Isaiah – The fifth Hebrew gospel – Chapter 53 “We thought Him to be a leper”

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Isaiah 53 The Expiation Ceremony of Transference Explained

Deut 18:15 יהוה your Elohim will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, One like me. To Him you shall listen,

The subconscious mind and conscious mind are not always in harmony.

Today I would like to influence your conscious mind…and you see if I what I present to you through the influence of Scripture permeates into your unconscious mind and brings you into harmony.

We all know Isa 53 is the suffering servant passage. 

Suffering…what classification in the Torah embodies suffering?…the leper.

The Orthodox Jewish Talmud records a story about a “Leper scholar.” Talmud Sanhedrin 98b. “The Messiah–what is his name? The Rabbis say, The Leper scholar, as it is said, `surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of Elohim and afflicted…'” (Sanhedrin 98b) 

The Talmud also “records” a supposed discourse between Rabbi Joshua Ben Levi and the prophet Elijah. The rabbi asks “When will the Messiah come?” And “By what sign may I recognize him?” Elijah tells the rabbi to go to the gate of the city where he will find the Messiah sitting among the poor lepers. The Messiah, says the prophet, sits bandaging his leprous sores one at a time, unlike the rest of the sufferers, who bandage them all at once. Why? Because He might be needed at any time and would not want to be delayed. Elijah says He will come “Today, if you will listen to his voice.” (Sanhedrin 98a)

The Lubbavitcher Rebbe teaching on Parsha Tazria in 5757 (1996-97): “Moshiach is said to be leporus for Moshiach himself suffers the pain of the end of the exile – “the affliction of leprosy” as he waits with longing and impatience for the moment the world will be fully prepared for his coming, at which time he will reveal himself and redeem the Jewish people and the entire world.”

The Gemara is a division of Talmud, a commentary on the Mishna): “The Gemara asks, what is Moshiach’s name? Chivra (Aramaic for leper) the Gemara concludes based upon the TaNaKh, Moshiach is called Chiara (the lepros one). He himself is pure, his affliction merely reflects the condition of the gamut.” (Rabbi Schochet).

Metzora – Mem, Zade, Resh, Ayin. – Leper.

Tazara’t – Leprosy – a physical symptom of a deeper spiritual condition.

Tamei – Unclean, to be contaminated with a foreign substance – a mixture.

Tahor – Clean, to be free from foreign elements.

The Hebrew words “naga” are used in the Scriptures to describe the plague of leprosy! Nega (Neh’-gah, Strong’s #5161) and naga (Na-gah’, Strongs # 5060) are words defining being stricken or plagued with the marks of leprosy!

Francis of Assisi! 

The Ritual: Vayikra 14. 

Lk 7:19 Is this the Messiah or should We look for another?

Why would John’s disciples be so confused about Yahusha’s identity?

Hadn’t John immersed Yahusha in the Jordan River? 

Why was he confused, what could have happened in the interim time?

Do we look for another?

Luk 7:21 And in the same hour He cured many of infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits. And He gave sight to many who were blind :22 And answering, Jesus said to them, Go and tell John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the gospel is proclaimed to the poor. 23 And blessed is he who shall not be offended in Me.

Matt 8:34 the whole city came out to meet Yahusha And when they saw Him, they begged that He would depart out of their borders.

Lk 4:23 And He said to them, You will surely say this proverb to Me, Physician, heal yourself. Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your native-place.

Ps. 22 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip. 

Ps 38:3 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your rage, nor peace in my bones because of my sin. (the sins of others) 4 For my crookednesses have passed over my head; like a heavy burden, too heavy for me. 5 My wounds have become stinky, festering because of my folly. 6 I have been bent down; I have been bowed down very much; all day long I have gone mourning. 7 For my loins have become filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I have become weak and greatly crushed; I howled from the groaning of my heart. 9 why, all my desire is before You; and my sighing has not been hid from You. 10 My heart is throbbing, my strength has forsaken me; And the light of my eyes also is not with me. 11 My loved ones and my friends stand back from my plague, and my neighbors stand far away. 12 And those seeking my life lay a snare; and those seeking my evil have spoken of destruction, and utter deceit all day long. 13 But I, as one deaf, do not hear; and as a dumb one who does not open his mouth. 14 I am like a man who does not hear, and who has no rebukes in his mouth. 15 For on You, O יהוה, I have waited; You do answer, O hwhy my Elohim. 16 For I said, “Otherwise they would rejoice over me, when my foot slips they would exalt themselves over me.” 17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is always with me. 18 For I confess my crookedness; I am sorry over my sin (The sins of others that Yahusha carried!).

Ps. 88:7 Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your breakers. Selah. 8 You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out; 9my eye grows dim because of affliction.

Lamentations 3: 4 He has worn out my flesh and my skin, He has destroyed my bones.

Ps 69:20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 And they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Lk 20 I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, this is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

Vayikra 13 plague of leprosy – Naga #5060, or variants of this root word appear throughout Vayikra 13 and 14. Naga – to be stricken with a plague of leprosy, plagued, infection, mildew, sore. 

