<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352340" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cross Foretold</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seven hundred years before Jesus Christ ever walked on the earth, <br>Isaiah prophesied that He would be born through a virgin birth, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was much misunderstanding in the land by those who heard it, <br>As they simply didn’t understand it would be through The Holy Spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He would be born in a little town near Jerusalem called Bethlehem, <br>His name will be Jesus, for He will save His people from their sin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isaiah went on to explain the cross in Christ’s life as he appealed, <br>Who has believed and to whom has the arm of The Lord been revealed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He, having no beauty or majesty, and having no appearance of a king, <br>Was not desired, but despised, rejected and familiar with suffering. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although there was nothing in His appearance for them to desire Him, <br>God’s desire for them was to make His Son one-day a guilt offering. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Isaiah compared us to sheep going astray, each of us his own way, <br>Jesus would be afflicted and by oppression and Judgment taken away, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taken away on a Roman cross to be pierced and afflicted with our sin, <br>And His appearance was so disfigured, that many were appalled at Him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was the nation of Israel, to whom this message was first revealed, <br>He was despised and rejected, but it’s by His wounds they are healed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isaiah assures his people that Jesus will be back to save their land, <br>It’s then they will see what they were not told and truly understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Copyright © 05/2002)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bob+Gotti">Bob Gotti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352340" data-title="The Cross Foretold de Bob Gotti" data-description="Seven hundred years before Jesus Christ ever walked on the earth, Isaiah prophesied that He would be born through a virgin birth, There was much misunderstanding in the land by those who heard it, As they simply didn’t understand it would be..."></div> </div> </div>

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