Mosiah 14

(All of my own thoughts are in red type 6/20 Green 3/21 Orange 6/22  Brown 2023)

Chapter 14

Isaiah speaks messianically—The Messiah’s humiliation and sufferings are set forth—He makes His soul an offering for sin and makes intercession for transgressors—Compare Isaiah 53. About 148 B.C. Consider the entire text highlighted:) I'm going to go through this reading and put C if it only can apply to Christ; S if it can only apply to the End-Time Servant and B if it could be both

  1 Yea, even doth not Isaiah say: Who hath ^abelieved our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord S revealed? Is Isaiah saying "who is it that believes my prophecy? Who is it that recognize the "arm of the Lord?" Why is Abinadi quoting Isaiah to King Noah and his priests?    
  2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground; B he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. S? I don't believe that Christ wasn't handsome (if that is what this is saying) What is a "root out of dry ground"? He is not wealthy?
  3 He is ^adespised and rejected of men; C - only some men, not all; S - according to prophecy What makes men "despise" him? This word implies a negative emotional reaction a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; C in Gethsemane; S - will know in the future and we hid as it were our faces from him; How was this C? Could be B he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  C was despised and esteemed not by some, not all. S will be, according to prophesy
  4 Surely he has ^aborne our ^bgriefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. C literally experienced our griefs and sorrows S may bear the griefs and sorrows of our mistreatment of him 
  5 But he was ^awounded for our ^btransgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; This could mean that the price for our eventual peace was paid by Him; or that peace represents our silence or apathy in a desire to avoid conflict, for which we deserve chastening, and that burden is taken on by the S and with his stripes we are ^chealed. B - Christ's atonement offers healing; and the Servant is marred and is a means of deliverance
  6 All we, like ^asheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all. B - I think the S takes on persecution because of our sins that require he come and set God's house in order, at his own peril and persecution. "All" doesn't seem to exclude anyone. How have we "all" gone astray? What is our "own way"? My thoughts are that until we approach God in total submission to do His will in ALL things, that we are "going after our own way" which means we have gone astray. 
  7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he ^aopened not his mouth; B he is brought as a ^blamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth. B
  8 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgressions of my people was he stricken. C
  9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the ^arich in his death; because he had done no ^bevil, neither was any deceit in his mouth. C
 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to ^abruise him; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his ^bseed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. S - unless "prolong his days" means he was resurrected, not sure how this is Christ. 
 11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall ^abear their iniquities. B
 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the ^agreat, and ^bhe shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made ^cintercession for the transgressors. B? Did he have all this memorized? Avaraham Gileadi has a commentary on Isaiah that he interprets for the last days. In this chapter he says that it speaks of Jesus Christ and also an “end-time” servant. Since the Lord himself commanded us to search Isaiah, I think it’s time for me to read this book of scripture again. I just read all this asking if Abinadi could be saying that he himself experienced all these things and maybe that is why he is quoting it? It seems to fit...