> HH: But I believe that the Servant passages
describe the coming Messiah.You're right!
But the Messiah in Isaiah is Cyrus!
There are quite aCyrus.
number of these passages, and some short texts
may belong to this grouping despite lacking the
word "servant" (e.g., Isa 48:16).
Some of these
passages have the Servant speak in the firstHe speaks to him as if he were present because he is
person. In other places the Lord addresses the
Servant as present. Yet I believe he is a figure
of prophecy.
present.
> > >> HH: A second possibility for Isaiah 55:5 might be that the second
>> person masculine singular addressee is the nation Israel.> this would seem to be a meaningful assertion:
>
>What would the point of that be? That a nation that Israel doesn't
>know comes running to it? This is royal imagery, as we see
>in the psalm.
HH: Well, if israel were the ruling nation, then
Not unless Israel is the Servant and redeems itself.
Then you don't have a redeemer or a messiah, just
Israel.
But it was Cyrus who rescued the Jews, returned them
to YHWH physically by returning them to the temple
and YHWH to the temple.
This is the task of the Messiah, of the redeemer.
We await another one to do the same as Cyrus did.
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