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Micah 5:1
I. They shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
A. Micah is probably best known for his prophesy of the birthplace
of Jesus for this comes into prominent play in the New
Testament when the wise men came to Herod to seek the place of
the birth of the king of the Jews.
B. This prophesy of the Judge of Israel being smitten is only one
of the many prophecies that were made concerning the events of
the crucifixion and death of the Messiah.
C. Paul wrote to the Corinthian church:
1CO 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I
preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand;
1CO 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1CO 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures;
D. When Peter on the day of Pentecost was speaking to the Jews
concerning the death of Jesus he referred to it as being by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
E. The death of Jesus was no fluke of history, no accident, but a
part of the determined plan of God to reveal His love to man.
1PE 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain
conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
1PE 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
1PE 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
II. Let us look at some of these prophecies.
A. Micah 5:1 They shall smite the Judge of Israel with rods upon
the cheek. There are other prophecies concerning His being
smitten.
1. Zech said, "Smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be
scattered."
2. Isaiah prophesied of His back being smitten. 50:6 I
gave My back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair; I hid not My face from shame and
spitting.
B. What does the record of the gospels tell us?
1. Mark tells us in 14:27 that Jesus said to His
disciples, "All of you will be offended this night
because of Me, for it is written, Smite the Shepherd
and the sheep will be scattered."
2. Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on Him and to cover
His face and buffet Him and to say unto Him, Prophesy;
and the servants did strike Him with the palms of their
hands."
3. Mark 15:19 "And they smote Him on the head with a reed
and did spit upon Him.
4. Luke tells us in 22:63 that the men that held Jesus,
mocked Him and smote Him, and when they had blindfolded
Him they struck Him on the face, and said to Him,
"Prophesy and tell us who struck you."
C. Let us back up for a moment and first look at the prophecies of
the rejection of the Messiah from the beginning.
1. First it was prophesied that he would be betrayed by a
friend.
a. Psa.41:9 "My own close friend, in whom I
trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted
up his heel against Me.
b. Jesus said in John 13:18 as He was talking with
His disciples at the last supper, "I speak not
of all of you for I know who I have chosen: but
that the scripture might be fulfilled, one of
them that ate bread with Me has lifted up His
heel against Me. Then Jesus said, "One of you
will betray Me."
c. When Judas led the soldiers into the garden to
arrest Jesus, Jesus addressed him as friend.
Matt.26:50
2. The prophet Zechariah said, 11:12,13 "And I said to
them, If you think good, give Me My price; and if not
forbear. So they weighed for My price thirty pieces of
silver. And the Lord said unto Me, cast it unto the
potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them.
And I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to
the potter in the house of the Lord."
a. Matthew tells us his gospel 27:3 that Judas who
betrayed Him when he saw that He was condemned,
repented himself and brought again the thirty
pieces of silver to the chief priests and
elders saying, "I have sinned in that I have
betrayed innocent blood. And they said. What is
that to us, it's your problem. And he cast down
the pieces of silver in the temple, and
departed and went out and hung himself. And
the chief priests took the silver pieces and
said it is not lawful for us to put it back
into the treasury because it is the price of
blood. And they took counsel and bought with
the money a potters field to bury strangers in.
D. Looking at the prophecies concerning His trial.
1. He would not speak up in His own defense. Isa. 53:7 "He
was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not
His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He
openeth not His mouth.
2. Matthew tells us 27:12 "And when He was accused of the
chief priests and elders, He answered nothing. Then
Pilate said unto Him, "Do you hear all the things they
are accusing you of?" And He answered not a word, so
that the governor marvelled greatly.
3. Isa. 50:6 prophesied, "I gave My back to the smiters,
and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid
not My face from shame and spitting."
a. In Isaiah 53:5 the prophet said, "And with His
stripes we are healed.
b. Matt. 27:6 tells us that Pilate when he had
scourged Jesus turned Him over the to Jews to
be crucified.
c. Matt. 26:67 declares concerning the treatment
of Jesus when He was being tried before the
High Priest, "Then did they spit in His face
and buffet Him." Then in 27:30 Matthew tells us
concerning the soldiers, "And
they spit upon Him and they took a reed and
smote Him on the head."
