Again I am amazed at the relevance and prophetic accuracy the Old Testament holds. I sat down before work yesterday and opened my bible near the middle opening to Isaiah, God gave me the number 53 so I opened there and it amazed me.
The first verse made me laugh out loud because it was exactly in line with what I was just thinking about before opening the Bible.
I was thinking to myself about the Disney Land healing outbreak and how this stuff never gets on the news and if someone were to question it what could be done to prove to them that it actually happened because apparently news personnel never showed up- I thought hard, frustrated at how sometimes it seems the facts vanquish when the unbelievers arrive. And the first words I read: “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?” I was amazed. I went on to reading this chapter that I do not recall ever reading before (although I have read the entire book of Isaiah years ago).

I am amazed still at how Isaiah who wrote his accounts and prophecies down long before Christ came to be and they point so strongly to Jesus I don’t know how any Jew could deny it. Isaiah died sometime after Manasseh who came to the throne in 687 BC. I wonder if Isaiah even knew who he was writing about.

Check out the parallel between Christ and this anonymous character Isaiah wrote about.

Many will not believe and the Lord will only reveal Himself to a few. Verse 1
Jesus will grow up from small beginnings in a spiritually dry place. He was humble and not of royal appearance – to the regular eye he seemed like an average joe – a carpenter in little ‘ol Bethlehem. Verse 2
People hated Him, and he knew much grief and sadness because of mankind’s state. Verse 3
He would carry our sorrow and grief on Himself while the Jews saw Him as cursed by God and evil. Verse 4
Because of our sin he was punished and our inadequacies were taken out on Him so that we could be in right standing with God who ordained it. Verse 5
We have all strayed from perfection and sinned against God but to fix it Jesus took our sin upon Himself. Verse 6
Though it was unfair and unjust; Jesus did not defend Himself. Verse 7
He was taken from death to hell and from hell to heaven, for the transgressions of Gods own people He was put to death. Verse 8
He was put to death with the thieves but placed in a rich mans grave who loved Him and knew He was innocent. Verse 9
God ordained Jesus’ death from the beginning of time and it was His will He be the sacrifice for all of man kinds sin. Jesus did this with all people in mind – every class from the past and the future. He then went to reign in eternity and God was pleased. Verse 10
Jesus in heaven then saw what He paid for if not while He was on Earth and He was pleased that all men could be justified through Him taking their sins. Verse 11
Because of Jesus’ obedience God blessed Him and exalted Him above all else Verse 12