Justice and Mercy part 7 The Arm of the Lord Revealed

The arm of the Lord - God's power to redeem, save, and bring victory - working for His people in the Old Testament, was not visible. God's new covenant of mercy was going to require a revealing of His arm in the visible, physical realm in order to fulfill the requirement of God's justice of the shedding of blood to redeem man from sin.

The arm of the Lord is Christ - the mercy and power of God revealed in flesh and blood.

Isaiah gave an in-depth description and prophecy of the arm of the Lord revealed years before Christ was born:

"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? ... 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. ... 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 the LORD 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. 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 transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. ... He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." - Isaiah 53:1, 3, 5-9, 11 KJV

"When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins." - Isaiah 53:11 NLT

As Isaiah also prophesied:

"The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." - Isaiah 52:10 KJV

To be continued…