4. The gospels tell us of the horrible beatings that Jesus
took.
a. Luke tells us 22:64 that they blindfolded Him
and began to strike Him on the face.
b. Matt. 27:29 speaks of the crown of thorns that
was pressed upon His head, and of His being hit
on the head with a reed.
c. This must have left His face an ugly mess.
d. Isaiah prophesied, 52:14 that His face was so
marred that you could not recognize Him as a
man. In 53:2 he said, "And when we see Him
their is no beauty that we should desire Him,
but He was wounded for our transgressions, and
bruised for our iniquities.
E. Prophesies concerning His death on the cross.
1. Ps. 37:16 "They pierced My hands and My feet."
2. Zech. 12:10 In his prophecy of the future return of
Jesus said, "They shall look upon Me whom they have
pierced."
3. Isaiah 53:12 declares that He made intercession for the
transgressors.
4. Luke 23:34 Tells us that when they came to the place
where they crucified Jesus, "Then said Jesus, Father
forgive them for they know not what they do."
5. Isa. 52:13 declares "Behold My servant shall deal
prudently He shall be exalted and extolled, and be
very high."
a. The New International version translates that
verse, more literally. "My servant shall be
high and lifted up, and highly exalted."
b. Jesus said to His disciples in John 12:32 "And
I if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw
all men unto Me." John tells us that Jesus was
referring to the manner of death He would die.
Same words of Isaiah.
c. Paul tells us that because He was obedient unto
death God has highly exalted Him and given Him
a name that is above every name." Phil.2:9
6. Psalm 22 begins with the words. "My God, My God, why
hast Thou forsaken Me? The psalmist goes on to
perfectly describe the conditions of a person who
suffers death by crucifixion." This was close to a
thousand years before the Romans devised this method of
putting people to death.
7. Jesus had said in John 3:14 "As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man
be lifted up."
8. Psa.22:18 declared, "They part My garments among them,
and cast lots upon My vesture."
JOH 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part;
and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout.
JOH 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but
cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture
might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment
among them, and for any vesture they did cast lots.
These things therefore the soldiers did.
9. Psalm 22:7,8 declares, All they that see Me laugh Me to
scorn, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,
saying, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver
Him let Him deliver Him seeing He delighted in Him.
a. Notice the phrase "They shake the head." Matt.
27:39 says, "And they that passed by reviled
Him, wagging their heads."
MAT 27:41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking [him], with the
scribes and elders, said,
MAT 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of
Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
will believe him.
MAT 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have
him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
MAT 27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
in his teeth.
Oh yes, Isa.53:12 said, "He has poured out His soul
unto death, and He was numbered with the
transgressors."
10. Psa. 69:21 declared, "In My thirst they gave Me
vinegar to drink.
a. Mat.27:47,8 He tells us that when Jesus cried
from the cross, "I thirst" that one of the
soldiers ran and took a sponge and filled with
vinegar and put it on a reed and gave it to Him
to drink.
11. Matthew tells us in 27:45 that when Jesus was
crucified that from the sixth hour or noon there was
darkness over the whole land.
Amos had prophesied, 8:9,10 "And it shall come to
pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I
will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I
will darken the earth on a clear day, and I
will turn your feasts into mourning,
(incidentally) Jesus was crucified on the feast
day of Passover) and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon
all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I
will make it as the mourning of an only Son.
12. John in speaking of the crucifixion declared,
JOH 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath
day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought
Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they
might be taken away.
JOH 19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and
of the other which was crucified with him.
JOH 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
they brake not his legs:
JOH 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water.
JOH 19:35 And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and
he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
JOH 19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be
fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
JOH 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom
they pierced.
a. He already mentions that this is a fulfillment of
prophecy. Psa. 34:20 declares, "He keepeth all His bones;
not one of them is broken."
Zech. 12:10 declared that they shall look upon Him whom
they have pierced.
E. Finally the prophecy concerning His burial.
1. Matthew tells us:
MAT 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
MAT 27:58 He went to Pilate, a nd begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be delivered.
MAT 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth,
MAT 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the
sepulchre, and departed.
Isaiah 53:9 And He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in
His death.
Isaiah said that God made His soul and offering for sin,
that He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for
our iniquities. For the transgressions of My people He
was stricken. That all of us like sheep had gone astray,
we had turned every one of us to our won ways, and God
had laid on Him the iniquities of us all.
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