THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH
THE SERVANT SONGS FROM ISAIAH –
PART IV
ISAIAH 52:13-15 AMP.


BEHOLD! MY SERVANT!

The Servant Songs of Jehovah’s Servant are prophetic of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. God the Father approved His Son as His Servant to bring redemption to mankind and gave us this picture of His Servant’s perfect character. Jesus, in His own words, said, I and the Father are one,” attesting that He was indeed GOD (John 30:30). The Jews recognized His claim to be GOD and wanted to stone Jesus for ‘this offense’ of blasphemy because He ‘a mere man’ would make Himself equal with GOD (John 10:33). Again Jesus claimed to be GOD when He told the Jews, “I tell you the truth before Abraham was born I AM! (John 8:58). And again, they wanted to stone Him for blasphemy. Jesus, by announcing His identity as “I AM” is a direct application of the Old Testament name for GOD (Exodus 3:14), which the Jews would have recognized as His claim of being GOD.

It is important to recognize that Jesus Christ was, indeed, GOD. Only GOD in the flesh could be the sin sacrifice, the perfect Lamb, required by GOD the Father to atone for mankind’s sin and disobedience and to bring redemption to mankind. Only GOD could pay mankind’s debt; only Jesus, a Man in the flesh, could die and shed His blood. John 1:1 says “the Word was God,” and John 1:14 says “the Word became flesh.” This clearly identifies that Jesus is GOD in the flesh, Immanuel (GOD with us). Thomas, when He saw the resurrected LORD declared, “My LORD and my GOD! (John 20:28). The apostle Paul describes Jesus as “our great GOD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST” (Titus 2:13), while the apostle Peter says, “our GOD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST” (2nd Peter 1:1). Old Testament prophecies announced His deity, “For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty GOD, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). GOD the Father testifies of His Son, “Thy throne, O GOD, is forever and ever: the sceptre of Thy kingdom is a right sceptre” [of righteous power and authority]. “You loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: therefore GOD, Thy GOD [the Father], has anointed You [Messiah] with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows” (Psalm 45:6, 7). GOD the Father has given Messiah, Jesus Christ, a kingdom and asked Him to people it with righteous men and women, who have come through faith, believing in Messiah as their Way of Salvation. Jesus’ deity is why He is the only way of salvation, as He declares, “I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father” [GOD] “except through Me” [GOD the Son and Servant of the Father] (John 14:6). And the Holy Spirit comes to accomplish all the Words spoken by the Father and Son.



ISAIAH 52:13-15 AMP.
SERVANT SONG - PART IV

(v13) “Behold, My Servant shall deal wisely
and shall prosper” [deal prudently],
“He shall be exalted and extolled,
and shall stand very high.

• “Behold, My Servant shall deal wisely and shall prosper.” “Prosper” is the Hebrew word “sakal,” and is used in 1st Samuel 18:5 as “behaved wisely;” in Deuteronomy 29:9 and Joshua 1:7, as “prosper;” in Joshua 1:8, as “good success,” in Isaiah 52:13, as “deal prudently;” and in Daniel 9:25, as “understand.” The Servant of GOD’S task was to bring Israel back to GOD, raise up the tribes in Israel, be a light to the Gentiles, be salvation to all the earth, be for a blood covenant of the people, establish the earth by restoring the waste places of the earth, loose prisoners from spiritual bondage, free men from darkness, and guide men to their eternal destiny (Isaiah 49:3-10). Messiah, being found in the form of Man, was rejected, despised, smitten, and wounded for the salvation of mankind, for the saving of the nations. As Jesus meekly suffered all the pain of His false arrests, cruel, merciless beatings, vicarious sufferings from the crown of thorns, and unjust crucifixion, which drained His life blood from Him, He knew the Father would exalt Him to the highest position of leadership, above all powers and principalities, to accomplish the purposes and plans of ALMIGHTY GOD. His exaltation was planned before the world existed. His inhuman humiliation and vicarious suffering was the meek obedience to the Father GOD to see GOD’S high purposes accomplished:
• (1) mankind’s Salvation realized and
• (2) Messiah’s ultimate exaltation recognized by every creature, and by every nation, as He becomes King of kings and LORD of lords over all.
• The holy, anointed One was given a name above all names that every creature, great and small, shall bow their knee and give JESUS CHRIST glory as Majesty and King of the earth, the heavens, and the universe.
• “He shall be exalted and extolled, and shall stand very high.” The book of Hebrews 1:2-4, 8 expresses Messiah’s exalted position: GOD “has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” “Unto the Son, He [God the Father] has said, Thy throne, O God is forever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.” There is coming a day soon when an angel will say, “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD, and of His CHRIST; and He shall reign forever and ever in His position as LORD and MASTER of the Universe (Revelation 11:15).

