>God will never leave me nor forsake meI press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRXDYvpA020
>>84161439I don't see the prophecies of the OT being fulfilled by Jesus, why do you say he's the messiah?
>>84161493For the most blatant ones >Isaiah 42>Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.>He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.>A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.>He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.>Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:>I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;I'll post the entirety of Is 53 in the next one because it's short.
>>84161493>Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?>For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.>He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.>Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.>But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.>All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.>He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.>He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.>And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.>Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.>He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
>>84161519>Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.(2/2)There's stuff as far back as genesis 3 (if you ignore the reference to the trinity in Genesis 1:26), but it's not as blatant.
>>84161519This is obviously rereferring to the crucifixion of Christ and the Gospel, there's no two ways about it.
>>84161528Why doesn't it mention a cross?
>>84161571Erm... unimportant detail.I'm surprised something translated from Aramaic, to Ancient Greek, to Latin, to German, then to Middle English (Ye knave!) is decipherable enough to make sense.>and the smoking flax shall he not quenchHmm, much Jedi training needs he.
>>84161604How come in Isaiah the prophet calls Jacob, Israel, the servant?
>>84161619Who knows what that originally meant 1700 years ago?Everyone who knew has been a skeleton for at least 1000 years. Can we all stop trying to decipher "magic words" from a primitive tribe that believed in doomsday?
>>84161650Isaiah 44 for example states this >"But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
that feeling when im surrounded by death-cultists who call themselves "men of god"
>>84161571Why would it have to mention a cross? We use it as a symbol now, but really it could have been any method, that's not the spiritually important part. The closest thing that comes to referencing this is the brazen "serpent on a pole" statue in the wilderness that is used as a metaphor for the Christ's sacrifice (the connection is made directly in the Gospels)From John Chapter 3 >And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:>That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
>>84161619Israel, Jacob are the same guy, it's common in the bible to call the people of a country by the name of its founder, like if Americans were called Columbus or Washington offhandedly. People who believe in / serve God are called the servants of God. In the Old Covenant the people of the nation of Israel were meant to be God's servants (though they often forsook God and practiced other religions, when this would happen, God would punish them, like what's happening to the west now.).
>>84161604AI anon, the KJV is based on the TR Greek and Masoretic texts for the hebrew, so it's just Hebrew= > English andGreek= > EnglishOnly the catholic versions come from latin, as far as I know. Some of the latter parts of the OT were written in Aramaic, it's just what became the commonly used language after the Babylonian captivity iirc.
>>84161668Israel (the country) was a chosen nation in the Old Testament.
>>84161704If you're culturing death, you should probably clean your bathroom
I'm constantly stressed out lately because all I can think about it is being doomed to damnation for eternity. I keep getting different takes in my feed with things like repentance should be easy to completely turn your life around once you accept Christ. Yet I still struggle. I don't know how to hear the Lord's voice. I know I'm weak and extremely flawed and it constantly has my body in fight or flight mode and I just want to die.
