For
the day will come when He, who was nailed to the cross, and would sit on
His throne judging the nations of the world, will deal prudently and "be
exalted and extolled, and be very high."
It is wonderful
to see how God begins to tell us this wonderful and amazing love story
of forgiveness centuries before it takes place on earth.
For those of
you who know the Lord on a personal level, this passage of scripture takes
a deeper meaning.
It takes a
deeper meaning because when we read it we feel the hurt through the Holy
Spirit of God and the forgiveness poured to mankind through this Holy sacrifice.
For those of
you who do not know Him yet on that level, you will be amazed and touched
deeply by the love, by the forgiveness, by the tenderness that exists in
this wonderful God that created everything that is.
But now God
begins to give us the amazing love story of forgiveness.
By nothing
else except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ has death been brought low:
The sin of
our first parentS destroyed,
hell plundered,
resurrection bestowed,
the power given us to despise
the things of this world,
even death itself,
the road back to the former
blessedness made smooth,
the gates of paradise opened,
our natural nature seated
at the right hand of God,
and we, made children and
heirs of God.
By THE
CROSS all these things have been
set aright...
It is a seal that
the destroyer may not strike us,
a raising up of those who
lie fallen,
a support for those who stand,
a staff for the infirm,
a crook for the shepherded,
a guide for the wandering,
a perfecting of the advanced,
salvation for soul and body,
a deflector of all evils,
a cause of all goods,
a destruction of sin,
a plant of resurrection,
and a tree of eternal life.
Many will be astonished
that day, in including the modern CULTS of today who with their lies deceive
millions into an eternity in burning hell.
This "King"
this "One" who would be exalted very high. This "One" who would deal prudently
with the nations. This "One" who would be exalted and extolled would cause
many to be astonished one day.
They once saw
Him, but His visage was so marred, "marred more than any man, his formed
more than the sons of men."
This blessed
lamb of God, marred, disfigured who was sent by God for the salvation of
many was beaten by men.
They whipped
him till His faced was marred.
The whips that
the Roman soldiers used, had sharp bones attached to the tip of the whips
with metal balls that will roll.
With every
whip the skin was pulled off with the flesh. Exposing the bones of the
man. Often the man would die while being whipped because of the intense
pain and the great lose of blood.
And so we understand
Isaiah when he said his visage was so marred and His form more than any
man "So shall He sprinkle many nations;" Isaiah 52:15 says.
That was the
blood that was poured out of His body and shed for the nations. The nations.
YES! So shall He sprinkle the nations.
You wonder
why then the nations are crying out Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. They are waiting
to be sprinkled by the blood of the lamb. To be cleansed from their sins,
to be free from their bondage.
The scriptures
declare that first the Jews (When the scriptures refer to the JEWS, they
are referring to the Scribes, Priests and Pharisees, NOT THE Jewish PEOPLE
as a group) beat His face.
In fact not
only did they beat His face but the scriptures go on to say that. . .
"I
gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting."
Isaiah
50:6 KJV
Think about Jesus
standing in the presence of sinners while they were punishing Him.
They took a
reed and whipped His face, they took Him and pulled His beard off till
the blood began to gush off His face.
And now they
began to spit on Him. To hit, whip and spit on the Son of God.
Blood mingled
with spit was His covering. And now they took Him and whipped His body.
And after they whipped Him they spat on Him again.
This is the
Son of the living God. Now so wounded.
For He was
wounded for our transgressions.
Now He was
so bruised.
For He was
bruised for our iniquities and now they began to spit on Him.
They began
to spit on Him just like the scriptures declare in Isaiah 50:6,7 KJV
"I gave my
back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I
hid not my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord
God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I
set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."
He stood there
unashamed, taking your shame, taking my shame.
A band of soldiers
spitting on the Son of God after the Jews had finished spitting on Him.
The man on
that cross, hung literally with His skin hanging from His body after being
torn by the whip.
His beard by
then was torn off by the soldiers and hardly there was any left.
His face was
so swollen and so puffed up that it could not be recognized just like the
scriptures declared centuries before it happened.
He was bleeding,
He was wounded, He was bruised everywhere.
That is why
Mary Magdalene could not recognized Him when she saw Him in the garden.
She said "Lord where have you been Lord, where?
When He said
"Mary", she could not recognize Him by His face but she could recognize
His voice. For the last time she saw Him He didn't look like a man. He
was bruised, wounded, whipped and spat upon.
When we think
"wounded for transgressions" and "bruised for iniquities" we must never
forget that He was marred beyond description.
And so the
scriptures go on to tell us that not only was this Jesus rejected, the
scriptures say that there was no beauty in Him that we should desire Him.
Nobody desired
"that man on that cross." His own disciples fled and abandoned Him.
Now the scriptures
go on to say that "He was despised."
Think for a
moment that He was despised by all who saw Him on that cross.
After bruising
Him, whipping Him and spitting on Him they just despised Him.
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