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“He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living” (Isaiah 53:8).
“When Thou [God the Father] shalt make His [the Lord Jesus’] soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days” (Isaiah 53:10).
If you have read Isaiah 53 before, perhaps you have wondered what the expression “declare His generation” means, in verse 8. The Roman governor Pilate knew the Lord Jesus was innocent but gave in to the demands of the Jewish leaders and gave orders to crucify Him. In a natural sense, this would mean that the Lord Jesus would never have any children. In many parts of the world, and especially in Eastern countries, it is considered a shame and a disgrace to die without having any children.
But God had other plans, if we may say so reverently. It is true that the Lord Jesus never had any natural children, but how many spiritual children came from His work on the cross! Millions of people will be the children of God, and will be in heaven, because they have believed on the Lord Jesus. That is what it means in verse 10, when it says, “He shall see His seed.” His seed refers to His children, and although He was cut off as a man in this world, yet “He shall prolong His days.” Man thought he had gotten rid of the Lord Jesus, but in resurrection there was to be tremendous blessing.
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