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Long-form on Isaiah 53. The Suffering Servant, wounded for our transgressions, fulfilled in the New Testament. The first Awakeden deep-dive slated for release.
The study behind this
These lines belong to Isaiah's fourth Servant Song, written some seven hundred years before the cross. They describe a man wounded for the sins of others, whose suffering becomes the means of their healing.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities... and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree... by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:24
The reading
You carry a wound nothing has been able to close, a guilt that keeps reopening, no matter how hard you try to make it right.
Seven hundred years before the cross, Isaiah wrote that the healing you can't reach would come through someone else's wounds.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities... and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
Stripes, the welts of a flogging, the wounding Isaiah foresaw centuries before it fell on Jesus' back. And the apostle Peter took up Isaiah's words and laid them on Christ at the cross:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree... by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:24
And watch what Peter does with it. Isaiah wrote "we are healed." Peter writes "ye were healed", and points the promise straight at the one who's listening: at you.
You were never meant to make it right yourself. The healing isn't something you produce, it was finished at the cross, in His own wounds, for you. The wound that keeps reopening, He has already closed. Come to Him, and receive it.
Every quotation is the King James Version, verified word for word against the text.