To The Testimony! (Isaiah 8:20) (KJV)

God with us]” (Isaiah 7:14). Fulfillment: Luke 1:26-38; Matthew 1:20-23 Office as Prophet: “The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken” (Deuteronomy 18:15); “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him” (Deuteronomy 18:18-19). Fulfillment: John 6:14; 7:40; Acts 3:20-23 The Branch: “And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots” (Isaiah 11:1-5). “I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth” (Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15); “Behold the Man whose name is The BRANCH … He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon His throne” (Zechariah 6:12-13; 3:8). Fulfillment: Acts 13:22-23; Romans 15:12 Office as High Priest: “The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek” (Psalm 110:4); “Behold the Man whose name is The BRANCH; and He shall … be a priest upon His throne” (Zechariah 6:12-13). Fulfillment: Hebrews 2:17; 3:1; 4:14-15; 5:5-6; 6:20; 7; 8:1, 34; 9:11-14, 24-26 Office of King, and will present Himself entering Jerusalem riding on a donkey colt: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). (Numbers 24:17; Genesis 49:10.) Fulfillment: Matthew 21:1-9; Mark 11:1-10; Luke 19:28-38; Revelation 17:14; Hebrews 1:8 Servant: “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” (Isaiah 42:1). (Isaiah 49:6; 52:13-15; 53:10-11.) Fulfillment: Matthew 12:17-21; Philippians 2:5-9 Anointed of the Holy Spirit: “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me; because the LORD hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (Isaiah 61:1). (Isaiah 11:2; 42:1.) Fulfillment: Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 4:18; Acts 10:38 There will be a forerunner for Him: “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God” (Isaiah 40:3). (Malachi 3:1.) Fulfillment: Matthew 3:1-3; 11:10; 17:10-13; Mark 1:2-11; Luke 1:5-17, 76-80; John 1:19-36 Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: “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” (Isaiah 53:8); “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself” (Daniel 9:24-27). Fulfillment: Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 19; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 1:4; Colossians 1:12-14; 1 John 2:2; 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 Messiah, the sinless sacrifice for our iniquity: “As many were astonished at thee; His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men: So shall He sprinkle many nations” (Isaiah 52:14-15). “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” (Isaiah 53:3-6). “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 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. 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” (Isaiah 53:10-12). Fulfillment: Hebrews 7:27; 9; 10:8-20; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 5:2 The sinless Messiah to be the world’s light and salvation: “It is a light thing that Thou shouldest be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6, 8). (Isaiah 11:10.) Fulfillment: Acts 4:12; 13:47; Romans 1:16; 10:9-10; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 5:9; 7:9-10; John 8:12; 12:46 Despised of the people, beaten, His face spit upon, scourged, beard plucked out, mocked and ridiculed: “I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not My face from shame and spitting” (Isaiah 50:6); “But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see Me laugh Me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that He would deliver Him: let Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted in Him” (Psalm 22:6-8, 12-13). (Micah 5:1; Isaiah 49:7; 53:3.) Fulfillment: Matthew 26:67; 27:26-44 His hands and feet would be pierced: “For dogs have compassed Me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me: they pierced My hands and My feet” (Psalm 22:16); “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10-14). Fulfillment: Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:33; 24:39; Revelation 1:7 Sinless Messiah would represent the last Passover Lamb: “He keepeth all His bones: not one of them is broken” (Psalm 34:20). (Exodus 12; Numbers 9:12.) “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year” (Exodus 12:5). “Taken outside the camp” (Leviticus 16:27; 9:11). Fulfillment: 1 Corinthians 5:7; John 1:29, 36; 19:36; Hebrews 13:10-13 Messiah to be resurrected: “For Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption” (Psalm 16:10). “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth” (Job 19:25). (Isaiah 53:8-12.) Fulfillment: Matthew 12:38-40; 28:5-7; Mark 16:6; Luke 24:5-7; Acts 1:1-11; 2:22-24, 27, 31, 36; 4:10-12; 13:35-37; Romans 8:34; 2 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Peter 1:3 God’s New Covenant: “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34). “Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and His Holy One, to Him whom man despiseth, to Him whom the nation abhorreth, to a Servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and He shall choose Thee. Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped Thee: and I will preserve Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages” (Isaiah 49:7-8). “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; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house” (Isaiah 42:6-7). Fulfillment: Hebrews 8; 9; 10:12-22; 12:24; Matthew 26:28; Luke 22:20; Romans 11:27 Messiah, the precious cornerstone, and stone of stumbling: “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” (Isaiah 28:16). “And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem” (Isaiah 8:14). “The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner” (Psalm 118:22). “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet … . and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:34-35). Fulfillment: Matthew 21:42, 44; Luke 20:17-18; Romans 9:33, 1 Peter 2:6-8 Messiah coming in the clouds of heaven, and an everlasting dominion, great glory and kingdom given Him: “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, One like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed” (Daniel 7:13-14). (Psalm 72:7-8, 11). Fulfillment: Matthew 24:30; 26:64; Mark 13:26; 14:62; 2 Peter 1:11; Revelation 1:7; 5:12-13 Messiah the Judge: “He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears: But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins” (Isaiah 11:3-5). Fulfillment: Romans 2:16; Acts 10:42; 17:31; John 5:22, 30; 12:48; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8; Revelation 11:18 “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read” (Isaiah 34:16). “And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me” (Luke 24:44). (Luke 16:31.) —Rebecca Didocha