I nearly “missed” this great Isaiah Verse! It too concerns the “soul suffering” of Jesus on the Cross.

It’s the 10th Verse of Isaiah’s 53 chapter we need to notice …

“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt 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.” Quoting Isaiah 53:10.

The particular “Clause” that draws me is … “When thou shalt make His Soul an Offering for sin.”

It is not the physical pain mentioned here. Though I am sure “bruising” is excruciating.

It is the spiritual grief!

Jesus’ Very “Soul” is being offered for sin!

Something that requires death, one supposes. As do all sin offerings!

This “Offering,” something that incurs the guilt of another!

Something that pays the price for another, no matter how “much.” The innocent dying for the guilty!

Jeus certainly died physically that Day long ago.

But He died spiritually as well!

Need Bible “proof?”

Well, Isaiah 53:9 (“And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth”) uses the noun “death” here in this specific Vese in the “plural” number.

Yes, the Hebrew here … “deaths!”

Again I say … physically and spiritually!

I end each lesson this way … What Jesus bore on the Cross must have been (in His Soul as well as Body) … indescribably painful, torturous. YET IT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE HIS SOUL SUFFERINGS, HIS SPIRITUAL SUFFERINGS OUTWEIGHED EVERYTHING ELSE AT CALVARY .,.. AS JESUS DIED FOR OLD SINNERS!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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