Isaiah 53:1 “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”
Summarily, Isaiah Chapter Fifty-Three is a graphic prophecy of our Victorious, Suffering, Savior. Isaiah is telling us of future things as if he was watching them unfold right before his eyes; he was seeing the future exactly as it would happen. He had just given us a Concise Gospel “report”; declaring, “Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.” (Isaiah 52:13-15). He emphasizes that “his” [our Lord’s] “visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men”. We know that people’s bodies have been grotesquely mutilated, burned, torn apart by animals, etc.; but, “his visage was so marred mor than any man”. He was severely beaten with a scourge, a crown of thorns placed upon His head, His beard was pulled out, and He was nailed to the Cross. Such treatment left Him in a horrific and in an indescribably miserable condition. But, there came a moment on the cross in which His sufferings infinitely exceeded that of any human being. He was “made … to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (II Corinthians 5:21). So awful was the Scene Of His Suffering, that “from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour” (Matthew 27:45 & Mark 15:33); God the Father had turned out all light on this Miserable Scene. Our Beloved Lord’s Suffering, As He Endured The Penalty For Our Sin, was so great that He Cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34). But, when He had sufficiently suffered, He Victoriously Heralded “It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost” (John 19:30). And, “after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever” He Victoriously “sat down on the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12)! And now, we jubilantly proclaim His Glorious Name and worshipfully rejoice for He “hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world” (II Timothy 1:9)!