Isaiah 53:3-5 NASB
He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. [4] Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. [5] But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
Malachi 4:2 AMP
But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun (Son) of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall.
At the Cross, Jesus was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, because he took our grief, and our pain and our sickness and affliction into himself. In him, our fallen, broken, devastated old self was put to death and forever buried. On Easter morning, the Son of righteousness arose with healing in his wings. Like a phoenix, he rose from the ashes, carrying us up with him from the buried the ashes of our fallen false selves. The Hebrew word for “healing” that is used in Malachi 4 could also be translated “cure.” The finished work of Christ in his death and resurrection, and our union with him, was God’s healing that was the cure for the person that we were, burdened by pain and sorrow and grief, caused by our sin or the sins of others against us. When we arose with Jesus 2000 years ago in his resurrection it was the cure for the dark thing we had become under the reign of sin and the dominion of Satan. In union with his resurrection life and the power of resurrection, we are no longer identified by the devastation of the Fall and its effect on us. We are now identified with Jesus and all the wholeness that is in him. It says in Romans 6:10 that in the death that Jesus died, he died to sin “once and for all,” and the resurrection life that he is now living, he is living to God. Because his crucifixion was our crucifixion and his resurrection was our resurrection, we can shout the shout of Romans 6:11, “Even so I consider myself dead to sin, but living to God in the risen and ascended Christ Jesus.” The entire fallen personality was dealt with at the cross, and you and I never again have to accept that we are the confused messed up broken person that we once were, for we are now healed new creations in Christ. Jesus came, died, and rose again that you and I might have life and have it more abundantly, and Jesus is not a respecter of persons. The healing and the wings of the Son of righteousness brought the cure to sin’s reign for every single believer.