One of my favorite prophecies! Isaiah 49:6

[RiJoRi]

The Bible is about the Ancient Near and Middle East, unfortunately, geography is not taught in USA public schools, so most Americans don't know where the places in the bible are, they think Babylon is New York.

Nah. I know Babylon is 25-30 miles east of NYC. I know because I lived in the township for most of my life. ? Nice little village, BTW.

--Rich

 

[Our Lord's God]

I know that Jews of the Ben Shapiro type would reject this but I would like to know what he and others like him think about what is said here in Isaiah 49:6 that this servant in Isaiah 49 and 42 and 53 are indeed all the same servant noticing all the similarities and can not be the nation of Israel as this "servant" "shouldest" "raise up the tribes of Jacob, and...restore the preserved of Israel" which means this servant can't be Israel or Jacob for they will be restored by this servant. And of course Jesus has been the light to the Gentiles for 2000 plus years!

Listen to me, you islands;
hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the Lord called me;
from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.
2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow
and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.”
5 And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel to himself,
for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength—
6 he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

Interpretation by Confirmation bias is always a bad idea.