The Day Of Time And Timelessness.

The Day Of Time and Timelessness.

Isaiah 53:1-12NLT

Our Daily Bread- The person we know as Saint Nicholas (Saint Nick) was born around AD 270 to a wealthy Grecian family. Tragically, his parents died when he was a boy, and he lived with his uncle who loved him and taught him to follow God.

When Nicholas was a young man, legend says that he heard of three sisters, who didn’t have a dowry for marriage, and would soon be destitute.

Wanting to follow Jesus‘s teaching about giving to those in need, he took his inheritance and gave each sister a bag of gold coins.

-Over the years, Nicolas gave the rest of his money away, feeding the poor and caring for others.

In the following centuries, Nicholas was honored for his lavish generosity, and he inspired the character as we know as Santa Claus.

In, Revelation, John writes several times over that God was and God is, and God is to come. -I think that makes God always relevant.

With that said, listen to ‘The Day Of Time and Timelessness.’

Isaiah 53:1-12 “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? 2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. 3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 8 Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. 9 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. 10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. 11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. 12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.”

...For He will bare all their sins. He bore the sins of us all!

In the Hebrew, For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant.

It is written in the future tense.

-What kind of plans do you have for the future?

Again verse 3, he is despised and rejected, a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief.

What tense? -The present tense. Have you experienced rejection? -Maybe life has tried to steal your id.

Verse 3, Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

What’s the tense? It is in the past tense.

How can that be? It was a prophecy, written before the events took place.

How could it be written in the past tense as if it already happened, before it happened?

And how can the same event be written in all three tenses, the past, the present, and the future?

Isaiah 53, Is the event of God‘s redemption…

Hear this, For the love of God is not bound by time… It is time that is bound by the love of God. P.H

Matthew 1:23 ““Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’””

The angel declares in verse 21, He will save the world from their sins.

What happened 2000 years ago on an execution steak in the land of Judea, is a mystery…