Anyway, so there you are just walking around in your dress, with your long-flowing ZZ Top beard, minding your own business... when suddenly the Voice of God comes to you and tells you to write this down:
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.
What would you think, if you were told this? Would you wonder who God is talking about here? This is part of what is called Isaiah 53, which is also referred to as “The Suffering Servant”. Since this was written over 700 years before Christ - yet it is impossible to read this without even a child recognizing that is precisely Who is being referred to - what does that tell you? Could anyone but God be responsible for these words?
Now go even further back in time a few hundred more years… close to 1000B.C. Now imagine you are a shepherd who has killed lions protecting your sheep, and a fierce warrior, and one who was chosen by God Himself to lead your people.
Basically, you are a total stud - however, you are most likely still wearing a dress, but one that you can fight in. They called it "girding up your loins"; hitching your skirt so you could run or partake in strenuous activity (although it sounds like something I would say to my butcher: "...and gird up those loins, I want to slow roast them later...").
You are also a great poet and songwriter, and God speaks directly through you. And one of the things He speaks through you is what we now refer to as Psalm 22, which contains the following:
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
I am scorned and despised by all!
Everyone who sees me mocks me.
They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
“Is this the one who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save him!
If the Lord loves him so much,
let the Lord rescue him!”
My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax, melting within me.
My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
I can count all my bones.
My enemies stare at me and gloat.
They divide my garments among themselves
and throw dice for my clothing.
Who is God referring to here? Do you think David knew Who he was writing about?
It would be 1000 years before this event took place in (literally) excruciatingly accurate detail, when Jesus was mocked, beaten, and crucified. Yet if you read the gospel accounts of Jesus’ crucifixion, there is no question this is what is being described here.
Do you think it is possible that a man could write such an accurate portrayal of events that won’t happen for 1000 years? So accurate that a child could read this and know exactly Who it refers to?
Could anyone but an all-knowing God have done this?
NO WAY