We are not “Christians”, we are Messianic Jews. I was born to Jewish parents with a long line of Jewish roots. We practice Jewish holidays, recite Jewish prayers and keep Jewish traditions. We are here, we are valid and we aren’t going anywhere.
He grew up before HIM like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didnt have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didnt value Him.
Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and Him carried our pains; but we in return regarded Him stricken, struck down by Hashem, and afflicted.
But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities, punishment for our peace was on Him
BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED
We all went astray like sheep; we have all turned to our own way; and Hashem has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
He was OPPRESSED and AFFLICTED,
Yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
And a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth.
He was taken away because of oppression and judgement: and who considered His fate?
For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
They made His grave with the wicked and with the rich man at His death, although He had done NO VIOLENCE and DID NOT SPEAK DECEITFULLY.
Isaiah 53:2-9
