Today is Good Friday, the day of the year Jesus of Nazareth died for our sins that we may be healed. Isaiah 53 is such an amazing and stunning prophecy about it as follows:
His Suffering
3He was despised and rejected by others, a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.
4Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases,
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
8By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future?
His Future
Indeed, and what was to be his future? On the third day after his crucifixion, blessed Sunday, God raised him from the dead as the first fruits of the yet future resurrection. Forty days later he ascended to heaven. Psalm 110.1 then says, “The LORD [God] says to my lord [Jesus], ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”
When that time arrives in the still distant future, a coronation ceremony for him will occur in heaven. Daniel predicts it in Daniel 7.13-14, “And he came to the Ancient of Days [God] and was presented before him. To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.”
Hallelujah! Good Friday made possible this blessed future for him and us.
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