{"id":962,"date":"2004-11-17T07:16:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T07:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:05:25","slug":"one-man-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2004\/11\/one-man-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"One Man for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> The ever-inventive Jim Jordan points out this cool sequence at the center of the prophecy of Isaiah: <\/p>\n<p> 1) The Assyrians threaten Jerusalem, but the Lord delivers the city because of the intercession of King Hezekiah. <\/p>\n<p> 2) Then Hezekiah gets sick, beginning to die as king for the people.  But he pleads with the Lord and is delivered. <\/p>\n<p> 3) Immediately, Isaiah begins the servant songs, where the suffering servant dies on behalf of the people. <\/p>\n<p> In short: By the terms of the Davidic covenant, the king is the representative of the nation, Israel in person.  The king suffers and dies for the people.  But Isaiah promises a new phase, a new covenant, in which there will be a servant who suffers on behalf of the king.  This buttresses the insight of NT Wright and others concerning the \u201cIsrael Christology\u201d of the New Testament.   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-inventive Jim Jordan points out this cool sequence at the center of the prophecy of Isaiah: 1) The Assyrians threaten Jerusalem, but the Lord delivers the city because of the intercession of King Hezekiah. 2) Then Hezekiah gets sick, beginning to die as king for the people. 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