SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/27/2013
7:45 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Introduction
to Climbing Mount Everest
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
52:13-15
Message of the
verses: It was last Sunday morning
at our Church service from First Baptist Church in Elyria, Ohio that our
Pastor, who has been speaking on the life of David for close to a year, on and
off, spoke about the providence of God as seen in the life of David when David
was fleeing from his son Absalom. God’s providence
is seen in the lives of all believers as our Sovereign God is in control of all
things and causes all things to work together for good for those who are His
own. I am not sure what the significance
of having my study go from the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel, which we
have been looking at since the fifteenth of November and now going into what
Warren Wiersbe calls “the Mt. Everest of messianic prophecy,” which is covered
in Isaiah 52:13-53:12.” That is just how
it worked out as I make my way through the Bible, but I do have to stop and
praise the Lord for it working out the way it has. I have heard it stated that the ninth chapter
of Daniel is the greatest prophecy that is found in the OT, and whether or not
I agree with that or not does not take away from what Bible scholars have
stated about it. Then there are two
major prophecies that speak about the Messiah’s death of which Isaiah
52:13-53:12 is one of them along with the 22nd Psalm which also
speaks of the death of the Messiah as if one was standing at the foot of the
cross when the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified.
This section of Isaiah is the forth Servant poem and the
one that most people know the best. Dr.
Wiersbe is quoting Bible scholar Dr. Kyle M. Yates when speaking of this
section being the Mt. Everest of Messianic prophecy. Dr. Wiersbe goes on to write “This passage is
at the heart of chapters 49-57, and its message is at the heart of the
Gospel. Like Mt. Everest, Isaiah 53
stands out in beauty and grandeur, but only because it reveals Jesus Christ and
takes us to Mt. Calvary.”
I have
heard before that Jewish rabbis have said that this section of Scripture is
written about the sufferings of the nation of Israel, but I did not realize
that this is just what 20th century rabbis said about it and earlier
rabbis thought it was speaking about the Messiah. A careful look at this section will show that
this is written about the Jewish Messiah and fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ
while on the earth.
Dr. Wiersbe states that Isaiah 53 is quoted or alluded to
in the New Testament more frequently than any other Old Testament chapter. He goes on to write “The index of quotations
in the appendix of my Greek New Testament gives at least forty-one different
citations, and this may not be all of them.
“The fifteen verses that comprise the fourth Servant Song
fall into five stanzas of three verses each, and each of these stanzas reveals
an important truth about the Servant and what He accomplished for us.” This of course is the outline that we will be
following as we go through these fifteen verses in the next few days or weeks,
I am not sure how long it will take, but this is a section of Scripture that we
want to take our time going through and savor all that is in it.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I can think of no better
time than to begin our journey through these fifteen verses than that day, for
I am surely thankful for the truth that we will discover as we look at this
fourth of the Servant poems from the pen of Isaiah.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “The tempter (The Devil)”
(Matthew 4:3.
Today’s Bible Question “In
what country was Cana?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/27/2013 8:18 PM
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