May 23rd

May 23rd -- Isaiah 53 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053&version=NLT)

Please go read this on your own (link of pull out your good ol' paper Bible) because it's a prophecy, and I really don't want to mess up any of what it says...

PROPHECY! SO. COOL.  Sorry, but I really just love prophecies. They're seriously so cool. I mean, God, like, tells us the future to tell others. He lets us know what is going to happen. At the time, that probably made no sense to anyone. We know now, though, that it speaks of Christ and his crucifixion, although it was long before even his birth. This talks about all the events of Christ's dying for our sins: he was plain, so rejected ; had the sins of all laid on him ; did no wrong but was condemned and killed like a criminal ; made it possible for many to be counted as righteous (or, made it possible for many to enter the Kingdom of Heaven) ; exposed himself to death ; was blessed hugely by God. It's really just so neat to see our Jesus being preached about long before he came for us, and it just goes to show how God really has been working to save us since the start - He set it all up LONG before it happened.

That's all, sorry. Not sure what else I can say on a prophecy - it speaks for itself. God bless! Shalom!