"Awake, Oh sword, against My shepherd, and against the man
That is My fellow, sayeth the Lord of Hosts: smite the shepherd,"
The mystery of Messiah interprets the types and shadows of the law;
That sacrificial system bore witness to the needs of men's souls,
And prophesied of One in whom these would be met and satisfied.
He is sacrifice; yet, in the divine paradigm, He is priest also;
His stroke slaying the offering; ....... His soul being the offering;
And He both offers and receives in concurrance with Divine will.
Yet the distinctive essence of His sacrifice is attained only
In prayerful contemplation of the cleansing power flowing from it;
The pleasure taken by the Lord in bruising Him is a mystery,
Only until we partake of the bounty revealed in His redemptive act.
"His seed also shall I make to endure forever, and His throne,
As the days of Heaven."
Death hinders not the produce of His seed; but is the cause for it,
By His quickening will He procure unto Himself a people;
For a seed and a remnant shall believe on and serve Him,
And the Lord shall account them unto Him for a generation.
Of the increase of His consolation there shall be no ending;
He asked only life of Thee, and Thou gavest it to Him,
His dominion is of everlasting and it shall not pass,
And His Kingdom is ageless, neither shall it be destroyed.
In Him, at Thy pleasure, are mercy and truth united,
And through Him, have righteousness and peace embraced.
"Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, In whom
My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him:
He shall bring forth judgment to the gentiles."
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