Dominion --- Isaiah 53; Part 12 and Epilogue

"Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance
And the uttermost parts of the Earth for Thy possession."

Because He endured and suffered the day of His humiliation;
Thou makest Him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands;
Yet the oil and the wine are with Him in His high place:
For sacrifice and intercession are the foundation of His Kingdom.
In everlasting righteousness, will He exercise authority;
And He shall reign as High King and as High Priest forever.

"For He testifieth,'Thou art a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek'."


Epilogue:

Look ye once more at this sorrowful, yet majestic figure,
That rises, strangely blended, before the prophet's eye:
Sinlessness and sorrow; God's approval and God's affliction;
Rejection and rule; death and life; humiliation and dominion.
Listen; Hear the last echos of the prophet's lonely voice,
As it dies in our ear, 'He bore the sins of many';
Then hearken how another voice later takes up the ring,
But instead of pointing ahead, down the centuries,
Points to one at his side and cries, 'Behold the Lamb of God!'
Look heavily at that life; at that death; at that tomb;
At that resurrection, that authority, and that intercession:
And ask thyself, 'Of whom speaketh the prophet?'

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."