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Now in this article we will continue to deal with common misconceptions and misinterpretations of Isaiah 53 which erroneously have been applied to Jesus which rightfully apply to the nation. We will examine if Jesus died once or many times. This may sound preposterous but just wait. Also we will examine if Jesus’ blood or the knowledge of God that went to the Gentile world because of his death brought vindication to the world. This is very important information for the Biblical believing Christian. So without further ado...
As has been done to many verses before as exposed in the previous articles in this series, the plural references to the Servant of Yahweh is once again deliberately altered by Christian translators into the singular. The Hebrew word (b’mosov) is plural and correctly translated means “deaths.” The KJV, NIV and other Christian translations of Isaiah again change the tense of the word....in order for it to read “death;” again purposefully altering the text in order to conceal the identity of the Servant as the nation of Israel as a "plurality."
Answer for yourself: Did Jesus die once or twice, or three times or more than that? Did Jesus die a "death" or did he die "deaths"?
Let's investigate the matter in detail.
9 And he gave his grace to the wicked and to the wealthy with his kinds of deaths, because he committed no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Answer for yourself: How many times did Jesus die and other than crucifixion is there recorded for us a different type of death that he endured?
Answer for yourself: Presuming you have read the prior 4 articles in this series, are you better equipped now to properly understand that the “deaths” spoken of in the plural in this verse describes the deaths of the Jewish people at the hands of the Gentile nations who misunderstood them or rejected them and their ways of godliness?
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Answer for yourself: Did you catch the difference for yourself?
As has been done to many verses before as I have carefully documented for you in the previous articles in this series, the understanding of the plural references to the Servant of Yahweh is once again deliberately altered by Christian translators into the singular. In this instance the plural “deaths” in the original become the singular “death” in the Christian Bible. Let me state again the fact that the Hebrew word (b’mosov) is plural and correctly translated means “deaths.” The KJV, NIV and others change it to read “death” in order to conceal the identity of the Servant as the nation of Israel.
12 And I will leave over in your midst a humble and poor people, and they shall take shelter in the name of the Lord. 13 The remnant of Israel shall neither commit injustice nor speak lies; neither shall deceitful speech be found in their mouth [notice the plural once more], for they shall gaze and lie down, with no one to cause them to shudder. 14 Sing O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Rejoice and jubilate wholeheartedly, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The Lord has removed your afflictions; He has cast out your enemy. The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst - you shall no longer fear evil. 16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, “Have no fear! O Zion, Let your hands not be slack. 17 The LORD thy God is in your midst -a Mighty One Who will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will be silent in His love.
19 He will jubilate over you with song.” Behold, I wreak destruction upon all those who have afflicted you at that time. And I will save the one who limps, and I will gather the stray one, and I will make them a praise and a name throughout all the land where they suffered shame. 20 At that time I will bring them, and at (that) time I will gather you, for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your daughters before your eyes, said the Lord.
Answer for yourself: Are you beginning to see that what you have been mistakenly taught referred to Jesus in Isaiah 53 really refers to the whole of the nation and not one person?
As you can see for yourself here the prophet Zephaniah describes vividly the righteous remnant of Israel [corporate Israel and not a single person] in precisely the same fashion as the prophet Isaiah did in the 53rd chapter: “The remnant of Israel [afflicted Israel by the Gentile nations] shall neither speak lies; neither shall deceitful speech be found in their mouth.”
10 And the Lord wished to crush him [corporate Israel..remember?] He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution, he shall see seed, he shall prolong his days, and God’s purposes shall prosper in his hand.
Answer for yourself: Did you notice that the promise of "seed" or children is conditional to restitution and obedience?
Now understand this is the "text" as taken from the Jewish Bible.
Answer for yourself: Do you know that the Christian translations of Isa. 53:10 are completely different? Why is that? Let us examine it from the KJV version of Isaiah 53:10 as taken from my personal Christian Bible.
Isa 53:10-11 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (KJV)
Answer for yourself: Where does the idea of "atonement" and "making a soul an offering for sin" come from when it is not in the Jewish Bible and the Jewish Scriptures?
Answer for yourself: Did someone make this up [soul an offering for sin] when they translated the manuscripts from the Hebrew or added it later in the ?
Answer for yourself: Is someone attributing to Isaiah the prophet things he did not say to give Prophetic authority to religious doctrines [like a false atonement connected to Jesus] that were never written by him in the first place? They sure are.
Answer for yourself: Now, has God previously told "corporate Israel" the same thing; namely, that if they were obedient to Him then they would prosper and see their "seed?" He sure has!
8 You will repent and obey God, keeping all His commandments, as I prescribe them to you today. 9 God will then grant you a good surplus in all the work of your hands, in the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land. God will once again rejoice in you for good, just as He rejoiced in your fathers. 10 All this will happen when you obey [conditional] God your Lord, keeping all His commandments and decrees, as they are written in this book of the Torah, and when you return to God your Lord with all your heart and soul.
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses! Before you I have placed life and death, the blessing and the curse. You must choose life, so that you and your seed will survive. 20 If you choose to love the Lord your God, to obey Him, and to attach yourself to Him. This is the sole means of survival and long life when you dwell in the land that God swore to you' fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, [promising] that He would give it to them.
