800 Years before Jesus laid down His life to be broken for our sins and rise from the dead triumphant, Isaiah gave witness to the plan and purpose of the Lord, High and Lifted Up, Seated Upon His Throne…
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53:10–11
Isaiah foretold of the Risen Christ, Who will see all that His anguish and suffering accomplished. He will make multitudes righteous because He will bear all their sins. Christ the Servant will die for the sins of others, but He shall not remain in death. And sinners need not remain in their sins any longer than he shall remain entombed! No, after His suffering, even after His death, He shall live and make alive and free and righteous those, who have sinned!
Yet, the resurrection of Jesus did not happen for our sake alone. It was for his sake! He shall see and receive the fruit of His suffering. His days are cut short and yet in the resurrection they are prolonged and with His own eyes, He now beholds a great assembly of people from every race and tribe and language and culture who have looked upon Him and believed. For joy in this satisfying view of the landscape of a redeemed humanity, He endured the cross to save, to redeem, to heal, and to make whole.
Come, let us reason together. Though our sins be scarlet, they will be as white as snow. He is not only mighty to save. He delights to save. He lives to make the broken whole and the filthy clean!