With reference to Isaiah 53, identify seven Messianic prophecies about the suffering servant

      

With reference to Isaiah 53, identify seven Messianic prophecies about the suffering servant

  

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john
Anointed /Spirit - Will be filled by the Spirit of God/Will be anointed by God and sent to preach the good
news/liberate the captives
- Succeed – He would succeed in his work and he will be highly honoured/Yahweh will exalt or vindicate/His
success and honour will surprise many who would witness his suffering/will be allotted
- a portion with the great
- Not attractive/simple/ordinary – He would not have anything attractive/ without beauty/no
comeliness/unnoticeable
- Harshly treated – He would be harshly treated and sentenced to death.
- Wicked men – His body would be buried with the bodies of wicked men/His grave was with made with those of
wicked men.
- Rich man?s tomb – He would be buried in the tomb of a rich man
- Will make intercession for the sinners
- Silence – He will endure silence in all that will be done to him /will open not his mouth/He would not fight back/
He would be like a lamb being led to the slaughter house.
- Substitutional – He will suffer for the sake of others/for the sins of others -“He was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities)Isaiah 53:5 – His suffering was substitutional/Through his
sufferings human beings are reconciled back to God
- God?s will – It was the will of God that the servant should suffer/smitten and afflicted by God
- Forgiveness – His death is a sacrifice to bring forgiveness of sins.
- Submissive – He will submissively bear sufferings and disgrace.
- Sorrows, grief – He will be a man of sorrow acquainted with grief, who bring salvation and justifies many
john3 answered the question on October 24, 2017 at 21:07


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