The Arm of the LORD

God is Spirit. The arm of the LORD is a metaphor of God’s power and strength. The arm of the LORD delivers, redeems, and saves.

Exodus 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, 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 26:8 And the LORD 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:

Psalms 77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Then, the Lord speaks of power and redemption by his arm in a much greater way. His arm that saved and delivered his people from physical bondage in Egypt, defeating their enemies, was now going to take on form.

Not as a literal arm, but as a holy human body that would save and redeem all humanity from the spiritual bondage of sin and death, defeating the enemy of man’s soul, the devil. (Hebrews 2:14-15). This body would contain God himself, with all power and authority to deliver, redeem, and to save. (Colossians 1:19, Colossians 2:9, Matthew 28:18)

God had looked for a man that could redeem mankind, but there was none righteous, without sin, that could pay the price. So God himself stepped in to pay the price. He did this by the power of his redeeming and saving arm, making himself a body without sin, the arm of the Lord.

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

Isaiah 53 describes the arm of the LORD and how Jesus saved and redeemed humanity.

Isaiah 53:1 - Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Isaiah 53:3 - 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…

Isaiah 53:5 KJV - 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.

Isaiah 53:6 KJV - 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.

Isaiah 53:7 KJV - 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.

Isaiah 53:8 KJV - 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…

Isaiah 53:10 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isaiah 53:11 - 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…

We find the arm of the Lord to be JESUS CHRIST!

John 12:37-38 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: that the saying of Esaias [Isaiah] the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Isaiah 52:10 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.

The power of God’s holy arm is revealed to the world. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ, bringing salvation to all the nations, reaching to the ends of the earth. (1Corinthians 15:1-4, Acts 2:38)

Jesus as the arm of the LORD is the power of God that reaches out to humanity, redeeming us from sin, bringing us back to himself. (2Corinthians 5:19). There was no man that had the power to do this. Only the mighty power of Jesus, the arm of the LORD could deliver us.