Free Judgement Day by Michael Spears

that I must be
a pretty smart cookie, so if anyone could figure out who Jesus was,
and what religion or rules to follow, I could.
    I knew that
there were prophecies about me, so naturally I thought that the
best place to find out the truth about Jesus would be the prophetic
books, by reading the prophecies about Jesus, so that was where I
started. What I found really amazed me, I read the prophetic books
a lot, but I had never read them with the intention of finding out
who Jesus was, only to get advice or to find out who I was. There
is a very famous passage which all the Christians point to as being
about Jesus, Isaiah 53, ‘The Suffering Servant.’ I noticed
something in that passage which seems to have been overlooked for
the last two thousand years!
     
    Who has
believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been
revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a
root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us
to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was
despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar
with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was
despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment
that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He
was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was
led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its
shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and
judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the
transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave
with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done
no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the LORD’s
will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD
makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and
prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his
hand. After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be
satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a
portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the
strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered
with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
    [Isaiah
53]
     
    This passage
talks about a man being taken away by oppression and judgement, but
then it clearly says “he will see his offspring and prolong his
days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.” Somehow I
didn’t think that being childless and dying at the age of 32
constitutes seeing your offspring and prolonging your days, the man
in this passage is condemned by many, but he does not die by
execution. “By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify
many,” it was by my knowledge that I could save the human race.
What about the line “he had no beauty or majesty about him”? From
what I’ve always understood about Jesus, he was the most beautiful
man who ever lived, he was the embodiment of God, who they tell us
“is love.”
    My next move
was to study the Gospels, I did this by putting all four Gospels up
against each other in columns and then moving each of the stories
from Jesus’ life that are the same events next to each other, so I
could compare the different versions of all the stories properly.
There were a lot of inconsistencies. The birth of Jesus is a great
example. According to Luke, Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem for
the census and stayed in a stable because