The Arm of the LORD

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

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, defeating the enemy of man’s soul, satan. This body would contain God Himself, with all power and authority to deliver, redeem, and to save.

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. This body is called, “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 revealed.

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 53:9 KJV - 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.

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 God Himself - JESUS CHRIST! Isaiah 53 describes the gospel - how Jesus saved and redeemed humanity by His death, burial, and resurrection. (Isaiah 53:8-10).

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 by the gospel of Jesus Christ, bringing salvation to all the nations, reaching to the ends of the earth. (John 12:37-41, Romans 10:14-16, Matthew 16:15-17, Acts 2:38-39).

Jesus, as the arm of the LORD, reaches out to humanity, redeeming us from sin, bringing us back to Himself. There was no man that could do this. Only the holy arm of the LORD could save and deliver us. (Hebrews 2:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:19, Matthew 1:21-23).