(v14) “For many the Servant of GOD became an
object of horror;
many were astonished. His face and His whole
appearance [His visage] was marred
more than any man’s and
His form beyond that of the sons of men…”

Many people looking upon Messiah [Jesus\Yeshua] were so astonished at the horrible way His visage was marred more than that of any other man, and His pathetic form, covered in blood from horrible physical mutilation, was more terrible to look upon than any other son of men. He, the holy One, was “the Man of Sorrows.” Those looking at Him were so stunned and shocked by His dreadful appearance that they hid their agitated faces from Him in frightful disgust when they saw His horrific, exhaustive agonies, as JEHOVAH GOD (the Father) made Messiah’s righteous soul an offering for sin (Isaiah 53). There are really no words to say how terrible and repugnant His visage was to those witnessing His sufferings, struggles, and death. Messiah (Jesus/Yeshua) had no personal sin, sickness, pain, or suffering for His own self, but the exhaustive ‘fasting’ to hear His Father’s voice, perpetual ‘watching’ for the Father’s exact timing, and intense ‘praying’ for mankind took a toil on His appearance, too. The pure, innocent Lamb of GOD came into the world to carry OUR sin, OUR sorrows, and OUR sufferings by taking them upon Himself and bearing them unto death so that we might be free from sin and sorrow. The pure, holy One became sin. Being touched ‘by sin’ must have been more horrible than even the physical, mental, and emotional suffering the Righteous One went through. The Righteous One that knew no sin became sin (our sin) and was then judged by the Holy Father GOD, the Judge of the whole earth. Only the Son of God could have lived through all the beatings and humiliations in word and deed that Messiah went through. No one could take His life, for He was GOD, but He G A V E His Life that mankind might be free to worship the Almighty GOD and Him, the Son, in the liberty of the Holy Spirit.


v15) “So shall He startle and sprinkle many nations;
The kings shall shut their mouths because of Him:
For that which has not been told them shall they see;
And that which they have not heard shall they consider and understand."

Christ Jesus will startle many with fright as they look at the brightly lit sky and see the glorious appearing of His second coming (Titus 2:13). All nations (Israel and all Gentile nations) of the earth will mourn because they have not believed in Him, as they see Jesus Christ, as the LORD of HOST, the GREAT GENERAL, come with His armies of angels and saints to defeat His contentious enemy at Armageddon. The LORD, with ten thousands of His saints, comes to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him (Jude 14, 15) …and sprinkle many nations (those that repent and accept His righteousness). Here is the opportunity for the nations that have come against Jesus to repent and be born-again of the SPIRIT of GOD.
• The LORD GOD is a GOD of mercy and this verse concerning “the sprinkling of the nations” means that those nations now have their ‘last’ opportunity to recognize Him for ‘who He is’ before judgment is passed on them. The gentile nations and Israel finally see that the Messiah, the LORD of heaven and earth, King of the Universe, having the preeminence in all things, is the PRINCE OF LIFE. The ‘BLOOD OF JESUS’, which brings ‘forgiveness, peace, and eternal life’, that was shed for all mankind has never lost its power. The Second Coming of Christ is a manifestation of His love, for He is the “Resurrection” and the “Life.” Now those nations can receive Messiah as LORD and Saviour and have His blood sprinkled on them for deliverance and salvation. The nations recognizing Jesus as Messiah, accepting His salvation, and His sprinkling His blood over them, probably, happens in a moment of time. Yet, after the battle of Armageddon, there will be lots of ‘mop up.’ “Immediately” after the tribulation, when the enemy has been dealt with, then King Jesus sends His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (Matthew 24:29-31). “His elect” is the Jewish elect and any tribulation saints that have believed in Him and accepted His blood sacrifice. This is not the ‘Church,’ for the Church has already been raptured to heaven and come back with Him. Then shall King Jesus sit upon the throne of His glory, as the Millennium begins and He takes the government of the world upon His shoulders once and for all: and before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from another…those that have accepted His blood covenant sacrifice and those who, like goats, refuse His sacrifice and still believe a lie. He will separate them as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, those nations that have been sprinkled with the blood of His covenant, “Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 26:31-34). The Millennium is a period of Universal Righteousness upheld by the Word of His power and by the ever “effective” blood of the Lamb. Christ will unite the hearts of fathers and sons, all children and parents will be turned toward one another; families will be united in Christ; the Holy Spirit will be outpoured upon all flesh and even all of Israel will be saved a result of the ministry of Elijah and Enoch, God’s two witnesses in the last days (Malachi4:5-6; Rev. 11:3-10; Acts 2:16-21; Rom. 11:25-29; Isa. 66:7-8 and other prophecy will literally be fulfilled.)





THERE IS NO APPEAL FROM SPIRITUAL DEATH ONCE YOU ARE DEAD!

However, as long as you live in this world, you can still choose to receive eternal life by accepting Jesus Christ. Even though you are spiritually dead and are living separated from GOD, you can be made spiritually alive in this world and enjoy eternal life now and in the world to come. Once you have died, however, there is no way to come back and receive Jesus. There is no appeal from the second death, which is separation from GOD forever.
• Won’t you take this opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as your LORD and SAVIOUR today, while it is still called today?