Lamb of God, I come...
Today we are used to reading verses from chapters through the Bible – but up until something like 1000 years ago people were used to reading Bibles without any chapter and verse numbers – it’s interesting that when people came to put the chapters into the Book of the Prophet Isaiah they split it into 66 chapters - the exact number of books there are in the whole Bible – they also split up the two parts of the Book of Isaiah into 39 chapters and 27 chapters – a lot of numbers to take in so far, but you may not be surprised to know that the Old Testament has 39 books and the New Testament 27 books…
And Isaiah in the first 39 chapters summarizes the message of the Old Testament and in the next 27 chapters he summarizes exactly the message of the New Testament… The second part of Isaiah (chapter 40) begins with the words later used by John the Baptist, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord’… It moves on to a servant anointed by the Holy Spirit, dying for the sins of his people, and being raised a