Isaiah’s prophecy about the coming Savior gives us further details on the nature of Christ’s atonement.  From this, we can draw implications for whom His atonement was made.  In his essay “Stricken for the Transgression of My People,” J. Alec Motyer expounds on the various requirements for a proper penal substitute.  His more literal translation of Isaiah 53:5 reads, “He was wounded because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities.”  Further, he renders 53:8, “He was cut down from the land of the living because of the rebellion of my people to whom the blow belonged.”… Read more