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4. Condemn another in their place?
Did the judge not allow himself to be condemned to death on his son's behalf?
Read it again,
Because this is what God did for us.
Here is an OT prophecy written centuries before Christ that speak of this condemnation poured on this messiah or the servant
Starting in Chapter 52 of the prophet Isaiah;
Behold,
My Servant shall [
d]deal prudently;
He shall be exalted and [
e]extolled and be very high.
14 Just as many were astonished at you,
So
His visage was marred more than any man,
And
His form more than the sons of men;
15 So shall He sprinkle many nations. (in the OT, this term means to sprinkle the blood for a sin offering)
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.
Finishing on Chapter 53
Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For
He (the servant of Chapter 52) shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He
has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were,
our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely H
e has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But
He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the
Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He
was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He
was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For
He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And
they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10
Yet it pleased the Lord to [q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see
His seed, He shall prolong
His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul,
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge
My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because
He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
We may not like this idea of God doing this to himself, as it tears at our Pride and tears at our flesh. But this is what God did. And in doing so he will shut the mouth of all creation for all eternity, as he made a spectacle of Satan and his army
