Messianic Prophecies in Isaiah 53

 

My Response to a Facebook Post that denied any Messianic Prophecy is found in Isaiah 53:

When you include a statement like this in your Opening Post you greatly diminish any claim you might make or have to knowing something about its subject:

“…you may start to assume that Isaiah is speaking of a singular person in his verses and make the mistake to think that this could be some ridiculous prophecy of Jesus like the sons of Satan i.e. the Greco-Roman Church has instilled in us since they stole all of the Hebrew manuscripts, and re-wrote them in their own pagan Greek languages.”

Thanks to the providential preservation of an entire scroll of the book of Isaiah found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, we have in that scroll a copy of the Hebrew text of that book which pre-dates all other extant Hebrew scrolls/manuscripts by a thousand years.

That ancient Hebrew scroll has only a very few minor differences from the Hebrew text printed in Hebrew Bibles today. This demonstrates the extreme care and accuracy of the intervening copyists who for all those years and more (until the days of the movable type printing press) preserved for us what the original text contained.

The same care was given in the careful copying and preservation of the New Testament manuscripts.

As for your diatribe against the Messianic Prophecy interpretation of Isaiah 53, you are entirely mistaken. There are ancient Jewish interpreters of this passage who regarded it as predictive prophecy of a coming Messiah.

For those who wish to honestly search the Scriptures for themselves, I share below just a portion of my list of the Messianic Prophecies from the Topic Number Index in my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, “Messianic Prophecy,” topic numbers 1874–1976, on pages 1504-1505 of the first printing (2023), pages 1604-1605 of the first edition (1992) that relate to Isaiah 53:

1895. Messiah to be a healer of many. Isaiah 53:5.

1897. Messiah to be known and to save by His knowledge. Isaiah 53:11.

1899. Messiah to confound His questioners. Isaiah 52:13.

1906. Messiah to be sinless. Isaiah 53:9.

1908. The innocence and meekness of the Messiah. Isaiah 53:7.

1910. Messiah to be without guile [deceit]. Isaiah 53:9.

1938. Messiah to be led as a lamb to the slaughter. Isaiah 53:7.

1939. Messiah to be dumb (silent) before His accusers. Isaiah 53:7.

1940. Messiah to be guiltless. Isaiah 53:9.

1941. Justice was to be denied the Messiah. Isaiah 53:8.

1942. Messiah to be rejected by His own people. Isaiah 53:3.

1945. Messiah to be smitten. Isaiah 53:4.

1948. Messiah to be wounded and bruised. Isaiah 53:5.

1952. Messiah to be crucified with thieves. Isaiah 53:12.

1973. Messiah to be cut off in the prime of life at the time specified. Isaiah 53:8.

1974. Messiah to be buried in a rich man’s tomb. Isaiah 53:9.

At each of those verses in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I give the cross references to the other relevant Bible passages which shed further light on each verse.

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