. Christ came in the flesh for us and He died on the Cross for us feeling everything in His flesh body so that we may live with Him after these flesh bodies....and for all of that, we but just have to believe upon Him. John 3:16