Title:- Messiah Would be Arrested, Tried, Executed & Rise to Glory
As for the great festival of Passover, it was when Jewish families remembered the occasion they were saved from the Angel of death by the blood of a sacrificed lamb, and given liberation from their slavery in a foreign land (Exodus Chapter 12). It was at the celebration of Passover that Yeshu knew that he would be handed over to the Jewish sangha (dge ‘dun), because it was foretold in the scripture. And he understood that no person other than he himself was pure enough to die for the sins of mankind; it was only with his “own precious blood like that of a lamb without blemish or spot” (1 Peter 1:19) that the Way of Salvation could be opened.
(Prophesy)
གསུང་མགུར 41:9 – ང་ཡི་བློ་གཏད་གྲོགས་པོ་ཉེས་པོ་དང་། མཉམ་དུ་ཁ་ཟས་ཟ་ཞིང་སྡོད་མཁན་གྱིས། ང་ལས་རྒྱབ་སྒྱུར་ང་ལ་དགྲ་བྱེད་དོ།
Psalm 41:9 – Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
(Fulfilment)
He was handed over when he was betrayed by Judas. Mt 26:14-16.
He would be arrested like a dangerous criminal at night; and his disciples would run away. It was foretold.
(Prophesy)
ཛ་ཀར་ཡ 13:7 – ཀུན་དབང་ལྡན་པའི་གཙོ་བོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གིས། ཀྱེ་རལ་གྲི། ངའི་ལས་བྱེད་མཁན་རྫི་བོ་དེ་ལ་རྒོལ་ཕྱིར་ཡར་ལོང་ཞིག ཁོ་ལ་གསོད་ཅིག། དེ་རྗེས་ལུག་རྣམས་ཁ་འཐོར་དུ་འགྲོ་ཡོང་། ངས་རང་གི་མི་འབངས་རྣམས་ལ་རྒོལ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།
Zechariah 13:7 – “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the Lord of hosts.
(Fulfilment)
Yeshu allowed it to happen – Mt 26:24, 25; 26:47-56.
Messiah would be given a secret, hasty and unfair trial.
(Prophesy)
ཡེ་ཤ་ཡཱ 53:8 ཁོང་ནི་བཟུང་སྟེ་ཁྲིམས་གཅོད་བྱེས་ནས་བསད་པར་འཁྲིད། ཁོང་གི་སྐྱལ་བའི་སྐོར་སུས་ཀྱང་དོ་སྣང་བྱེད་མེད་དོ། ང་ཚོའི་མི་མང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྡིག་པའི་ཆེད། ཁོང་ལ་འཆི་བའི ཉེས་ཆད་བཏང་ཡོད་དོ།
Isaiah 53:8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
(Fulfilment)
It happened in the high priest’s house. – Mt 26:57, and Mt.26:59.
Messiah would be made unrecognizable as a human by the violence of men.
(Prophesy)
ཡེ་ཤ་ཡཱ 52:14 – ཁོང་ལ་མཐོང་མཁན་མང་པོ་ཧ་ལས་འགྱུར། ཁོང་གི་དབྱིབས་ནི་འདི་ལྟ་བུ་བཟོ་རྟ་རླག་ཡོད་པས། མི་འདྲ་བ་མི་མཐོང་ངོ།
Isaiah 52:14 – As many were astonished at you — his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
(Fulfilment)
The Roman governor had Yeshu flogged with a whip whose lashes contained embedded pieces of bone and metal, until his skin was torn into strips. John 19:1
Men would despise Messiah (Let it not be we also who mock Him).
(Prophesy)
ཡེ་ཤ་ཡཱ 53:3 – ང་ཚོས་ཁོང་ལ་སྨད་ཅིང་སྤངས་བར་བྱ། ཁོ་ཡི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ན་ཚར་བཟོད་སྲན་བྱས། སུས་ཀྱང་ཁོ་ལ་བལྟ་བར་མི་བྱེད་དོ། ཁོ་ལ་ང་ཚོས་རིང་ཐང་བརྩི་མེད་བྱས།
Isaiah 53:3 – He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Fulfilment)
The soldiers mocked (and later spectators of his crucifixion would also mock)
Messiah would die. It would be a strange, but wonderfully noble, way for Messiah to rise to His glory. What to say?
(Prophesy)
ཡེ་ཤ་ཡཱ 52:13 གཙོ་བོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཁོང་གི་བཀའ་གནང་བ། ང་ཡི་ཞབས་ཕྱིས་རང་ལས་ལེགས་པར་སྒྲུབ། ཁོང་ལ་ཆེ་མཐོང་ཆེན་པོ་ཐོབ་པར་འགྱུར།
Isaiah 52:13 – Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
(Fulfilment)
Yeshu explained his rise by stages to glory. He knew that He would first be nailed up on a cross to die in agony; but, after that, as Is. 53:13 says, He would rise. And he did rise to heaven. John 12:27-33, and Acts 1:9.
Next Post – Further prophecies of Yeshu’s crucifixion, death and burial will be given in Post No.18.
The Life of Yeshu 