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I now encountered the God who is ready to forgive, so much so that He made provision for our forgiveness in Jesus, sending His own Son to die on the cross for us.
He planned for it!
‘He was slain before the foundation of the world.’
From the beginning it was His plan to forgive.
What a good father!
He is the God who says to us, “Come, let us reason together, though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.”
He is a God of forgiveness, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love.
He is the God who still has so much patience with Israel, every time they turned away from Him, He drew them back with cords of loving-kindness and set them on the right path again, treating her like a bride.
The God who is ready to forgive, takes unfaithful humans like me, created by Him and invites us into a relationship with Him, no matter what we have done.
He takes us in and cleans us up and dresses us in a robe of righteousness so that we can become children in His family.
He makes us kings and priests and makes us part of His royal family.
The Suffering Servant, Familiar with Suffering – Vee-du-ah-kho-lee
Isaiah 52.13 – 53, Isaiah 42. 1-9, Isaiah 49.1-6.
Jesus was marred and disfigured, He sprinkled many nations with His blood, He was a tender shoot, a root out of dry ground, having no beauty or majesty, He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, He is familiar with pain.
He is able to identify with our pain, he was held in low esteem, he took our punishment, considered stricken by God and afflicted and oppressed.
He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities for our spirit, he took the punishment that brought us peace for our souls.
Healed us by his wounds for our bodies.
He did no violence, he was assigned a grave with the wicked and the rich.
He brought healing for our spirits, souls and our bodies by paying the price for our sin.
He made his life an offering for sin and poured out his life unto death.
He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors, that He might receive the reward of His suffering.
Jesus sowed his earthly body, that it might bring many sons into salvation.
Jesus came to serve through dying on the cross, laying down His life.
He came intentionally for this purpose, from His birth on earth, and from the foundation of the world.
There was no greater act of service which He could have made to mankind and to His Father, in obedience to His plan of reconciliation.
In the New Messianic Version, Jesus is referred to as Messiah Pre-Incarnate – Jesus, the Messiah, before He came to earth in the flesh.
The scripture simply refers to Him as LORD, and says in verse 6 that, “the LORD Yehovah – Messiah Pre-Incarnate (Jesus) has laid on Him (Jesus – himself!) the iniquity of us all!”
In verse 10 it says, “Yet it pleased the LORD Yehovah – Messiah Pre-Incarnate (Jesus)to bruise him (Jesus) and the pleasure of the LORD Yehovah (Jesus) Messiah Pre-Incarnate shall prosper in his hand.
Here we can see that Jesus PLANNED to come and die and suffer for us Himself, in order to carry out his plan and bring us into relationship with Him.
He was not press-ganged into dying by his Father, but to bring us to Him and He planned it before the foundation of the world! 1 Peter 1.19, John 17.24
He took the lowest place, the meanest, most degrading death.
He suffered the greatest violence.
He experienced suffering when He had no need to, to serve this purpose, so that we might all be raised up into relationship with our Father from whom we have been separated.
Being perfect, He became an expiation for sin and took on sin for us.
As we read the scriptures below, I have merged the New Messianic Version with the Names of God version so that we can clearly see the involvement of Jesus, as Messiah – Pre-Incarnate – before he came to earth in the flesh, in our redemption, the Holy Spirit (Ruach) and God the Father (Elohim).
He is also called Yehovah El (Elohim, The Living Word – (Jesus) The Many Powered) (Messiah Pre-Incarnate – Jesus) which shows the three in one nature of God.
Isaiah 53
Who has believed our message?
To whom has Yehovah’s (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) power been revealed?
2 He grew up in his presence like a young tree,
like a root out of dry ground.
He had no form or majesty that would make us look at him.
He had nothing in his appearance that would make us desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by people.
He was an Ish Makoboth (a man of sorrows), familiar with suffering.
He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces,
and we didn’t consider him to be worth anything.
4 He certainly has taken upon himself our suffering
and carried our sorrows,
but we thought that Elohim (the Living Word – the Many Powered) had wounded him,
beat him, and punished him.
5 He was wounded for our rebellious acts.
He was crushed for our sins.
He was punished so that we could have peace,
and we received healing from his wounds.
6 We have all strayed like sheep.
Each one of us has turned to go his own way,
and Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has laid all our sins on him.
7 He was abused and punished,
but he didn’t open his mouth.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
He was like a sheep that is silent
when its wool is cut off.
He didn’t open his mouth.
8 He was arrested, taken away, and judged.
Who would have thought that he would be removed
from the world?
He was killed because of my people’s rebellion.
9 He was placed in a tomb with the wicked.
He was put there with the rich when he died,
although he had done nothing violent
and had never spoken a lie.
10 Yet, it was Yehovah’s (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will to crush him with suffering.
When Yehovah has made his life a sacrifice for our wrongdoings,
he will see his descendants for many days.
The will of Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will succeed through him.
11 He will see and be satisfied
because of his suffering.
My righteous Ebed (servant) will acquit many people
because of what he has learned through suffering.
He will carry their sins as a burden.
12 So I will give him a share among the mighty,
and he will divide the prize with the strong,
because he poured out his life in death
and he was counted with sinners.
He carried the sins of many.
He intercedes for those who are rebellious.
Isaiah 42. 1-9
Here is my Ebed (servant), whom I support.
Here is my chosen one, with whom I am pleased.
I have put my Ruach (Holy Spirit) on him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not cry out or raise his voice.
He will not make his voice heard in the streets.
3 He will not break off a damaged cattail.
He will not even put out a smoking wick.
He will faithfully bring about justice.
4 He will not be discouraged or crushed
until he has set up justice on the earth.
The coastlands will wait for his teachings.
5 Yehovah El created the heavens and stretched them out.
He shaped the earth and all that comes from it.
He gave life to the people who are on it
and breath to those who walk on it.
This is what Yehovah El (Elohim, The Living Word – The Many Powered) (Messiah Pre-Incarnate, He that created the heavens and stretched them out:
He that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it;
He that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk in it says:
6 I, Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) have called you to do what is right.
I will take hold of your hand.
I will protect you.
I will appoint you as my promise (covenant) to the people,
as my light to the nations.
7 You will give sight to the blind,
bring prisoners out of prisons,
and bring those who live in darkness
out of dungeons.
8 I am Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); that is my name!
I will not give my glory to anyone else
or the praise I deserve to idols.
9 What I said in the past has come true.
I will reveal new things before they happen.
Isaiah 49.1-6.
Listen to me, you islands.
Pay attention, you people far away.
Before I was born, Yahweh (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) chose me.
While I was in my mother’s womb, he recorded my name.
2 He made my tongue like a sharp sword
and hid me in the palm of his hand.
He made me like a sharpened arrow
and hid me in his quiver.
3 He said to me,
“You are my servant Israel.
I will display my glory through you.”
4 But I said,
“I have worked hard for nothing.
I have used my strength, but I didn’t accomplish anything.
Yet, certainly my case is in Yehovah’s (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) hands,
and my reward is with my Elohim.”
5 Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) formed me in the womb to be his servant
in order to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to him.
Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) honors me,
and my Elohim (the Living Word – the Many Powered) has become my strength.)
6 Now, Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) says,
“You are not just my servant who restores the tribes of Jacob
and brings back those in Israel whom I have preserved.
I have also made you a light for the nations
so that you would save people all over the world.”
Thanks you for this insight in the Holy Scripture.
This is so edifying. Thanks!!! It’s a great resource to have and reread
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