So we find nothing new here to force upon the interpretation of Isaiah 53:10 a meaning foreign to the text. The message is simple. If the children of God obey Him and His commandments, they will proper both physically (offspring--see their seed) and spiritually. “If his soul (life) makes restitution (repent) then he shall prolong his days in the land and receive blessing. If not, then further exile. What we must never fail to remember is that God often used Gentile nations to chastise His people and bring them to repentance. Such is the message hidden within Isaiah 53.
11 From the toil of his soul he would see, he would be satisfied; with his knowledge My servant would vindicate the just for many, and their iniquities he would bear.
Maybe you need to read that again.....now understanding that the "subject" of Isaiah 53 is the corporate nation of Israel and not just "one person," Isaiah is specifically saying that through the knowledge of the Jewish nation (their Torah and their Bible) that they VINDICATE and BEAR THE INIQUITIES of many. WOW!
Answer for yourself: What does it mean “With his "knowledge"?
In Christian theology it was not Jesus' knowledge that vindicated the world. It was, according to Christian theology it was his blood. Isaiah is not, however, speaking of a crucified messiah in his 53rd chapter. The prophet is referring to the Almighty's Servant Israel and not just one person, who, by their corporate knowledge of God and His precious Torah are witnesses to the world that there are no other gods (Isaiah 43:10-11) and through this Torah (Hebrew for instruction) they, by both witnessing it and sharing it with others (me and you) help redeem the world (conditional that I accept and believe it and live it)!
5 Now if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall be My special treasure among all the nations, because all the world is Mine. 6 You will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to Me. These are the words that you must relate to the Israelites.
Immediately before the Ten Commandments were given at Sinai, the nation of Israel was told that they are to be a “Kingdom of priests” (Ex. 19:5), as in Isaiah 61:6. Now it was up to them to live up to their "calling."
6. And you shall be called “The Priests of the Lord, Servants of our God”: shall be said of you; the possessions of the nations you shall eat, and with their glory you shall succeed (them). 7 Instead of your shame, which was two fold, and your disgrace, which they [the Gentile nations for rejecting them] shall inherit two fold; they shall have everlasting joy. 8 For I am the Lord, Who loves justice, hates robbery in a burnt offering; and I gave their wage in truth, and an everlasting covenant I will make for them. 9 And their seed shall be known among the gentiles, and their offspring among the nations; all who see them shall recognize them that they are seed that the Lord blessed.
6 I am the Lord; I called you with righteousness and I will strengthen your hand; and I formed you, and I make you for a people's covenant, for a light to the nations.
6 And He said, "Is it too light a thing for you to be My servant? To establish the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the besieged of Israel, but I will make you a light of nations, so that My salvation shall be until the end of the earth."
3 And nations shall go by your light and kings by the brilliance of your shine.
23 For a commandment is a candle, and the Torah is light...
13 'And it shall come to pass that as you were a curse among the Gentiles, O House of Judah and House of Israel, so will I save you - and you shall be a blessing. Fear not; may your hands be strengthened!
23 So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the gentiles shall take hold of the skirt [prayer shawl] of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."
Answer for yourself: How can we be, as Christians and followers of Jesus, enlightened by Israel's light, their Torah, their Bible, and by Israel as God's Priesthood, when our translations of their writings are not faithful to what the Hebrew originally said?
Answer for yourself: How can we be ministered to by God's "Royal Priesthood" when our translations of their Holy Book are corrupted on purpose in order to infect us with solar and sun-worship dressed up like Judaism and "divine prophecies" by Rome and other?
Answer for yourself: How can we "go by their light" when we don't have it and when we even try to read our Bibles we don't know that were are reading purposefully corrupted passages that leads us far from the truth that Isaiah originally communicated to others that he received by revelation of HaShem?
'And God said to Aaron, "You and your sons, and your father's house with you, you must bear the Iniquity against the sanctuary, and you and your sons must bear the iniquity against your priesthood.
Answer for yourself: What is our remedy? Simply; we must repent of our false beliefs when shown we are wrong!
2 And it shall be at the end of days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. 3 And many nations shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths, " for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem..." 50 house of Jacob, come let us go in the light of the Lord."
12. Therefore, I will allot him [the corporate nation of Israel] a portion in public, and with the strong he shall share plunder, because he poured out his soul (life..in bringing knowledge of God to non-Jews) to death, and with transgressors he was counted; and he bore the sin of many (received the sinful treatment of many non-Jews and Christians through the centuries), and interceded for the transgressors (daily prayers-prayer book..Amidah).
Maybe you need to read that again...real slowly!
"And the tree on the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its produce, and they shall remain securely upon their ground. Then shall they know that I am God, when I break the bars of their yoke and save them from the hands of those who enslave them (from Gentiles)... 29 And I shall establish for them a plantation of renown, and they shall no more be gathered in by famine in the land, and they shall no more bear the shame of the nations. 30 Then they shall know that I, God their Lord, am with them, and they are My people, the family of Israel - the words of my Lord, God.
We continue.