Isa 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom was the arm of יהוה revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or beauty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should desire Him 3 despised and shunned by men, a man of pains and knowing sickness. (Ish mak’ôbâh – a man who is habitually or permanently sick) And as one from whom the face is hidden, (Lev 13:45) being despised, and we did not consider Him. 4  Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases. Yet we reckoned Him smitten (nâga‛stricken with leprosy), stricken by Elohim, and afflicted. 5  But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And יהוה has laid on Him the (Aleph-Tav) iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, but He did not open His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment. And as for His generation, who considered that He shall be cut off from the land of the living? For the transgression of My people He was stricken (nâga‛stricken with leprosy). 9 And He was appointed a burial-site with the wrong, and with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was deceit in His mouth. 10 But יהוה was pleased to crush Him, He laid sickness on Him, (that when He made Himself an offering for guilt, He would see a seed, He would prolong His days and the pleasure of יהוה prosper in His hand. 11 He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses. 12 Therefore I give Him a portion among the great, and He divides the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His being unto death, and He was counted with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Jn. 20:14 And having said this, she turned around and saw Yahusha standing, but she did not know that it was Yahusha. 15 Yahusha said to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said to Him, “Master, if You have carried Him away, say to me where You put Him, and I shall take Him away.” 16 Yahsuah said to her, “Miryam!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 

Can we even imagine the kind of rejection, the disdain, and the contempt that Yahusha would have received from tens of thousands of the very people, who He came to save! 

Yahushua’s rejection was so extreme that the multitudes hid their faces from Him!  

But why…they hid their faces because of Yahusha’s leporus appearance! 

The Multitudes believed that Yahusha was tamei/unclean because He carried the marks of leprosy! 

As His final Passover approached his face and body were marred more than any man’s, even to the point that he no longer even looked human! 

Yahusha’s disfigurement was caused by diseases, which He transferred to himself as the sin bearer for all of Israel! 

He suffered the penalty for the people’s rebellion as well as ours in His own flesh! 

As he healed the multitudes He forgave their sins and took the penalty of their sins into His own body! 

Yashayahu 53:4 Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him stricken, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted.

Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Isaiah 53:4 vere languores nostros ipse tulit et dolores nostros ipse portavit et nos putavimus eum quasi leprosum et percussum a Deo et humiliatum.

We did esteem him stricken–judicially, namely, for His sins; whereas it was for ours. “We thought Him to be a leper” [JEROME, Vulgate], leprosy being the direct divine judgment for guilt.

Douay Rheims Bible Isaiah 53:4 Surely He hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought Him as it were a leper, and as one struck by god (should be hwhy) and afflicted.

Amplified Bible Isaiah 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by god [as if with leprosy].

Initially leprosy manifests itself as light spots or marks on the skin, which later transform into varying pigments and colors leading into severe festering boils and puss! 

Leprosy and sin. Being TAHOR or TAMEI before YHWH.

Leprosy, once dark and not spreading in the skins surface, the man would be brought to the Kohen for a lawful/halahic ruling. If he was ruled TAHOR/clean then he would proceed to the Temple to sacrifice (Vay 14:1-32).

• ïIf Naga is deeper than the skin – you’re put away – TAMEI
• ïIf Naga spreads in your body or within the body – TAMEI
• ïIf your flesh is raw – TAMEI
• ïIf Naga is light, but spreading – TAMEI
• ïIf Naga is really dark but not deep in your flesh and not spreading – TAHOR
• ïIf you overcome the Naga,  if the Naga begins to fade – TAHOR
• ïIf raw flesh/is overcome and the whole body is overcome/white – TAHOR

Exodus 4

“Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, and see, his hand was leprous, like snow. And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and see, it was restored like his other flesh. “And it shall be, if they do not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the first sign, they shall believe the voice of the latter sign.

The second sign of Moshe is: the “bosom” (Jn. 1:18 Yahusha is the bosom of יהוה) is able to take on and transfer leprosy – the leporous hand that touches the bosom is healed, the bosom is the source of healing by transferring the leprosy to itself. 

Notice: Moshe had to take off his sandals for he was standing on holy ground in the intimate presence of יהוה,  yet white as snow,  a leporus condition that didn’t disqualify him from the holy place. 

Yahusha willingly took on the penalties for our sins in the form of sickness and disease in His own body, while He lived, ultimately taking the death penalty for our sins, when He died! 

יהוה was pleased to lay sickness and disease on Yahusha according to the Scriptures! 

Remember when Yahusah healed the leper as He descended from the Mountain! (Matthew 8, Mark 1, Luke 5)! 

Mark 1: 43 And Yahusha sternly charged him and sent him away at once, 44 and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” 45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Yahusha could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.

Yahusha with his white leporous skin includes all the pigmentations of mankind. He truly is the end to all racism and prejudice. 

There are four basic skin colors: white, yellow, red, black.

According to the ancient scholars all these pigmentations correspond in turn to the four letters of the Tetra-Grammaton. White=YOD, Red=upper HEY, Yellow=VAV, Black=lower HEY.