726 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 61 - The Victorious Sacrifice of Christ Part 2
https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 61 THE VICTORIOUS SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - PART 2 ISAIAH 51 - 53 All right, we pretty much finished Isaiah 51 and now we’re going to just jump into chapter 52 verse 1. Now I trust you all know your Bible well enough that Isaiah 53 is that great explanation of salvation for the Old Testament believers. All right, Isaiah 52 verse 1, here is now our third double "Awake." "Awake, awake; (Israel wake up!) put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come unto thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." Oh, the Kingdom of course is in reference here, when Christ will rule and reign and Jerusalem will be the capital of it all. Now here the Lord is speaking through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem will not have any Gentiles trodden their streets. Let’s begin with verse 24. "…and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of (whom?) the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." So Jerusalem, you want to remember from time immemorial, has been trodden underfoot by the Gentile armies, or as the Bible refers to them as the uncircumcised. So Jerusalem has been under constant Gentile dominion. Pharaoh! Pharaoh was Assyrian. (now, that evidently is a reference to Israel’s enemies) (now here is another description of the God of Israel) Now of all the times I’ve heard that verse referenced I’ve never heard it referred to as Christ. "…that brings tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; (that can’t be anybody but Christ) that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth." Verse 8. Now look at verse 9. Once Christ returns and establishes the Kingdom and He’s got His throne room there in Jerusalem, look at the euphoria of the Nation. joy, sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD hath comforted his people, He (the Lord) hath redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." Why? Because He’s going to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords! He’s going to rule the earth from Jerusalem. "Depart ye, depart ye, go out from thence, touch no unclean things; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. This time they will go in and out of Jerusalem with complete joy and safety and blessing. All right now the Scripture jumps all the way up to a graphic description of the suffering Messiah, the Servant. "Behold, my servant…" "Behold my servant Moses." Behold my servant so and so. So speaking of the Messiah: Crucifixion hadn’t been invented. Nobody has died a death of crucifixion. The Romans, if I understand right, created crucifixion. So, there was no way that these Old Testament patriarchs and believers could look forward to a cross. Nobody suspected that. Now you want to remember when we taught these little epistles, what is Peter preparing the Jewish believers for? The Tribulation. I "The appearing of Jesus Christ." I Peter 1:8-9 Now verse 10, he goes back to the Old Testament. I Peter 1:10a "Of which salvation (that these Jews now had in response to believing that Jesus was the Christ for their salvation remember) the prophets (the Old Testament writers) inquired and searched diligently,…" I Peter 1:10b Now verse 11. I Peter 1:11 Now you see we’ve been seeing that exemplified throughout the book of Isaiah. Chastisement and then blessing. The most tremendous blessing Israel has ever known. But could the Old Testament prophets put it together? Luke 18. All right, verse 31, He’s still with all twelve up in northern Israel. Luke 18:31 Luke 18:32-33 Luke 18:34a Because God hid it from them, supernaturally. Luke 18:34b Unbelievable? Peter on the other hand says, what? All right now come with me to John chapter 20. My, God chose that man to reveal all these things so that we don’t have any doubt. Grave robbers. They’ve stolen Him. John 20:4a Peter and John, and old John outran Peter. John 20:4-5a "So they ran both together: and the other disciple (John) outran Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Now verse 6, here comes Simon Peter and he went into the sepulcher. John 20:6-7 "Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie, 7. Peter just barges right in and looks at all the evidence, the linen clothes and the napkin. Now then verse 8: John 20:8 John 20:9 Now remember all these verses we just read. Peter writes that these Old Testament prophets had no kind of clue as to how all this was going to happen. They understood there had to be a suffering Savior. They understood there would be a ruling Monarch. All right, so now let’s just start Isaiah 53 verse 1: Isaiah 53:1a Israel was no different. Isaiah 53:1 Isaiah 53:2 "For he (now remember we’re talking constantly about the Messiah in this chapter. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible
