ISAIAH LESSON 62


     We will begin this lesson in Isaiah 53:1 "Who hath believed our
report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?"

     Isaiah is saying that not anyone , or at least just a handful,
have believed the prophecy that God had given him for this people.
When he asks the question, he is saying, show me one who believes what
I have prophesied through words of God flowing through me. The "Arm of
the LORD" is speaking of Jesus Christ. Isaiah is telling them of the
coming of their long awaited Messiah.

     Isaiah 53:2 "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire
him."

     Speaking of Jesus coming from a "tender plant", shows that His
appearance on this earth would be in the form of a baby. He would grow
to manhood, as other children do. Isaiah speaks of this as if it has
already happened, because it was planned from the foundation of the
world. This tree springs from a root in the ground. Jesus is the "Tree
of Life". He is, also, the Branch. This tree springs from a seemingly
dead root. Jesus was not of the Levitical tribe, which the earthly
priests came from. He was from the tribe of Judah. Romans 15:12 "And
again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall
rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust."
This is that root. As we said in the last lesson, He was not unusually
handsome physically. In the physical, He looked like most of the men
of His times. People did not flow to Jesus because of His flesh, but
because of the Spirit within that flesh. Some historians say He was a
tall slender man, a little hump-shouldered with light sandy red hair
and blue eyes. No one knows for sure. We should not look at Him with
our physical eyes anyhow, we should see the Spirit Man within the
body.

     Isaiah 53:3 "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces
from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

     The Jewish leaders rejected Him. Even His sisters and brothers
did not believe He was Messiah, until after He rose from the grave.
Simon Peter denied Him 3 times in the face of the crucifixion.  Very
few of His followers were with Him at Calvary. The disciples fled,
except for John, whom He entrusted His mother to, and Peter watching
from afar. The women stayed and were with Him at His worst hour. Even
people today, who want to live worldly lives, do not believe in Him.

     Isaiah 53:4  "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted."

     There is a song that says, "I should have been crucified". This
is the true story of it all. It was our sin that nailed Him to the
cross. We know the Jews and the Romans were immediately responsible,
but truly, we all nailed Him to the cross. He was the Substitute for
our sin. Not even the apostles, who had walked and lived with Him
every day, understood the significance of the cross. They thought
Jesus had been defeated, and they fled. One of the thieves hanging
with Him said, If you are the Son of God. He did not believe, either.
The thief on the right recognized Jesus for who He was, and asked
forgiveness. Jesus told Him, today you will be with me in Paradise.
The world thought Jesus was defeated at the cross, when in fact, it
was His greatest victory. He did say, My God, My God, Why hast thou
forsaken me? This statement was when Jesus had the sin of the world on
His body. The face of God was turned away from the sin, not from His
precious Son. The high priest, and others in authority, accused Him of
blaspheming God. John 5:18 "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill
him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that
God was his Father, making himself equal with God."  Little did they
know that Jesus was actually paying the price in full for the sin of
the whole world.

     Isaiah 53:5 "But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he
was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was]
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

     Sin must be paid for by the shedding of blood. Hebrews 9:22 "And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission."  Jesus shed His blood to pay for
our sin. He took our sin upon His body on the cross, and in exchange
gave us a robe of righteousness to wear. The wounds, of course, are
the nails driven into His body. They whipped Him, until the flesh was
very damaged. It was this whipping He took that paid for our healing.
The stripes on His body paid for our healing. We had no peace, until
the King of Peace {Jesus Christ} gave it to us as a gift. Man had been
away from God. Jesus tore down the veil of the temple, which kept the
people away from God. The "temple veil" symbolized the flesh of Jesus.
Jesus opened the way to the Father for each of us. Mark 15:38 "And the
veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom."  He
brought us access to the Father through use of His name.

     Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all."

     Jesus is the great Shepherd, and we Christians are His sheep.
This is speaking of all mankind, because Jesus is the Saviour of all
the people of the earth, not just the Hebrews. Romans 3:23 "For all
have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Just as the first
Adam brought sin unto the lives of every individual, Jesus brought
righteousness. Romans 5:15 "But not as the offence, so also [is] the
free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more
the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many."   Titus 2:14 "Who gave himself for
us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself
a peculiar people, zealous of good works."

     Isaiah 53:7 "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as
a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

     This is fulfilled, when Jesus did not answer back His accusers.
He, of His own free will, was crucified. No one forced Him to do this.
He was fulfilling the law.

     Isaiah 53:8 "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken."

