Psalm 22:30
30 A seed [zera`] shall serve [`abad] him; it shall be accounted [caphar] to the Lord ['Adonay] for a
generation. [dowr] KJV-Interlinear
30
Posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.
NASB
Jesus is the Lord, the
Christ, the Son of God, the Savior, the promised Messiah of whom most of his
generation rejected, resulting in his execution on the cross.
Jesus, as God, took this opportunity
to take upon himself the sins of humanity and paid the price demanded for sin,
which is death, and obtained the basis for salvation, thus providing redemption
for humanity.
Those who believe in Him,
which is to say also that those who believe that it was His work, that He is
God and man, the unique person of the universe, shall receive the gift of
salvation, which is their deliverance from eternal condemnation in the Lake of Fire.
Those who reject Jesus,
do not receive this salvation, because by rejecting Jesus, they also reject His
work and accomplishment and provision. They do not receive salvation because
they reject it. God offers it freely to
all, and withholds nothing from anyone except those who do not want it.
And so, Jesus hung on the
cross providing for all for humanity, being rejected, humiliated, stripped
naked after having been beaten and nailed to the cross, and ridiculed by nearly
all who were present, gawking at Him.
But there will be a day,
when those who look upon Him will look in worship, in awe, in humble
appreciation for all that He has done.
A seed, ‘zera,’
figuratively a planting, a sowing, a fruit, a singular seed, which here refers
to all believers in Christ. Those who reject Christ which are generally
referred to as unbelievers, will not serve Christ, for obvious reasons.
These then, believers,
will be the ones who will serve Christ forever in heaven.
This seed extends from
Adam to the last believer in the Millennium.
Potentially trillions of people from all of human history. For throughout history there will be billions
of people what will be born alive and live for some time within their
respective generation, but too, there have been and will continue to be people
who will be born alive but will die in infancy or at some other time while not
achieving an age of responsibility, and they are saved automatically. Recall the story of Davids first born son
from Bathsheba, who died, but will be seen again by David in heaven.
And while there are no historical
human statistics for infant mortality, since Adam, the numbers have to have
been huge over the many centuries and millennia since then. A stable world population of only about three
or four-hundred million for the thousand years B.C and the thousand years A.D.
attests to the high mortality rate.
The world did not reach
its first living population of one billion people until 1802, which was only
over a period of 800 years since the end of the first millennium, and then the
second billion mark came in 1927, only 125 years later, then the third billion
mark in 1961 which saw it accelerate after only 34 years and so forth.
See the world population
chart in the online library of charts.
For the first
five-thousand years of human history, and despite very long lifespans in those
first generations from Adam to Noah, the world population did not leap forward
as one might expect. Only in this last
century has it exploded, which by the way is one of the trends mentioned by
Jesus, as defining the nearing the end of the end times.
Our dispensation, from
about 30 A.D. or at the Feast of Pentecost, until the rapture is collectively
called the ‘end times.’
The seven year period
called the Tribulation is called the ‘last days.’ This period begins with the Rapture and ends
with the Second Advent of Christ.
All believers were seen
by God in eternity past when the divine plan was conceived in the mind of God.
This single conception is then the single seed category of believers as opposed
to unbelievers, and is the single generation, upon its conception, even though
all believers are born throughout history over many human generations.
And there is yet another use
of the single generation that may be applied from this verse.
The Jewish race, will
generally reject Christ throughout their history, thus bringing upon themselves,
hardship and atrocity after atrocity, even until the last and final generation
of our Church Age.
But then in that last
generation, which will be all unbelievers when the Rapture occurs, will go into
the Tribulation as unbelievers, but will see the extreme hardships and atrocities
across the entire planet, and that generation will turn to Christ in huge
numbers, unlike any other of the generations before them.
So in contrast to the
generation of the Cross, this final generation will not mock or ridicule or
reject God or Christ, but will turn to Him. And as a result most likely
millions upon millions will be saved, even as they are martyred in the largest
historical numbers ever.
And out of this
generation, will come Jewish believers in Christ who will survive the Tribulation
and enter into the Millennium as Christian/Hebrew believers, and the seed
population for the remainder of the millennial reign of Christ.
