As the prophet Isaiah’s warnings echoed through the homes and courtyards of Judah, few were listening. What God was saying through His prophet was not what the people wanted to hear. But deep within the warnings and indictments was an astonishing statement: God would one day come to earth.
Eight
hundred years later, Jesus announced that He was God in the flesh who had come
to pay for the sins of the world. He was the fulfillment of Isaiah’s
prophecies. Again, few were listening.
Yet the life
of Jesus Christ fits Isaiah’s profile of the "God who would come to earth." The Anointed One would be:
§ A descendant of
Jesse (Isaiah 11:1);
§ Miraculously born
of a virgin (7:14);
§ A miracle-worker
(35:5);
§ Wounded and
bruised for us (53:5);
§ Our sin bearer
(53:12);
§ Rejected by His
people (53:3);
§ Buried in a rich
man’s tomb (53:9);
The
overwhelming evidence points to Jesus as "God among us." He came to bring
us into a complete and satisfying relationship with God. Isaiah explains how
Jesus would do this:
"We
all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and
the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us al" (Isaiah 53:6).
Our sins
separate us from a holy and righteous God. Christ’s death paid for our sins –
past, present, and future.
He now invites us into a relationship that will last beyond time.
Playwright Janet Irene Thomas
Founder/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre
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