I just came back from a weekend listening to Mark Finley--he said that he and his wife have been taking seriously Ellen White's admonition to take "a thoughtful hour each day in contemplation of the life of Christ. We should take it point by point, and let the imagination grasp each scene, especially the closing ones" (Desire of Ages, p. 83). He has found six chapters, or pairs of chapters, that relate the closing scenes of Christ's life: John 19, Luke 23, Mark 14 and 15, Matthew 26 and 27, Psalm 22, and... Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 53 is a great chapter. It tells us that Jesus was not physically attractive: "He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him (v. 2). Jesus "has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;... He was wounded for our transgressions.... All we like sheep have gone astray;... And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah has many prophecies about the Messiah, but chapter 53 is a beautiful poem/prophecy about our Savior, our Messiah.
Joseph Wolff was born a Jew in Germany in 1795, but became a Christian through the influence of a Lutheran neighbor, who asked Wolff to read Isaiah 53. Wolff was a genius, able to speak in some 14 languages, and a tireless missionary with a burden to convert Jews to Christianity. He preached the 2300 day prophecy. You can read more about his miraculous brushes with death, his preaching, and his adventures here.
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