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The Walk to Emmaus part 2This continues the study of the walk on the road to Emmaus where Jesus reveals and opens up scriptures to a couple of men troubled by the events concerning the death of Jesus on the cross. In Luke 24:27, Jesus spoke to them from the words of Moses and all the prophets He pointed out to these men about all the scriptures that was about Him. I am looking up the scriptures that He may have used that speak of the coming of Jesus and other scriptures that speak of Him. I don't know of course which scriptures Jesus used but I'm sharing those that do speak of Jesus.
Isaiah is one of the prophets that speak of Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew). This scripture concerns the 2nd coming of Christ.
In Revelation the next passage I have below we see recorded the future fulfillment of Isaiah 25:8. the New Jerusalem ascends from Heaven. All death, pain and sorrow will flee. No one will rebuke His people or harm them ever again for they at that point will have been resurrected with new bodies that can never die. This is a promise to all who receive Jesus Christ, not just Israel.
Whosoever comes to Him will partake of the water of life. Being born again by God's spirit, becoming a new creature in Christ, to have sins forgiven and cleansed and to be partaker of an eternity with the Lord, living forever in a body that can never die. We can't get anything anywhere any better than this, yet so many want to hold onto this life only and neglect their eternal souls. Next we will see a verse in Isaiah 52:14 that gives us a vision of what Jesus went through just before and during His suffering on the cross. This was His first coming. He was beaten and whipped so much that his whole face was marred horribly.
In chapter 53, the whole chapter describes none other than Jesus. No other person born of woman could have fulfilled this chapter other than Jesus.
Jesus came as an ordinary man, not handsome, popular or polished. He was from a poor everyday type of family prepared of the Lord ahead of time.
He was so hated that His own nation rejected Him. Only a few believed compared to the population of that day. Yet it had to be done in order to usher in the way of salvation. God allowed this for our sakes. That is why Jesus was considered to be smitten of God. Even His own disciples fled when Jesus was arrested. Peter denied Him out of the fear of men. They changed later after the day of Pentecost but in order for scripture to be fulfilled they hid their faces and fled. This is foretold in Zechariah.
Both Matthew and Mark record this: At the arrest of Jesus they all got scared and ran away.
He was wounded for our transgressions. This is the suffering and passion of Christ. Isaiah 53 describes this in detail many years before Jesus was even born as a babe and walked among men.
All of us were once lost, gone astray and far from the presence of God. Jesus sufferred nails, bruises, beatings and more for our salvation, for our healing, and for our eternal souls to be saved. He actually paid for our sins. Sort of like a person that would love a friend so much that he would serve his jail sentence for him so his friend would go free, only Jesus actually physically died when He didn't sin and didn't deserve to die. The cost of sin is death both physically and the soul for eternity. Jesus reverses all that for those the come to Him repenting of sin and receiving Him into their lives. We may still suffer death of our temporary bodies but that body will be resurrected. Jesus submitted Himself willingly. He could have backed out at any times and allowed the angels of God to rescue Him.
The just suffered for the unjust. The rich referred to here is a rich man who was a believer. This is recorded in Matthew.
A man that gave Jesus his own new tomb where no one yet was buried, was a follower of Jesus who probably wasn't aware that he was fulfilling scripture in Isaiah 53:9.
He was numbered with the transgressors refers to Jesus dying with thieves who were guilty at the time. Jesus was not guilty of any crime. We know from reading other scriptures that God did not enjoy seeing His Son suffer but what satisfied God was the way was made for us to be saved, inherit eternal life and escape the curse that our sins cause. Without Christ we would be eternally lost and separated from God in a place called Hell. Hell is a place that will confine all those that die in their sins so that sin cannot continue. The devil and his followers will be there too. Hard to think about but God made a way for all of us to escape this fate. Here is the story of the two thieves. One became a believer and went into Paradise with Jesus, the other was lost. Which one will represent how we believe?
There is no soul sleep. The believing man went instantly into Paradise with Jesus at death. That is how quick we can be saved from sin also. We don't have to go out and do a bunch of good deeds to earn it. Jesus paid it all.
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