727 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 61 - Isaiah 51-53

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 61 ISAIAH 51 - 53 Once again we’re going to get right back into Isaiah chapter 53. We might as well go back to verse one again, we just closed the last program with it, but in Isaiah 53 verse 1, now remember this is the great chapter foretelling Christ’s death and suffering and yet Israel never comprehended it before nor were they expected to. Isaiah 53:1-2a Now use a little imagination. Isaiah 53:2b Isaiah 53:2c Now to speak of that "branch out of dryground" come back in Isaiah to chapter 11 because I think it behooves us to just constantly compare Scripture with Scripture so that we can understand the language. Isaiah 11:1 Isaiah 53:3a Isaiah 53:3b "…a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:…" I think it was three years of utter seriousness, realizing the heart-cry of a lost people. Lost. Lost out there on the desert with no shepherd. It was just so sorrowful that the vast majority of Israel were like sheep out in the desert without a shepherd. Isaiah 53:3c Israel! We’re not talking about the Gentile world back here. We’re talking only in terms of the nation of Israel. As the Messiah, the King, the Redeemer! Isaiah 53:4 "Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted." Now let’s just look at a verse all the way back to I Peter chapter 2 verse 21. James and Peter and John and Jude and as well as Revelation, they were all written to the nation of Israel. I Peter 2:21-22 Now granted, Peter is writing here to Jews, but let’s see how Paul puts it in II Corinthians chapter 5, and you can see again that the God of Israel is also the God of the whole world. But in order to understand Scripture, we have to understand when God is addressing Israel, and when He is addressing the world as a whole. Whereas Peter is writing to Jews. (Now remember the God of verse 20 is the "He" of verse 21) II Corinthians 5:21 For he (God ) hath made him (Christ) to be sin for us, (He) who knew no sin; (See how that rings a bell with Peter?) that we ( the whole world, not just Israel now under Peters’ pen, but) that we (the world) might be made the righteousness of God in him." In Israel’s Messiah. Jesus of Nazareth. Remember Peter is writing to the nation of Israel. Verse 23, and here this comes right out of Isaiah 53, same words: I Peter 2:23a I Peter 2:23b-24 We’re talking about spiritual healing, sin sick souls! I Peter 2:25a "(this is all Jewish language) For you were as sheep going astray;…" "You are like sheep who have gone astray." Well when do sheep go astray? When there’s no shepherd. I Peter 2:25b "…but now you are returned unto the Shepherd (which is their Messiah because Peter’s writing to Jewish believers remember?) Which was a trust in Jesus the Messiah. See now Peter could understand what Isaiah 53 was talking about, but before the cross, he couldn’t.Crucifixion was unknown. All right, back to Isaiah chapter 53 verse 6. Again a reference to the sheep. Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep (that’s Israel) have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD (the God of Creation, the Triune Creator God) has laid on him (God the Son) the iniquity of us all." I Corinthians 15:1 Now remember Paul is writing to Gentile believers at Corinth so they had been recipients of this Gospel. Now verse 2. "…if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed " In other words, Paul said, you’ve got to understand what we’re talking about. I’m afraid multitudes are going into an eternal doom, good people, fine people, church members, choir singers, Sunday School teachers, but they’ve never believed this Gospel for their salvation. I Corinthians 15:3 "For I delivered unto you first of all, all that which I received, (in other words, Paul’s revelation from the ascended Christ that now this work of the cross becomes God’s Gospel of the Grace of God) how that Christ died for our sins according to (what?) the scripture;" Now what Scripture? Isaiah 53, as well as a few others. But Isaiah 53 made it so plain that the Messiah would suffer at the hands of mortal men for the salvation of the human race. It’s the Gospel! Because few people are understanding that that is what saves lost sinners. In a little different understanding. Because he’s approaching the whole human race whereas Peter back here is considering the nation of Israel. Isaiah is only addressing the Jew. Isaiah 53:6a "All we like sheep have gone astray;…" and Israel is always referred to as the sheep of the fold. Israel is always depicted at the sheep of the fold. Isaiah 53:6b Those 99 sheep and where did they go? All right, reading on: Isaiah 53:6c-7a All right, now that’s why Scripture uses that analogy. Isaiah 53:7 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible