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Jehovah’s Arm Revealed

Jehovah’s Arm Revealed. North Seattle Bible Students Convention March 28, 2008. Isaiah 53. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Isaiah 53:1. “ our report ” . is your and my message to others. Forepart of our message: Alienation

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Jehovah’s Arm Revealed

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  1. Jehovah’s Arm Revealed North Seattle Bible Students Convention March 28, 2008

  2. Isaiah 53

  3. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?Isaiah 53:1

  4. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... “our report” is yourandmymessage to others

  5. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... Forepart of our message:Alienation • As to both the houses of Israel • Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me…. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. Isaiah 1:2,7

  6. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... Forepart of our message:Alienation • As to all Gentiles • That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. Isaiah 14:25,26

  7. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... Main part of our message:Reconciliation • Natural Israel will be restored • For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in theirown land:… Isaiah 14:1

  8. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... Main part of our message:Reconciliation • Earth’s inhabitants will be restored • And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto allpeople a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the coveringcast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

  9. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... Main part of our message:Reconciliation • Earth’s inhabitants will be restored He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 25:6-8

  10. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report?... And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us theministry of reconciliation; 2 Corinthians 5:18 Main part of our message: Reconciliation

  11. Isaiah 53:1 …the arm of the LORD…

  12. Isaiah 53:1 - ...and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? But though he[Jesus] had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?John 12:37-38

  13. Isaiah 53:1 - ...and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? “arm”is the executor of the body • Awake, awake, put on strength, O armof the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Isaiah 51:9

  14. Isaiah 53:1 - ...and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? “arm”is the executor of the body • But to us thereisbut one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ,bywhomare all things,and we by him. 1 Corinthians 8:6

  15. Isaiah 53:1 To whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Who hath believed our report?

  16. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? “…But how few have heard, in the true sense of hearing; how few have appreciated it; how few have seen in Jesus the Arm of Jehovah, stretched down for the relief of Adam and his race from sin and death! Only a handful, the saintly few, really and truly believe the message,…” R4831:5

  17. Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? What does Isaiah 53 reveal to us about Jehovah’s “Arm”? Reveals what Jehovah’s arm must first be and do to reconcile the world

  18. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, thereis no beauty that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2

  19. Isaiah 53:2 …a tender plant,…

  20. Isaiah 53:2 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,... …a tender plant,… • Refers to Jesus’ tender loving heart And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Matthew 14:14

  21. Isaiah 53:2 …a root out of a dry ground:…

  22. Isaiah 53:2 - For he shall grow up before him as…a root out of a dry ground:… …a root out of a dry ground:… • Refers to Jesus’ perfect human vitality • For such a high priest became us, whois holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Hebrews 7:26

  23. Isaiah 53:2 …no form nor comeliness;and …no beauty…

  24. Isaiah 53:2 - ...he hath no form nor comeliness;...there is no beauty that we should desire him. Jesus: • Had no traditional attributes of royalty • Did not come from a royal blood line • Was not a great warrior

  25. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and he hid as it were his face from us; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53:3 (margin)

  26. Isaiah 53:3 …despised and rejected of men;…

  27. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me,being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. Psalm 69:4

  28. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... “…He wasdespisedof theRomans and counted unworthy of particular notice,…” R3590:5

  29. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

  30. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him.But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. Matthew 13:54-57

  31. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... He came untohis own,and his ownreceived him not. John 1:11

  32. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? forthis man doeth many miracles.If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him:

  33. Isaiah 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men;... and the Romans shall come andtake away both our place and nation... Then from that day forththey took counsel together for to put him to death. John 11:46-48,53

  34. Isaiah 53:3 …a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:…

  35. Isaiah 53:3 - He is...a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:... …a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:… • Jesus did not feel sorry for himself • Jesus’ sorrow and grief was for others

  36. Isaiah 53:3 (margin) …he hid as it were his face from us;…

  37. Isaiah 53:3 (margin) - ...and he hid as it were his face from us;... O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Matthew 23:37,38

  38. Isaiah 53:3 (margin) - ...and he hid as it were his face from us;... “…And because men lightly esteemed and even despised him, "he hid as it were his face from them." […Because of their unbelief and hardness of heart, they thereforelost the benefit of his wisdom and teaching and many of his mighty works….]” R1359:3

  39. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:4

  40. Isaiah 53:4 …borne our griefs,and carried our sorrows:…

  41. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:…

  42. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Matthew 8:14-17

  43. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that werelame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Matthew 15:30

  44. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… • Jesus frequently restored health to the sick • Restored the lame • Healed the blind • Removed blood disorders • Cast out devils • Restored voices to the mute • Cured leprosy • Raised the dead

  45. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… • Exactly how did he bear our infirmities? And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;…

  46. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… • Exactly how did he bear our infirmities? And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him,and healed them all. Luke 6:17-19

  47. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… • Exactly how did he bear our infirmities? For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as weare,yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15

  48. Isaiah 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:… • Exactly how did he bear our infirmities? We do not know that our Lord was sick with any of the ordinary maladies. His perfect organism would apparently be proof against the intrusions of special diseases. Rather it would appear that his healing of diseasesmerelyexhausted his vitality, and thus left upon him the weight of our sicknesses. R4138:2

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