Listen Up by C. R. Oliver (learn to read books TXT) 📕

10 But it was the Lord's good plan to bruise Him and fill Him with grief.However, when His soul has been made an offering for sin, then He shall have a multitude of children, many heirs. He shall live again, and God's program shall prosper in His hands. 11 And when He sees all that is accomplished by the anguish of His soul, He shall be satisfied; and because of what He has experienced, My righteous Servant shall make many to becounted righteous before God, for He shall bear all their sins. 12 Therefore, I will give Him the honors of one who is mighty and great because He has poured out His soul unto death. He was counted as a sinner, and He bore the sins of many, and He pled with God for sinners.
TLB

Isaiah's portrayal of events surrounding the death of the Son of God leaves no detail unturned. Jesus' silence in not answering the magistrates, His prison trial, His burial in a rich man's tomb and His resurrection ("He shall live again") all came to pass like a panorama of Isaiah's words. Over 600 years before the time, Isaiah spoke as if these events were "already accomplished." They were! "Before the foundation of the world He was a lamb slain." It was the plan of God for man's redemption before there was a man. 

Therefore, the accolades, beginning in verse 10, grace His frame. The word, HOWEVER (v.10), stands like a huge gateway--giving mankind a glimpse of the enormity of God's purposes. Through His sacrifice, "God's program shall prosper in His hands." 

Jesus rejoiced in what was accomplished in His endurance of the cross ("For the joy set before Him"). "He was satisfied" with what He had finished.

"…because of what He has experienced, My righteous Servant shall make many to be counted righteous before God, for He shall bear all their sins."

Paul said that His sacrifice gave us the opportunity to be "filled with all the fullness of Christ!" Isaiah said this was why honor flowed to Him. Revelation said, "To Him be glory and honor and power both now and forever.…"

12 Therefore, I will give Him the honors of one who is mighty and great because He has poured out His soul unto death. He was counted as a sinner, and He bore the sins of many, and He pled with God for sinners.

 

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Publication Date: 07-06-2015

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Thanks to C. R. Oliver and the Newsletter Division for allowing the use of his Bible studies for this book.