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Daniel & The Revelation

Who is the Messiah?
According to Prophet Isaiah

From: 'Prophecy Made Easy' by Glen Walker

Introduction Just as a detective gathers clues to find out who did a particular crime the Bible, in contrast, gives us prophetic clues of who the Messiah of the world would be. Let’s examine those clues that  the  prophet Isaiah wrote down for our benefit. Isaiah foretold many different characteristics of the Messiah so everyone who would read his words would know beyond the shadow of a doubt who the real Messiah would be.  

Isaiah the prophet wrote the book of Isaiah around 700 B.C. He tells us that the Messiah would be born to a virgin and born into the direct descendants of King David. Isaiah uses the same story that David uses in the book of Psalms to describe the predicted rejection of the Messiah. He reminds the people of the story they all knew, the story of the rejected stone.  An immense stone was taken to the building site of the temple in Solomon’s day. The builders took one look at it and wondered why on earth would anyone bring such a stone to their building site. They pushed the stone aside. They rejected it. That huge stone was in their way and was very annoying. Finally the day came when the workmen needed a very large and very strong stone that would serve as the cornerstone of the foundation to the temple. They looked everywhere and could not find a stone that was strong enough and of the right size and shape to be the cornerstone for the foundation of the temple.  

Days went by and weeks went by of searching for the right sized stone with the right strength. Finally someone suggested the rejected stone. They found it to be exactly the right size and shape. The rejected stone became the most important stone in the building of the temple. Isaiah, the prophet, predicted that the Messiah would be rejected by most people like that stone that was at first rejected in building the Temple in King Solomon’s day. The Messiah would be rejected by the very people He would come to help. He would go through suffering in order to save us. He also predicted that the Messiah would be as unnoticed as an unseen stone that people stumble over. Trust this Messiah. He will never let you down.

 The Prophet Isaiah predicted that the future Messiah would:

1. Be rejected like the rejected stone in the building of the temple.
2. Have His way prepared by a wilderness prophet.
3. Spend time in Galilee teaching the people of Galilee.
4. Warn others to avoid hypocrisy.
5. Restore eyesight to the blind and hearing to the deaf.
6. Make the lame walk.
7. Be a gentle spirit filled servant.
8. Teach both Jews and Gentiles.
9. Teach people to take care of the hungry  and the needs of others.
10. Preach to the poor and would do a work of healing to comfort those in sorrow and to bring discomfort to the careless.  
11. Be taken a prisoner and unjustly given the death penalty.
12. Be silent in His own defense when others would seek to kill Him.
13. Go through suffering that would change His appearance.
14. Allow others to whip His back
15. Allow others to spit in His face.
16. Die, not from the mistreatment of the people but rather from the weight of the sins of the entire world crushing out His life. The Messiah would be ‘crushed’ to death by the weight of your sins and mine, the sins of the world.
17. Die with criminals
18. Have a burial site provided for by a rich person.

 

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