| I've had a couple of suggestions to add to my, 'The World & He Who Overcame It', project. Plus, a couple of misspellings were corrected. Below is how it should appear when I email it around the world. Consider it, & let me know of any final suggestions I should make before I mail it out for real on a big day, before 5-1-10. Thank you. -John
"In a time of universal deceit -telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell The World Isaiah Chapters 49 through 57 predict the mission of the Messiah. The amazing chapters 52:13 through 53:12, which describe the Messiah as the suffering servant, lie in the heart of these passages. These scriptures are as follows, with some commentary: Introduction (continued in verses 1-3 of Isaiah 53) Isaiah 52 Verse 13: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Verse 14: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Verse 15: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. Isaiah 53 An exposition suggested by J. Sidlow Baxter. Poetry in the form of thought couplets or parallelisms, or completive thought couplets. Verse one: Couplet 1: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Verse Two: Couplet 2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: Couplet 3: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Verse Three: Couplet 4: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: Couplet 5: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Verse Four: Couplet 6: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: Salvation statement 1 From Man's Point of view. Couplet 7: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Salvation statement 2 From Man's Point of view.
Verse Five: Couplet 8: But he was wounded for our transgressions, Salvation statement 3 From Man's Point of view he was bruised for our iniquities: Salvation statement 4 From Man's Point of view Couplet 9: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; Salvation statement 5 From Man's Point of view
and with his stripes we are healed. Salvation statement 6 From Man's Point of view
Verse Six: Couplet 10: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; (The central reason salvation is essential for us!) Couplet 11: and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Salvation statement 7 From Man's Point of view
Verse Seven: Couplet 12:He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: Center of the Eternal Gospel of Salvation OF GOD: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, Couplet 13: and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Verse Eight: Couplet 14: He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? * Couplet 15: for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Salvation statement 1-from Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement
Verse Nine: Couplet 16: And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; Couplet 17:because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Verse Ten: Couplet 18: Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: Salvation statement 2-From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement
Couplet 19: 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.
Verse Eleven: Couplet 20: He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: Couplet 21: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; Salvation statement 3- From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement
for he shall bear their iniquities. Salvation statement 4- From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement
Verse Twelve: Couplet 22: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Couplet 23: because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; Salvation statement 5- From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement Couplet 24: and he bare the sin of many, Salvation statement 6- From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement
and made intercession for the transgressors. Salvation statement 7- From Gods point of view of Vicarious Atonement *The destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. is ample proof that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah; and that Jesus was who He claimed to be. Without the Temple, all genealogical records are permanently lost leaving us with no way to trace and verify a bloodline. Any future claims by anyone being the Messiah after 70 A.D. would be by a pretender. "The Da Vinci Code" centers around such a false bloodline, and can be proven to be a lie by only one verse in the scriptures. This verse was the centerpiece of the scroll that the Ethiopian eunuch was reading when Phillip preached to him about Jesus, and then baptized him.
Actually, you only need one line of the verse, if you believe that all prophecies about Christ were fulfilled, and that He did, in fact, fulfill all the Messianic prophecies. (If a = b, then b = a). That verse is about the Suffering Servant, at Isaiah 53:8, where it reads: "And who shall declare his generation?" This is a rhetorical question. The word 'generation' can be rendered 'genealogies' or 'descendants' . Who can say that Jesus was married and had children? No one can! At the end of his 3 & 1/2 year ministry, (in the middle of the week), He caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease. With the perfect blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, further animal sacrifices in the Temple were an abomination in God's eyes. He had to make it desolate, and He did that in 70 A.D. We can never go back to a sacrificial system inside an earthly Temple, but, man will attempt to do it just the same. >http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=4viuAQpQUCg What if what we call the Temple Mount, was not where the Jewish Temple ever was? >www.askelm.com The Lord is merciful in that He gives us all time to find a better way. What amazes me is that sackcloth is not found in any stores. | 
