Isa 52:13-53:12 NASB Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. (52:14) Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men. (52:15) Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand. (53:1) Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? (53:2) For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. (53:3) He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

• Who is God speaking of in 52:13? (Num 21:4-9, Heb 1:1-4, Rev 5:6-14)
• What does it mean that He will sprinkle many nations?
• Why does noone believe the message? (53:14, 53:2)
• How was Jesus like God\’s people? (52:14, 53:3) How are you like Jesus in these verses?

(4) Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging* we are healed. (6) All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

• According to these verses, what do you think the cross represented? (4)
• What do you think the sword and nails, death and crown represent? (5)
• What do you think his chastening (or punishment/discipline) offer us (5)
• What do you think his scourging brings for us? (5)
  • *ḥabburāh, ֲחֻבָרה

A feminine noun denoting a bruise, a wound or an injury. It refers to some kind of an injury received by Lamech from a young man (Gen_4:23; NASB, striking). The Suffering Servant of Isaiah (Isa_53:5) undergoes mistreatment indicated by this word (NASB, scourging; NIV, wounds; KJV, NKJV, stripes). Certain wounds, blows, or stripes that wound or cut will purge evil from a person (Pro_20:30). It is used figuratively of emotional or spiritual wounds (Psa_38:5 [6]); of those same wounds on a national scale in Judah (Isa_1:6). In a legal case, a wound was to be paid back by a corresponding wound or injury (Exo_21:25).

• The LORD’s final objective of the suffering servant? (1Peter 2:24-25)

(7) He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. (8) By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? (9) His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. (10) But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolongHis days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. (11) As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. (12) Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.

• What does Jesus silence in struggle say to you? What does this teach us about struggle and suffering and our reaction to it? (Psa 39:9) See again Numbers 21 reference for a possible example.
• What does verse 8 mean to you re: …cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people…? (John 11:48-53) How does this apply to our lives even today?
• According to verse 9, what was the contrasting view of the people in judgment of Jesus and Jesus followers (like Joseph of Arimathea)? How can we judge someone as wicked even though God (and even others) see no violence or deceit in them? What can we learn from this?
• Verse 10:
  • How can the Lord be pleased to crush Him and put Him to grief? (Mat 3:17, Mat 17:5)
  • What is the next condition (beginning with If…)? What does this condition mean?
  • What is a sin and guilt offering? Does the sin and guilt offering survive? What is the purpose of the sin offering? (Lev 6:24-27 ) (the word אשׁם ‘âshâm aw-shawm’ is guilt; by implication a fault; also a sin offering: – guiltiness, (offering for) sin, trespass (offering). (Strong\’s)
  • How can a guilt or sin offering “see His offspring” or “prolong His days”?
• Verse 11: Whose soul is in anguish and who is seeing this anguish and being satisfied? By His knowledge (AMP of himself which he possesses and imparts to others)… How are people made righteous? Who is receiving blessing in verse 11?
  • צדק tsâdaq to be (causatively make) right (in a moral or forensic sense): – cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just (-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be, turn to) righteous (-ness).
• Who is receiving the blessing in verse 12 and why?

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ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

APPLICATIONS

Num 21:4-9 AMP And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient (depressed, much discouraged), because [of the trials] of the way. (5) And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and we loathe this light (contemptible, unsubstantial) manna. (6) Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died. (7) And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, that He may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. (8) And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze] and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live. (9) And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze [attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze], he lived.

Heb 1:1-4 NASB God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, (2) in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. (3) And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, (4) having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

Rev 5:1-3 NASB I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. (2) And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?” (3) And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it. (4) Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it; (5) and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.” (6) And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. (7) And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. (8) When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. (9) And they *sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. (10) “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.” (11) Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, (12) saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.” (13) And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.” (14) And the four living creatures kept saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped.

1Pe 2:24-25 NASB and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. (25) For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Psa 39:9 NASB “I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it.

Joh 11:48-53 NASB “If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” (49) But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, (50) nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” (51) Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, (52) and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. (53) So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

Mat 3:17 NASB and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

Mat 17:15 NASB “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

Lev 5:15-19 NASB “If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the LORD’S holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. (16) “He shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven him. (17) “Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment. (18) “He is then to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his error in which he sinned unintentionally and did not know it, and it will be forgiven him. (19) “It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD.”

Lev 6:24-27 NASB Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, (25) “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is slain the sin offering shall be slain before the LORD; it is most holy. (26) ‘The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting. (27) \’Anyone who touches its flesh will become consecrated; and when any of its blood splashes on a garment, in a holy place you shall wash what was splashed on.

Lev 7:1-7 NASB ‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy. (2) ‘In the place where they slay the burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. (3) ‘Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, (4) and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove with the kidneys. (5) ‘The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. (6) ‘Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. (7) ‘The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.