Isa 52:14 "...His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the sons of men"
Isa 53:3 ...And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
We have here a prophetic description of Christ as He hung on the cross.
In His first
coming, when He died on the cross, the Lord Jesus was so beaten up, so mauled
that His face was so disfigured that He hardly looked human at all. His flesh
when He was scourged was so lacerated that He was beyond recognition.
They were so violent and brutal against Him. The “Jesus” you see in crufixes are a false representation of what He actually looked like on the cross.
But
He was made like this because He was our substitute. He did not die for
Himself, He died for us. He was deformed, distorted and disfigured because
spiritually speaking, that’s how we look in the eyes of God. They were so violent and brutal against Him. The “Jesus” you see in crufixes are a false representation of what He actually looked like on the cross.
In God’s eyes we are marred and deformed beyond description. We were created in the image of God, but when sin came in, it distorted, deformed and disfigured us. When Israel looked at Him at the cross and despised Him, they were actually looking at themselves.
“You despise Me and would not even dare to look at Me because of what I look like. But I am doing this for you. I am your substitute. Don’t you know that you look like this in the eyes of God?”
