ABOVE: Joseph Merrick, notoriously known as the "Elephant Man," as he looked with his deformities.
About Joseph Merrick:
Merrick, born in 1862 in the English city of Leicester, showed signs of deformity at the early age of five. By the time he reached his teenage years, Merrick was completely deformed and had been rejected by his community and even his own parents. For several years, Merrick joined a traveling circus. He became widely known for his role as a fairground freak until he met a surgeon who arranged his admission in the Royal London Hospital, where he ultimately died at the age of 27.
Joseph Merrick has been referred to as "History's Most Deformed Man" by medical science. Joseph lived a tragic life of rejection, abuse, and loneliness -and found the love of friends only near the end of his too-short life. I give God all the glory that Joseph knew the LORD, and I look forward to seeing him in glory.
Behold this man. Consider his suffering. Think of how you would react upon seeing him in real life, up close and personal. Think upon this. Really think about it.
And then consider that he actually was NOT history's most deformed man. Y'shua was.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: Isaiah 52:14
...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53: 2b - 3
