In Ex 6:6 and Duet 5:15:
* God told Moses ONLY HIS ARM saved the Hebrews, they
DID NOT save themselves.
And in Job 40, God himself states:
* NO ONE has an ARM like God.
* Your right ARM can NOT save you.
Now notice, God has stated VERY PLAINLY that YOU can
NOT save yourself, only HIS ARM can. So when reading
the Isaiah 53 verse set, you have to realize that
the ARM OF GOD can not be the Hebrews (God's ARM
saved them, they did not), and it can't be some simple
man (no man's ARM can save himself, let alone others).
It's fairly obvious that the ARM OF GOD in Isaiah 53,
MUST BE the actual ARM OF GOD, especially since that
ARM OF GOD is expected to save MANY in the world from
their sins (those that accept him).
Further, the name for the ARM OF GOD was given in
the Isaiah 53:1, Job 40:9, Ex 6:6, and Duet 5:15 verse
sets as "zeroah", all being the same ARM OF GOD. Yet
in Job 40:14, where God is talking about YOUR own arm
NOT being able to save you, God uses the word "yamiyn"
and NOT "zeroah".
It's clear that God is being VERY SPECIFIC about how
ONLY his ARM is able to save and YOUR arm can NOT
save you.
The New Testament account shows a direct correlation
between the ARM OF GOD in Isaiah 53 and the HAND of
God (Jesus) in the New Testament. Both accounts show
much the same character of events and the same ARM OF
GOD showing up as a man, being despised and rejected
by those he came to save, etc... But as both say, Jesus
showed up to save us from our sins.
Why?
Isa 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hid his
face from you, that he will not hear.
God is saying here that HIS HAND can save AND he
could hear us pray to him, EXCEPT our SINS have separated
us from him and turned him from us such that he
won't hear.
Yet if anyone wanted to return to God there was
no way set up for it, hence no INCENTIVE to for us
to return to God:
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth
from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD
saw it, and it displeased him that there was
no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was NO MAN, and wondered
that there was NO INTERCESSOR: therefore
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HIS ARM brought salvation unto him;
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and his righteousness, it sustained him.
By God sending HIS OWN ARM as a man to die for our
sins, he's in effect paid the price for sin of those who
would believe him. With the sin paid for, God could
then turn back to us and listen to our prayers.
The only one capable of saving is God himself, God's
own ARM, sent as a man as described in Isaiah 53.
That man would have to CONFIRM himself being the ARM OF
GOD and as such, a part of God himself. And Jesus did
just that.
Jesus gave a set of statements that LOCK him to being
AT LEAST God's HAND:
(Jesus speaking)
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me:
(Jesus is also described as the good shepherd, not running
when danger arises, but laying down his life for his sheep,
much like Isaiah 53 where the "man" or "servant" lays down
his life for the sins of the world.)
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than
all; and no man is able to pluck them out of
my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
* Sheep or followers are given into Jesus's hand by the Father.
* No one is able to pluck them out of Jesus's hand.
* No one is able to pluck them out of the Father's hand.
* Jesus and the Father are one.
Jesus has plainly admitted to being AT LEAST God's HAND.
Hence Jesus is the ARM OF GOD, or God's hand.
As such, there isn't any split up of God and there
never was. God is still the same God he's always been.
He simply sent his own ARM to save the world similar
to when he saved the Hebrews long ago "through a mighty
HAND and by a stretched out ARM".
God made it all, Jesus died for our sins.
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