The author of Isaiah explains how God will redeem Jerusalem by introducing the mysterious figure of the suffering servant whose appearance is disfigured beyond that of any human being (52:14). Who is this suffering servant? And how will such a weakened person achieve a great victory, even bringing light to all nations? Jewish scholars puzzled over these passages for centuries. Many considered them the most significant part of the Hebrew Scriptures, yet they could not agree on precisely what the prophet meant.
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The author of Isaiah explains how God will redeem Jerusalem by introducing the mysterious figure of the suffering servant whose appearance is disfigured beyond that of any human being (52:14). Who is this suffering servant? And how will such a weakened person achieve a great victory, even bringing light to all nations? Jewish scholars puzzled over these passages for centuries. Many considered them the most significant part of the Hebrew Scriptures, yet they could not agree on precisely what the prophet meant.
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If you had been a jew in Jesus' day, would you have been disappointed in the messiah? Why did Jesus choose to come as a suffering servant rather than as perhaps a triumphant army general?
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As we dive into the Bible, I read a chapter a week, or every two weeks, or once a month, or whatever the flow of me coming on this podcast and actually reading a chapter with you, my cousin through Christ can pick up the Bible anytime, and read the stories. And if I must admit, the stories are really interesting. And they're really profound to understanding what God is doing in our lives today individually. Because how He will speak to someone may not be the same, how she will speak to another one. And I say he she because God has both them. And he created them in His likeness, which is both men and women. And so I'm so grateful to be here as your cousin through Christ, to read the Bible to read the stories to just dive in deep and just understand what God is saying to me. And I just hope that you build a relationship with God, so God can start speaking to you. And you can start speaking to God in ways that you just know that your best friend. So today's episodes, you guys will be in a book of Isaiah. And it will be chapter 52, you can simply read along, you can grab your Bibles and join or you can listen, it is totally up to you, this episode would not be visual, because I was not ready or prepared. And I'm just not really fun to the whole visual thing right now. Because God is still working on me. But that's no excuse of me saying that I was gonna go visual and be visual and things like that. I'm thinking maybe I spoke too fast. And maybe I just got over my head, and I'm in my head too deep, where I'm not able to execute this the way that I see it out. But I'm praying for guidance. And I'm praying that God renew my mind, and re strengthen my capacity of understanding that he's always in control. She's always in control. And I'm not that I just need to fall and lean on the Lord, you know, wholeheartedly. And that's just something that I've been battling with, I just want to be honest, because I know people like to walk around and act like they're perfect. And things like that. And I'm just so far from me. And I want to express that here. So that, you know, just as your cousin and Christ man, we all Forsch we all fall short of something. And so I'm really sorry. And I apologize for my listeners, because I really do want to go visual, and I'm just praying for a better outcome and a timing when I can really do this and do it consecutively. And do it consistently. That's one thing that I don't like is not being consistent with this podcast or my visuals. So yes, please excuse me as I go into deeper prayer, and deeper communicating with God, and just asking for the Lord to continue to guide my steps and, you know, order, order my positions and things like that. So you guys, we will just be having this podcast today. So the podcast is good for listening. When you're riding in a car, when you really want to get into the Bible Arges hear another person's insight of what they think of the stories that's portrayed in the Bible and how they feel. God is talking to them. And that's exactly what I'm doing here. So grab your Bibles, I'm going to talk too much. We will be in Isaiah 52. I went over Isaiah 52 basically trying to get an understanding and in context of what Isaiah was talking to me about. So I went to Isaiah 51. And then I read Isaiah 52, but I only read it one time and since then, you know I just been asking God to just go deeper into my understanding of what Isaiah is talking to me about. So you guys, we will be in Isaiah 52 today, and if you are ready, I am ready to and Let's go. The chapter I'm sorry, I didn't even tell you guys a chapter of our title today the chapter of our episode is called salvation, prophesied. Salvation prophesied. That is the chapter that is the title of our chapter. And again, if you're ready, I'm ready. Let's go. Awake, awake Zion, clothed yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the Holy City, the uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. Shake off your does rise up, sit in throne, Jerusalem, free yourself from the chains on your neck, daughter, Zion, now a captive. For this is what the Lord says, You were sold for nothing, and without money, you will be redeemed. