Hello chair,
Sorry I didn't get back with you sooner, but Tuesdays are busy for me right now. Thank
you for reading and then posting to help me avoid repeating what you've gone through
before.
1) You're right. The Bible doesn't mention who this is, just a servant of God. I asked you
to read these verses not to say this is Messiah, but to say that God's servant bore the
sin of many and interceded for the transgressors (sinners). The main reason I had you
read this now was to point out that to God, the sin issue has to be resolved and that He
would provide His own servant as a resolutioin to that issue.
2) If you want to accept that this is Messiah, that the New Testament is true and that
Jesus is Messiah, God bless you and this would be a really short discussion. I don't
and won't assume that you would accept this.
I won't insult your intelligence or mine. If I'm not mistaken, you, like me, want more than
a man's word to accept something as truth. At this time, I wouldn't try to argue that this
is the Messiah, because the Bible doesn't say it is. It doesn't say this is Jesus either,
this says that this (Is. 52:13) is God's servant. For me to say "if it isn't Jesus, who is it?"
would be showing my ignorance of the Bible. The Bible doesn't name who this is and
neither will I. (I'm wanting to you to tell me who it is, that's why I accepted your
challenge.
I reread Isaiah 10 through Isaiah 12 in order to get context ( remember, everything in
context), and find that this is prophesy. A wonderful prophesy that we are still waiting for.
Yes I believe that this is a Messianic prophesy as does Jews for Judism.com. We read
in Is. 11:1 that a shoot will come form the stump of Jesse. Messiah will be a decendant
of Jesse. As we read further in verse 10 "In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a
banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious."
I'll come back to that point later. As to do I honestly believe that this refers to Jesus,
I'll answer that a little later in another post. I'm not going to draw any conclusions before
I've presented the case you asked for.
Next, I ask you to read Isaiah 9 verses 1 through 7. Is this a Messianic prophesy? We'll
discuss this a little further tomorrow. Thursdays are an easy day for me. I have 6 hours
to catch up on TOL and all the threads I've been posting to. We'll discuss verses 6 and 7
in a little more detail.
God bless you.