Isaiah 53 is an amazingly prophetic passage that foretold the horrible suffering that YAHUSHA would endure on our behalf. However, it also gives us tremendous insight into who YAHUSHA really is.

 

Isaiah 53

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the ARM of YHWH revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of Elohim, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to His own way; and YHWH hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 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....

 

In this amazing passage, YAHUSHA is clearly referred to as the "ARM of YHWH". Similarly, the book of John confirms that YAHUSHA is the "ARM of YHWH" referred to by Isaiah. 

 

John 12:37-38

But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on Him: That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, YHWH, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the ARM of YHWH been revealed?

 

Are there any other verses about the "ARM of YHWH"? 

 

Exodus 6:6

Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out ARM, and with great judgments

 

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or hath Elohim assayed to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a Mighty HAND, and by a stretched out ARM, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

 

Deuteronomy 5:15

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH thy Elohim brought thee out thence through a Mighty HAND and by a stretched out ARM: therefore YHWH thy Elohim commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.

 

Deuteronomy 7:19

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the Mighty HAND, and the stretched out ARM, whereby YHWH thy Elohim brought thee out: so shall YHWH thy Elohim do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

 

Deuteronomy 11:2

And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of YHWH your Elohim, His greatness, His Mighty HAND, and His stretched out ARM,

 

Deuteronomy 26:8

And YHWH brought us forth out of Egypt with a Mighty HAND, and with an outstretched ARM, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

 

2 Kings 17:36

But YHWH, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out ARM, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye worship, and to Him shall ye do sacrifice.

 

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O ARM of YHWH; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

 

Isaiah 52:10

YHWH hath made bare His kodesh ARM in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our Elohim.

 

Isaiah 62:8

YHWH hath sworn by his Right HAND, and by the ARM of His STRENGTH, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

 

Joshua 4:24

That all the people of the earth might know the HAND of YHWH, that it is mighty: that ye might fear YHWH your Elohim for ever.

 

In all these verses above, reference is repeatedly being made to the Mighty HAND or ARM of YHWH. The Scriptures repeatedly indicate that YHWH brought the children of Israel out of Egypt by His Mighty HAND & outstretched ARM. The Apostle John & the Prophet Isaiah have made it clear that these are all references to YAHUSHA the Messiah. As the Mighty HAND & ARM of YHWH, YAHUSHA brought the children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt.

 

These references to YAHUSHA as the Mighty HAND or outstretched ARM of YHWH, seem to indicate that YAHUSHA is & has always been the physical manifestation of YHWH in this material world. Similarly, the Prophet Isaiah also refers to YAHUSHA as the "Angel of His Presence."

 

Isaiah 63:7-9

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of YHWH, and the praises of YHWH, according to all that YHWH hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He hath bestowed on them according to His mercies,and according to the multitude ofHis lovingkindnesses. For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour. In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

 

What else do the Scriptures tell us about the "Angel of YHWH" or the Angel of His Presence?