5. A
Lamb
This
picturesque name for our Savior is unambiguous. In the Old Testament,
abundant prefigurements explain the meaning of the term as a perfect,
innocent, substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of others. We read
this in the stories of Abraham's offering of Isaac, of the first
Passover and the blood on the doorposts, in the countless mentions of
temple offerings, and in John the Baptist's specific naming of Jesus
as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Then we read
of the life and work and work of Jesus, how He never sinned, how He
helped and served, how He gave His life for others, and how His death
atoned for all the sins the lambs' blood never could. This Lamb
though had a different ending to His sacrifice: He arose from death
and lives eternally, and gives that same gift to those He Justifies.
Genesis
22
Exodus
12
Numbers
6:14
John 1:
36
Hebrews
9: 12, 22
Revelation
14 : 4; 17: 14
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