This symbol of the perfect work of Christ is the ground of meeting in Exodus 25:22 : `There I will meet with

thee, and I will commune with thee from above the Mercy Seat'. Fellow-believer, `Let us draw nigh'; none can say

us nay if He bids us welcome. With this beautiful type in mind let us turn to Isaiah fifty three.

In Acts 8:35, we read, `Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him -

Jesus'. Isaiah fifty three is `the same Scripture'. It is a part of repentant Israel's confession when they look upon

Him Whom they pierced, when the veil shall be removed and they shall say, `Surely He hath borne our griefs, and

carried our sorrows'. `All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord

hath laid (margin, made to meet) on Him the iniquity of us all'.

Let us pause and consider this wondrous Meeting Place. The Sufferer is the Son of God; the Hands which

fashioned the Heavens (Heb. 1:10) are nailed to the Accursed Tree; the Brow which is yet to wear `many diadems'

is crowned with the thorns that sprang up in consequence of Adam's sin. Why all this? Was there no other way?

No! The Lord of Glory stepped down from His exalted throne, became a man, a servant, and died under the imputed

guilt which the Lord made to meet on Him. What a tremendous thought is here; how it calls upon us to remember

that we are upon holy ground!

One sin to an infinitely Holy Being must be loathsome; but to think of the combined sin of my lifetime being

made to converge upon His Sacred Head is more than heart can conceive. But the writer is not the only one for

whom the Saviour died. Thousands more can rejoice in Him as the great Sin Bearer for them. But this is not all.

Generation after generation have lived, and sinned and died and for many of each the Saviour's blood was shed.

Here, like Paul at the end of Romans eleven (as he goes on to enumerate the multiplied mercy of God), we get out of

our depth - we can only bow our heads and say, `O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom, and knowledge of

God'.

This is not all, however; there is still a `much more'. At the end of Isaiah 53:12, we read of a second Meeting

Place, linked and founded upon the first one in verse six. `He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the

sin of many, and made intercession (a meeting place) for the transgressors'. The same Hebrew word, paga is used

in Isaiah 53:6 `hath laid on Him', and in Isaiah 53:12 `made intercession'. He was first made a Meeting Place for

transgressions, and then, having put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, He sat down at the Right Hand of the

Majesty on High where He ever liveth to make intercession for us, to Whom we can go at all times by a new and

living way. What a glorious Meeting Place!

But even this does not exhaust the depth, nor scale the height, nor comprehend the love that passeth knowledge.

We, who by faith look back to that solemn Meeting Place of Calvary, look forward in hope to the consummation of

it all, as expressed in the words of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Whether 1 Thessalonians 4 is to be interpreted

of the Church of the Mystery is a question with which we have dealt elsewhere, but one thing we know, that the

Redeemed of all ages and dispensations, whether by Rapture or Resurrection; whether before or after The Great

Tribulation; whether to inherit Heavenly Places, or the Earthly Paradise; they shall all meet the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:17; 1 John 3:1-3; Phil. 3:20,21;

Colossians 3:1-4; Titus 2:13; Revelation 20:4; 22:4.

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The writer of this booklet is the author of many volumes devoted to the exposition of the Scriptures, viewed

from the standpoint of Doctrine, Dispensation and Prophecy.

The following are selected here as having a bearing upon the theme of the present booklet :

The Deity of Christ. The Testimony of the Lord's Prisoner.

Just and the Justifier. Life Through His Name.