He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions. Isaiah 52:13-15 and Isaiah 53:1-12
VI. THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, Isaiah 49-57
2. The Servant’s Sacrifice and Exaltation, Isa_52:13-15; Isa_53:1-12
59. Who is the suffering, rejected One of whom the prophet speaks? What would His suffering accomplish?
HE WAS PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS
Indeed, My Servant (the Messiah) will act wisely and prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
Isa 52:14 Just as many were astonished and appalled at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form [marred] more than the sons of men.
So He will sprinkle many nations [with His blood, providing salvation], Kings will shut their mouths because of Him; For what they had not been told they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand. [Rom_15:21]
Who has believed [confidently trusted in, relied on, and adhered to] our message [of salvation]? [Isa_52:7, Isa_52:10] And to whom [if not us] has the arm and infinite power of the LORD been revealed? [Joh_12:38-41; Rom_10:16]
For He [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant), And like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately form or majestic splendor That we would look at Him, Nor [handsome] appearance that we would be attracted to Him.
He was despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief; And like One from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.
But [in fact] He has borne our griefs, And He has carried our sorrows and pains; Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken, Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him]. [Mat_8:17]
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.
All of us like sheep have gone astray, We have turned, each one, to his own way; But the LORD has caused the wickedness of us all [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing] To fall on Him [instead of us]. [1Pe_2:24-25]
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth [to complain or defend Himself]; Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
After oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation [His contemporaries], who [among them] concerned himself with the fact That He was cut off from the land of the living [by His death] For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [of death] was due?
His grave was assigned with the wicked, But He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. [Mat_27:57-60; 1Pe_2:22-23]
Yet the LORD was willing To crush Him, causing Him to suffer; If He would give Himself as a guilt offering [an atonement for sin], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, And the will (good pleasure) of the LORD shall succeed and prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul, He shall see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge [of what He has accomplished] the Righteous One, My Servant, shall justify the many [making them righteous–upright before God, in right standing with Him], For He shall bear [the responsibility for] their sins.
Therefore, I will divide and give Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], And He shall divide the spoils with the mighty, Because He [willingly] poured out His life to death, And was counted among the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore and took away the sin of many, And interceded [with the Father] for the transgressors. [Luk_22:37]
F.B.Meyer
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Isaiah 52:13-15 and Isaiah 53:1-12
59. Who is the suffering, rejected One of whom the prophet speaks? What would His suffering accomplish?
THE REJECTED AND SUFFERING REDEEMER
The common lot of man may be summed up in three words: suffering, sin, and death. Our Lord, the Divine Servant, presents a notable exception to the rest of the race-not in His sufferings, Isa_53:3; not in His death, for He died many deaths in one, Isa_53:9, R.V. margin, but in His perfect innocence and goodness. His sufferings were due to sins not His own, Rom_5:8. We must make His soul our guilt offering, Isa_53:10, R.V. margin. It is the same word as is used in Lev_5:1-16. There is no need to summon the aid of another. Do it for yourself!
Jesus shall one day be satisfied. In the glory that shall accrue to the Father; in the redemption of untold myriads; in the character of the redeemed; in the destruction of the results of the Fall, we shall hear His sigh of content and see the triumph on His face. We shall witness His transference of the kingdom to the Father, 1Co_15:24. We shall behold the satisfactory termination of the mystery of evil. If He is satisfied, we shall be!
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