believe - some bible facts

Isaiah 53

Hello and welcome to today's fact that we'll be pulling from the Bible!

We're going to take a deeper look into one of the Old Testament chapters, which is Isaiah 53. Take your time to read the entire chapter, and try to guess who the prophet Isaiah is talking about. It's someone you're probably familiar with :)

Isaiah 53;
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root put of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 
          Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to our way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of is all.
          He was oppressed and afflicted, yet did not open his mouth; he was like a lamb to the slaughter, and as sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgement he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin, he will his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
          After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors   (NIV)

Do you know that crucifixion haven't been invented yet in the time that this was written?
In fact, you won't find the word crucifixion anywhere in the Old Testament because it was never a thing at that time until the New Testament came along.

That's why the prophet Isaiah have described pierced for our transgressions, and not the word crucified. If you were alive around the time this was written, you won't have a clue on what kind of death the messiah would face, so there is no way that a writer would write about Jesus' death on purpose in order to make it fit with Isaiah 53. It doesn't make sense because the dead sea scroll contains Isaiah 53, which delivers the same message without any contradiction to this day. If you personally don't believe me, then go ahead and compare Isaiah 53 to all the past translations. I guarantee you won't find a single contradiction and the message remains the same.

Not only does the entire chapter talks of Jesus Christ, but basing off of what you just read, it also describes how the Christ would be rejected and despised by many. To this day, there are still many people and a big number of them in the world rejecting the gospel and pushing God away, which unknowingly is making God's word stand true.

Now there are many examples like this throughout the whole Old Testament bible that points to Christ, so it's not just Isaiah 53.

Now you may believe the Bible could have been made up or planned, but then why do you trust the day you were born? Don't you know that a birth certificate lives longer than you and your family? To give anything a chance, you must have some kind of small friction of trust in it's reliable source, or else you'll never know the truth nor give anything a chance, and everything what I shared here with you was a waste of time.

But to those who already believe, this is another one of God's amazing reminders that he is a great promise keeper and is faithful and true, and may it fuel you to further your relationship with God - a relationship anyone can have :)