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says, At first, my people went down to Egypt to live lately, I Sariah has oppressed them. And now what do I have here? declares the Lord, for my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them Mark declares the Lord. And all day long, my name is constantly blasting me. Therefore my people will know my name. Therefore, in that day, they will know that it is I who foretold it, yes, it is i How beautiful on the mountains or the feet of those who bring good news who proclaim peace who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation who say to Zion, your God, rain if the to seven beautiful feet, Isaiah portrays the joy of carrying good news to those desperately hoping for it, perhaps a city waiting for news of a battle in which all their young men were at risk. But Isaias news is not a war. It is of God's people returning from exile, with the Lord Himself leading the way. And Romans 10. In Romans 1015, Paul apply this joyful cheer to the messengers who like himself for the good news of Jesus Christ. Verse eight, listen, your watchmen lift up their voices. Together, they shout for joy. And when the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes, burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem, the Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all nations, and, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. depart, depart, go out from their touch, no unclean thing, come out from it and be pure. You carry the articles of the Lord's house, but you will not leave in haste or go in flights for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard, the suffering and glory of the servant, verse 13. See, my servant will act wisely, he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him. His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being, and his form mirrored beyond human likeness. So he will sprinkle many nations and kings will shut their mouths because of him for what they were not told, they will see and what they have not heard, they will understand. And that's the end of our chapter, very short. And, again, it's a run in from chapter 51. So if you kind of would like to go and read chapter 51, please be my guest. And that way you can understand the context of what is taking place in chapter 52. God is telling Xi'an to rise up, he is speaking to Jerusalem in ways that he is trying to explain to them like what had been done to Jesus was a prophecy. So if we go into deeper context of chapter 52, it says, the suffering servant, who is this mysterious figure, and I wouldn't know this if I had not went into chapter 50 want to understand like who is this person who was disfigured who was so bad and if you guys remember the story of what they did to Jesus, when he when they flogged him, and they beat him really bad. This is this is the mysterious person that they're talking about. They're talking about Jesus Christ, when they beat him up and they flogged him in I disfigured him so bad that he was not even lickable he, like people were looking like he was very beat up real bad like he you couldn't even recognize him. He was so disfigured he was so unhuman like, he was just very, very nasty because of the way the what they did to him. So this is the disfigured that the Lord is talking about. I just want to kind of give context on that. So the suffering servant who is this mysterious figure? Chapter 52, verse 13, see, my servant will act wisely, he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Isaiah is four songs about a suffering servant, are among the richest and most closely studied passages in the Old Testament. 40 to One, I'm sorry, chapter 42, one through nine, chapter 49, one through 13 Chapter, Chapter 54 through nine, chapter 5213 and chapter 53, verse 12. This chapter illustrates why the Servant Songs sparked fierce debates among the rabbies seeking to understand it. The first parts there's anticipation for glory, time when God will restore the holy city and people will shout to Jerusalem, your God reigns and 52 Seven, it looks as if Israel will gain revenge on his enemies at last. But the author goes on to explain how God will redeem Jerusalem by introducing the mysterious figure of the suffering servant, who apparently is disfigured beyond that of any human being. Chapter 52 Verse 14, who is this suffering survey? And how will such a weakened person achieve a great victory, even bringing light to all nations Jewish scholars puzzled over these passage for centuries, many considered them the most significant part of the entire Hebrew scripture, yet they could not agree on exactly what the prophet meant a nation or a person. Sometimes the verse speaks of the servant as a nation of Israel as a whole. You are my servant, Israel and whom I will display my splendor. In chapter 49, verse three. In other places, the servant seems to refer to a specific individual, a great leader who suffers terribly. Isaiah presents the servant as the deliverer of all humankind. Yet, it portrays him as more of a tragic fifth figure than a hero. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth, he was led like a lamb to the slaughter. In or in chapter 53, seven. That's where that passage come from. An answer from the New Testament, the idea of the suffering servant did not really catch on in the Jewish nation. They longed for a victorious Messiah, not a suffering one, the image of the suffering servant went underground as it were lying dormant for centuries. And a very dramatic scene early in His ministry, Jesus quoted from one of the sermon passages in i from one of the servant passages in Isaiah, then he wrote up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fasting on him. And he began saying to them, today, this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. And that was in Luke, chapter four, verse 20, through one. At last, a link snapped into place for some, but not for all of Jesus listeners, the Messiah had come at last, not as a conquering general, but as a carpenter's son from Nazareth. So the last question is, if you have been a Jew, in Jesus day, would you have been disappointed in the Messiah? Why did Jesus Why did Jesus choose to come as a suffering servant, rather than as perhaps a triumph at Army? General? I don't think Jesus had a choice. In this part of the question. Why did Jesus choose to come as a servant, a suffering servant? Jesus didn't have a choice. That