Of course! YOU are "the Messiah", so there is no-need for a (singular) "Messiah".
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I'm not the messiah, Israel is not the messiah, these are all wrong ideas coming up in your mind because you have been brainwashed with the erroneous idea that Isaiah 53 speaks about the messiah.
1) Jews are being punished by God
Of course they are.
2) Jews souls are being made an offering for sin
An offering for their own sins.
3) Jews souls see travail
Yes, just like everybody else.
4) Jews are "justifying many"
Jews are the teachers of the world, and so they justify many.
5) Jews are "baring other's iniquities"
No, also that is nowhere written in Isaiah 53. Jews bare their own iniquities.
6) Jewish souls is being poured out unto death
All the time.
"Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high."
>> As the prophets announce, Israel will be exalted, see Isaiah 60, 61, and 62.
"As many were astonished at him -- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men "
>> The servant Israel was no longer a nation when they were several times dispersed over the whole earth. People were astonished about what happened to the Jews; persecutions, crusaders who wiped out complete Jewish communities before they took off to the holy land, including women and children. There was the Christian inquisition, who had the horrible habit of torturing Jews to death, there was the holocaust in which Christian Europe murdered six million civilians, amongst them 1,500,000 children, there was plenty of reason to be upset about what befell the Jews.
"so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand."
>> The world will be very surprised when the Jews, after almost 2000 years of exile, will come back to the holy land, and against all odds, will become very prominent amongst the nations.
"Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground;
>> With 70 souls Jacob moved to Egypt, and there, in the arid ground, despite all the hardships imposed upon the Jews, Israel became a great people.
"he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him."
>> But it was a slave people, in a horrible way suppressed by the Egyptians, who also committed genocide on the Jewish boys.
"He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
>> In Egypt, but also during the other exiles, Israel was acquainted with disasters: deportations, torture, killings. Under those conditions nobody was very happy to be a Jew. The people of Israel was despised, even by the Jews themselves who had to endure all these disasters. In those circumstances, being a Jew was not something to be happy about.
"Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted."
>> Because Israel strayed away from Gods ways, it incurred the punishment connected to those sins, just like we see throughout the whole history of Israel. They correctly assumed that Israel was smitten and afflicted by God.
"He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed."
>> Israel was severely punished for the sins of Israel, and through the punishment acquired the cure, the total remission of sins.
"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
>> Israel strayed away from the law of God, and God brought the punishment for those sins upon Israel.
"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth."
Psalm 44: "But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
A good example of that is the holocaust, in which the Jews went like sheep to the slaughter.
"By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living,"
>> When Israel was overrun by their enemies and led into exile, it was dead as a nation. The land of Israel didn't exist anymore.
"stricken for the transgression of my people".
>> Israel stricken for the sins of Israel.
"And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth."
>> Israel was conquered by and led in exile to the nations who were then economically and military on top of the world: "With a rich man in his death".
The reason for the punishment was idolatry, and not violence or deceit.
"Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief;"
>> God punished Israel.
"when you make him an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand;"
>> When Israel repents, and accepts the punishment from God, Israel will live again, and God's plan with Israel shall proceed.
"he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied;"
>> Because Israel has been punished for it's sins, "it's travail", their sins are abolished, and God's plan for Israel will play itself out, and Israel shall see it "until satisfaction".
"by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities."
>> Israel shall through it's knowledge of God and his laws, knowledge not revealed to any other nation, turn many Israelites to a righteous path: "Fear God and observe his commandments". But when Israel strays, it will receive the punishment from God.
"Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
Israel will be lifted up, because it repented from it's sins, and was severely punished for it's sins. It was (correctly) numbered with the transgressors, it bore the sins of many, and the righteous amongst them prayed for the sinners.
