Isaiah 52–53 is the gospel preached 700 years before Christ. The Servant is exalted through humiliation, rejected by the world, crushed as a substitute, and raised in triumph by the sovereign will of God. This is not martyrdom; it is substitution, victory, and redemption accomplished. Advent strength flows from the cross of Christ.

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