was all God's doing. When you don't have a choice, and it's God's plan. You have to go with it. And that's why God said, My servant will come and be exalt. Let me go back and make sure we're on 13. He said, My servant will act wisely. He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. And that was in verse 13. Is you Because Jesus didn't have a choice, his choice was to come, be obedient and act wisely to the words of God, whatever God told him, that was between Jesus and God. Now, if I was a, if I was born in those days of the Jew when Jesus was alive, I ain't gonna lie. If I didn't have the same mindset that I have today, I probably will be obviously in their mindset and their brain, I think I probably would have been disappointed. Because when you think of a messiah, you think of like this great king, or this great warrior, or this great person coming to, you know, save you or whatever. So you don't really get the understanding of the context that Jesus came as a carpenter's son, as a son of a carpenter, you know, from Nazareth, and you really don't get like, you wouldn't get that he's this great, fierce King that came from God, if you I know, I'm talking about me, if I would have been born in those days, I would have been like, Who is this scrawny little guy come and talk about He's the Messiah, I think I would have had questions for sure. Only because just times are different. But now as I'm in these times, and these New Age times, and I'm able to read the stories and, and, and understand some and, you know, talk to God and get more context of what's going on. Outside of me, that's happening in the spiritual realm, you know, that that comes with that relationship with God, and it's just trusting God, when God tells you to do something, do it. And I spoke about that. I spoke on that the last episode, but me, you know, I will feel like, what is this Messiah doing? And in the way they did him so dirty? The Jewish community, you know, they did Jesus just so Oh, they did, I'm so dirty, they didn't so wrong. Because they didn't like that he was the Messiah, they just, oh, if you go deep into the Bible, it really opens up to show you how people, it shows you how people how humanity can really be. So I think for me, you know, I would have wanted a soldier like person. But that would have just been in those days and a Jew, I'm so happy that I was not born in those times. And, you know, I mean, probably I was, you know, I probably was reincarnated, you know, to a new person who I am today. But it's just, you know, it's amazing when I go into the stories, because some stories are kind of like, what, what is he talking about? But there was a passage here, in the in the Bible, where I've seen preachers preach this. But I see they preach it for their own context of understanding how to deliver it to people, and it's just so important to really pick up the Bible and read the stories are so because the messages go into each, each of us separately and differently, and we can come together and understand that sometimes stories and context of way of your perspective is different. And, and I like to hear other people's understanding on certain chapters when I read it, and I hear it again from other people, and I like to hear how they thought about the story or what God is talking to them about, that they could deliver out to me. But when he spoke on Zion and Tozai Yana wake up, he was speaking as ayat and if you go into chapter 51, when God said Zion when he called her, Zion her it was like, I think he was talking to me because I'm a female right and so sometimes when you hear he heard you kind of put yourself in that situation and and see you know, what is God's telling me about? So wake up, wake up, Ziad. Close yourself with strength, put all your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the Holy City. He did. He did say like her. That's it. I was hurt. But I just feel like it's just like, women like me in general, like me, like, wake up, wake up, put on my strength, you know, put on clothes myself with strength because the world can tackle you and hurt you so bad that you forget how strong you are. You forget that God has installed you with the strength that you can overcome and be anything. And this is anything that we go through. From depression, to anxiety to financial debt, to family matters. Anything that you could be going through God has clothed you with the strength he just tells us to put it on. But it's crazy to me because like I've been feeling weak lately, either. I'm filling in, you know, unworthy not of God, but just being here on Earth, wondering what my purpose is, because I like to serve people I like to give back. But I haven't been in my element where I'm able to do that. And I know I've been battling with myself, that I just been feeling weak and to go over the passage and to really, you know, put on your clothes yourself with strength, is like, it's a reminder to me is like, grow, get up, wake up, clothe yourself with strength, you know what I'm saying, Put on your garments of splendor, like I am splinting, I am a great person, I'm a great human. And I just want to continue to come out of my shell, because he needs to be this great person that I was that I am in God's eyes. And so I just continue to ask God to work with me, not just work with me, but install things in me that I'm unfamiliar with, installed new, new thoughts and me like renew my mindset, renew my spirit, bringing a fresh breath of fresh spirit of the Holy Spirit to continue to guide me, and continue to me to look to you even through all of my downs, and my upset when I'm feeling like I don't know, to do like my visuals and my podcasts and everything. And it's just so easy a person to like, you know, just get up and do it. But it's a lot that comes with being just confident and secure, and strong. And what you are putting out there, because I am reading the Bible, and judgment does come from the community of humanity to people who think