“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Almighty Yahveh been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.” Isa 53:1-3
Who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of Almighty Yahveh been revealed? This is a question that obviously was running around in Isaiah’s mind as he asked of the people.
As I ponder on this scripture, I realize the hardships the prophets must have suffered at the hands of the religious crowd. I am sure that many times they must have felt like they were not being heard by the populous. It is obvious that in most cases they were not.
The prophets of old were not like the preachers of today on television and in the mega churches. Many of these have mega salaries and mega homes and some have two or three million or multi-million dollar properties called mansions. False prophets who tickled the king’s ears and the ears of the populous for their favors and riches have always been present. Continue reading →