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By His Stripes We Are Healed
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. — Isaiah 53:5 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Romans 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Hebrews 5:8; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 2:24-25; Deuteronomy 11:2
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By His Stripes We Are Healed
Why the Jews Don't Believe in Jesus
Jesus did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies. Specifically, the Bible says he will build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28), gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6), usher in an era of world peace and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease (Isaiah 2:4), and spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel which will unite humanity as one (Zechariah 14:9). All past Messianic claimants, including Jesus of Nazareth, Bar Cochba and Shabbtai Tzvi have been rejected. Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright; in the Bible no concept of a second coming exists.
Prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is inhabited by a majority of world Jewry, a situation which has not existed since 300 BCE. Jesus appeared on the scene approximately 350 years after prophecy had ended, and thus could not be a prophet.
According to Jewish sources, the Messiah will be born of human parents and possess normal physical attributes like other people. He will not be a demi-god nor will he possess supernatural qualities.
The Messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (see Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5, 33:17; Ezekiel 34:23-24). According to the Christian claim that Jesus was the product of a virgin birth, he had no father and thus could not have possibly fulfilled the messianic requirement of being descended on his father's side from King David.
The Messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah observance. The Torah states that all mitzvot remain binding forever, and anyone coming to change the Torah is immediately identified as a false prophet. (Deut. 13:1-4) Throughout the New Testament, Jesus contradicts the Torah and states that its commandments are no longer applicable.
-- Rabbi Shraga Simmons
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Ezekiel 37:26-28
And I will form a covenant of peace for them, an everlasting covenant shall be with them; and I will establish them and I will multiply them, and I will place My Sanctuary in their midst forever.
And My dwelling place shall be over them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me as a people.
And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, Who sanctifies Israel, when My Sanctuary is in their midst forever."
Isaiah 43:5-6
Fear not for I am with you; from the east I will bring your seed, and from the west I will gather you.
I will say to the north, "Give," and to the south, "Do not refrain"; bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth."
Isaiah 2:4
And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Zechariah 14:9
And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one.
Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the student of the law from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be a gathering of peoples.
Isaiah 11:1
And a shoot shall spring forth from the stem of Jesse, and a twig shall sprout from his roots.
Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will set up of David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign a king and prosper, and he shall perform judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:17
For so said the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:23-24
And I shall put up over them one shepherd and he will shepherd them, namely My servant David; he will shepherd them, and he will be for them as a shepherd.
And I, the Lord, shall be to them for a God, and My servant David [will be] a prince in their midst; I, the Lord, have spoken.
Deuteronomy 13:1-4
Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it. You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.
If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"
you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.
Xians also point to Jesus fulfilling the role of the “Suffering Servant” referred to in the Old Testament in Isaiah. e.g.:
Isaiah 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Luke 24:44-46
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day
But anyone who has actually read Isaiah knows this suffering servant is Israel itself.
Isaiah 41:3-9
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
It refers to Israel in this manner repeatedly. And there is no prophecy about rising from the dead on the third day.
There are dozens of “prophecies” - “as it is written,” “as it is told” - that believers insist Jesus supposedly fulfils, which explicitly refer to other people or events. Or don’t even exist at all.
The bible Jesus can’t be the messiah. Even if were to accept the Old and New Testaments are correct.
And we have absolutely no reason to do that.
Some people make me sad They walk past me With the rattle of buried bodies in their skeletons And I am interested in why they haven't dropped them off yet How they have gotten so comfortable With the weight of death on their backs And I wonder If they have seen stars in their eyes And moons beneath their smirk But you can tell That a mirror would only give them nightmares And I wish I could wake them up Untuck them from the comfort of lonely And remind them that some dreams do come true That a heart with chameleon like pain Won't always be that color Even though the past and present hunts them like a vidual eternity Scaring the peace out of their faith I place my two fingers next to their weary hands And pinky promise them That worship isn't too far from their reaches Long as they are willing to try Willing to crawl A dying hope to the edge of the Throne of Mercy Drag their weak hearts Into the castle skies of David's God And beg for Him to reign there when no umbrella Just heaven disrupting the hell and prison beneath their ribcage Filling your lungs with songs that have been too scared to fly It is okay Your earthly tears will be a means for praise The day that you see your King's face And He wipes them away So smile Because peace is coming
Acts 8:26-40 ~ Of Whom Does the Prophet Speak?
Acts 8:26-40 ~ Of Whom Does the Prophet Speak?
This week, we completed our study of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. We discussed the passage in Isaiah that the eunuch was reading, and we talked about this being the first time the Suffering Servant’s identity was applied to the Messiah. We also briefly discussed the eunuch’s response to Philip’s interpretation as well as his eligibility to become a follower of Christ.
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He Hath Borne our Griefs
3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men’s faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him. 4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God’s punishment had come. — Isaiah 53:3-4 | Bible in Basic English (BBE) The Bible in Basic English is in the public domain. Cross References: Leviticus 16:10; Psalm 22:6-7; Psalm 69:26; Mark 10:33-34; Luke 18:31; John 1:10-11; John 19:7; 1 Peter 2:24
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Notes: These verses describe the suffering Messiah as despised, rejected, and a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Verse 3 emphasizes his low status and the human tendency to turn away from him, while verse 4 declares that he carried our sicknesses and bore our pains, taking our suffering upon himself.
He hath Borne our Griefs
3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. — Isaiah 53:3-4 | American Standard Version (ASV) The American Standard Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Leviticus 16:10; Psalm 22:6-7; Psalm 69:26; Mark 10:33-34; Luke 18:31; John 1:10-11; John 19:7; 1 Peter 2:24
Izaiáše 53:5 On pak raněn jest pro přestoupení naše, potřín pro nepravosti naše; kázeň pokoje našeho na něj vzložena, a zsinalostí jeho lékařství nám způsobeno.
But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds. — Isaiah 53:5 | Czech Bible Kralicka (BKR) and Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) Czech Bible Kralicka is in the public domain and Holman Christian Standard Bible Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. All rights reserved. Cross References: Romans 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Hebrews 5:8; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 2:24-25; Deuteronomy 11:2