that because you read the Bible, or you have a relationship with God, that you cannot live, everyday life, or you cannot wear the clothes you wear or do the things you do or hang with people you hang. It's just like, people have their own mindset of how they want to install the Bible on you or install God's words on you. Or they look down on you. And people don't like to admit, but it really will mess with your, your spirit, it messes with your understanding of that God is taking you just exactly the way you are messed up, not messed up, or whatever the case may be like God accept you just the way that you are. And it's other people's ideas and opinions that are being placed on us, that make us think that God's God is not on our side. So the suffering servant, I really understood who that was, because that was Jesus. And I didn't understand that first. Because I didn't go into context of you know, a suffering servant. But like God said, My servant will be raised and lifted highly, and he will be exalted. My servant will act wisely, act wisely, that is so key, how to act wisely. And that wisely it just, it just made me think like, you know, just to continue to look to God. However, you identify your God, I showbusiness. I wasn't born in the Jerusalem times. I'm not from Jerusalem. I'm not from Israel. But I know many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many years, my people has descended from these areas. And you know, just being a woman, just being a woman, a woman of God, and someone who's able to give birth and not just birth children, but birth life back into people, whether it's motivation, encouragement, anything like that, you know, as a woman to get up and clothe myself with strength. I think that was key words for me is get up, wake up, wake up, you know, every day, wake up, and clothe yourself with strength, because God has gave him gave me that garment to close myself. So I don't need to fall weak and short to anybody, our society, or beyond the timing of anybody, our society, because it's always God's timing, like right now, this present moment, Yesterday is the past is not here anymore. Tomorrow's the future. I don't know what it holds. So right now, right here, I'm going to be in God's presence. And I'm going to put on my strength. Because there was a person who came and died for my sins. There was a person who came and took on all of the negative things of people what they have to say, and they flogged him and that person was Jesus, who died for my sins on the cross. And, unfortunately, what they did to him as a result of my greatness today is a reason why I can say, No weapon formed against me shall prosper. And every time raised against me should be laid in a hell of the pit of hell, you know, you would not you would not Put yourself on me are, you're not even just that, like me, myself putting so much pressure on myself, Do this, do that, or you got to do this or you got to do that to look a certain way or to be known from people. It's like, No, I'm human, I make mistakes. I'm not always on point, not always on time. I'm not always looking for the King of the Kings. And I'm not always looking for the servant. But I'm right here trying to figure things out for me and understand that, you know, God is working with me on an individual basis, just like he's working with everybody on an individual basis. So yeah, I wouldn't have probably accepted the Messiah back in those days, because those times were different. But I'm very grateful and glad that God sent his servant, to be very obedient and wise, and act out, according to what God had planned for him. So it was already prophesied. And I'm just, I'm just very grateful. Not always am I gonna be here on the podcast, but I'm here as much as I can be. And I just thank God that I had this opportunity. Because if you don't know, now, you know that you have been rocking with your cousin and Christ, one trial of it. And I hope that actually you get a relationship with God, it's so important to have that relationship with God, Oh, my goodness, I can't stress that enough. I can't stress that enough. That it'd be so funny and crazy to me. Because, you know, you can listen all day to the stories of the Bible, but to act on what God is telling you is like, super key. And even though sometimes, in my mind, I think I gotta do this, I gotta do that. No, I got to do this, I got to do that. And when I talk to God gotta be like, No, I just want you to talk with me, or I just want you to sit with me, I want you to take on what's happening around you. I want you to help spy like He guides you throughout the day. It's called a daily bread, something that he feeds you and give you things to do that day. And I never want to go outside of today, the present day, any day that I'm given, and think that I have it figured out because I don't. So you guys, thank you guys, for rocking with me. I'm sorry. Today's episode was not visual. I'm gonna try to do a visual next week. But I can't promise you guys anything. But I'm going to try to just keep this podcast going. Because the Bible is of the story. The stories of the Bible are really, really great for us. And not just one, not just two, but for all of us from all nations all over the world. And every language that comes. The Bible has this context where people just wants to put their own thing on it. And that's why I say it's so good to read the Bible on your own and just see what God is talking to you about. And you guys, you guys, were rocking with me once relevant on bougie Bible study. Until next time, you guys don't forget to check us out on social media. blessed to be as on Instagram, bougie Bible studies on Facebook, hey, not really going on there, but it will come sooner rather than later. Okay. One thing I do trust is God and I trust God with my whole heart. I don't trust myself as much as I trust God. And it's so crazy and true to say that but I'm honest. So until next time, you guys, I will talk to you next week. Bye.