     He was tried during the night. He was judged of the leaders of
the temple and of Herod and Pilate. Pilate and Herod wanted nothing to
do with Him, and tried to get Him released. The leaders of the temple
insisted on Him being crucified. Matthew 27:25 "Then answered all the
people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children."  His
life on this earth was very short, but He lives on in the hearts of
His followers, the Christians. If we belong to Christ, He dwells
within us. He is omnipresent, so while He is in our hearts, He is,
also, seated at the Right Hand of the Father.

     Isaiah 53:9 "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any]
deceit in his mouth."

     There are two things referred to here. He was crucified between
two thieves. The reference to being with the rich in His death has to
do with Joseph of Arimathaea, who came and got Jesus' body, and buried
it in His own grave. It belonged to a rich man, but had never been
used. John 19:38  "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him]
leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. "Because", in
the verse above, could have been better translated although. He had no
sin. He gave His body on the cross for the sin of others.

     Isaiah 53:10  "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put
[him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of
the LORD shall prosper in his hand."

     The crucifixion of Jesus had been planned as the salvation of
mankind from the beginning. Even the Jews believed that One should die
for all. Look, with me, at the Scripture which covers this. John 11:50
"Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for
the people, and that the whole nation perish not."  Jesus was the
perfect Lamb sacrifice that took away the sin of the whole world.
John 1:29  "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
Hebrews 9:26 "For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." Look, with me,
at one more Scripture that shows animal blood could not do away with
sin.  It had to be the blood of the Son of God. Hebrews 10:4 "For [it
is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away
sins." You see, it is the precious blood of Jesus Christ {the perfect
Lamb which saves us}.  Romans 5:9 "Much more then, being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."  The thing
that kept Jesus on the cross was our faces. When He was on the cross,
you and I were on His mind.

     Isaiah 53:11 "He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and]
shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities."

     The birth of the Christians was a painful thing for Jesus. He
suffered on the cross. We, Christians, are just as if we had never
sinned {justified} in the Lord Jesus Christ. II Timothy 1:10 "But is
now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who
hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel:"  Through the knowledge of the good news of the
gospel, the Christian has hope of eternal life.

     Isaiah 53:12 "Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors."

     It is a wonderful thing to realize just what Jesus did, when He
put us in right standing with God. He is heir to all in the heavens
and in the earth. The great thing is, He has made us the adopted sons
of the Father, He bought us with His blood. He made us jointheirs with
Him. He is our Benefactor. Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Romans 8:15 "For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the
Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." Romans 8:16 " The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God:"  Romans 8:17 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and jointheirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him],
that we may be also glorified together."  Jesus, not only purchased us
for the Father with His blood, but is constantly pleading our case
before the throne. The devil is our accuser, Jesus is our intercessor.
I John 2:1 "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye
sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous:"










                          Isaiah 62 Questions


1.  What is Isaiah saying, when he says, Who hath believed our report?
2.  The "Arm of the LORD" is speaking of what?
3.  Isaiah is telling them of the coming of whom?
4.  What does the "tender plant" tell us about Jesus?
5.  ________ is the Tree of Life.
6.  Jesus was from the tribe of _______.
7.  Quote Romans chapter 15 verse 12.
8.  How do some historians describe the flesh of Jesus?
9.  Who rejected Jesus?
10. How many times did Peter deny Jesus?
11. Jesus entrusted His mother to __________.
12. Who stayed with Him during His worst hour?
13. Who should really have been crucified?
14. Why did the apostles flee?
15. Quote John chapter 5 verse 18.
16. He was wounded for our _______________.
17. By His ___________ we are healed.
18. Quote Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22.
19. What did the "veil" in the temple symbolize?
20. Quote Mark chapter 15 verse 38.
21. Who sinned and needed a Saviour?
22. Quote Romans chapter 5 verse 15.
23. What does verse 7 tell us Jesus had to say?
24. When was Jesus' trial?
25. Quote Matthew chapter 27 verse 25.
26. If we belong to Christ, He dwells __________ __.
27. Where else is Jesus?
28. Who claimed the body of Jesus?
29. Why was he secret about being a disciple of Jesus?
30. When was the crucifixion of Jesus planned?
31. Quote John chapter 11 verse 50.
32. What did John call Jesus in chapter 1 of John?
33. Quote Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4.
34. What justifies the Christian?
35. Quote 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 10.
36. We, Christians, have been adopted, and we are _________ of _____.
37. Quote Romans chapter 8 verse 17.
38. Who is our Advocate with the Father?