Mary Had A Little Lamb...

The Lamb in Scripture...

"And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and
laid it upon Isaac his son."
"...Isaac asked his father,...where is the Lamb for a burnt offering?"
"And Abraham said, My Son, GOD will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering..."
Genesis 22:6-13
This is a prefigurement of the "Lamb of GOD", Jesus Christ. The wood
which was laid upon Isaac prefigures the Cross laid upon Jesus.
GOD did provide a ram in verse 13 for a burnt offering.
"And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a ram caught in
a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered
him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son."
The horns of the ram caught in the thicket represent the Crown of Thorns.
GOD saved the son of Abraham, but He would not save His own Son.
Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and procure lambs for your families,
and slaughter them as Passover victims. Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, sprinkle it on the lintel and the two doorposts with this blood...For the Lord will go by, striking down the Egyptians. Seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts,
the Lord will pass over the door and not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you down."
Exodus 12:21-23
The blood of the Lamb saved GOD's chosen people.
Later, the blood of the Lamb will save the people who have chosen GOD.

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, "Behold the
Lamb of GOD, who takes away the sins of the world."
John 1:29
And looking upon Jesus as He walked by, he said,
"Behold the Lamb of GOD."
John the Baptist said this to the first two disciples of Christ, Andrew and John.
John 1:35-39
"He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before His shearer, and He shall not open His mouth."
Isaiah 53:7, Acts 8:32
"And bearing the cross for himself (Isaac, remember?) He went forth to
the place called the Skull, in Hebrew Golgotha."
John 19:17
"Then they crucified Him."
Mark 15:24
GOD did not save His own Son.

"...but one of the soldiers opened His side with a lance,
and immediately there came out blood and water."
John 19:34
The blood of the Lamb that redeemed the world.
"You were not redeemed with corruptible things...but with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot."
1 Peter 1:18-19
The blood of the Lamb redeemed us all.
"And I saw, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as if slain..."
Revelation 5:6
"After this I saw a great multitude which no man could number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes, and with palms in their hands."
Revelation 7:9
Written by Bob Stanley, August 13, 1998
Updated January 9, 2003

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