The bee., 1912-12-13
PORTRAYING THE
LAMB OF GOD
The Savior as the Scriptures
Have Revealed Him to the
Eyes of His Followers.

VI the race, was saved Dy ldmD,
Abraham saying, MY son, God will
provide himself a lamb" The place
of the sacrifice was named Jehovah
Jireh-the Lord will provide"
Isaiah tells US that Christ was
brought as lamb to the slaughter.
The. Jews understood better than we
do what John the Baptist meant when
he introduced Jesus, exclaiming, BE
hold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sins of the world" All Is
rael knew that, for fifteen hundred
years every morning at nine o'clock,
and every afternoon at three o'clock.
lamb had been sacrificed on the al
tar of the temple, for the sins of the
people, and now that the Great Mes
siah had come to be sacrificed once
for all. he was most truly called "The
Lamb Of God," who offered him
self without spot or blemish for the
sins of mankind
Paul said. For even Christ, our
Passover, is sacrificed for u.s." mean
ing that the pascal lamb was a type
Of Jesus. The apostle John, who was
the only one who recorded the beauti-
full words Behold the Lamb of God"
is most assailed by the skeptics, chief
ly because his entire gospel makes
prominent the deity of Christ and the
efficacy of the blood of the Lamb of
Calvary
All believers in Christ delight in
Johns gospel. not only on account of
its simplicity and its matchless por-
trayal of the Savior, but because John.
the beloved disciple. was the only one
SO near to Jesus that he leaned on his
bosom at the last supper; the only
one of the twelve who watched with
Christ In his crucifixion agony, who
heard his dying words, receiving his
tender request to care for the mother
OF Jesus. John was the only apostle
who was last at the cross and first
at the sepulchre, the only one to
whom Jesus appeared after his as
cension. who. surviving all the other
apostles, was favored with a vision
Of the glories of tie eternal world
before his translation.
Not only In the gospel of John, but
in his epistles, and In the Book Of
Revelations, Jesus is pictured as the
Divine Lamb of God. whose precious
blood cleanses from all sin. After
John, on the isle of Patmos, heard
once more the voice of his blessed
Master, saying, II am he that liveth
and was dead. and behold am alive
forever more. Write what the Spirit
sayeth TO the churches" John looked,
and beheld. and 10, "in the midst
of the throne stood lamb, as 1t
had been slain. and he came and
took the book, and the elders fell
down before the Lamb. and sung
new song. saying. Thou art worthy
to take the book and to open the seals
thereof; for thou vast slain and hath
redeemed us to God, by thy blood out
of every kindred and tongue and ma
tion."
John Bunyan said that the above
passages first convinced him Of the
deity OF Christ. Well they might,
for the Lamb OF God is the only one
In heaven or In earth found worthy
to open the book of reward and pun
ishment, worthy to become The en-
throned Judge Of tie universe. None
but the Creator and Redeemer OF men
could be thus described. Christ also
has opened the book we call the Bible,
sending messages to the millions of
earth, charging his apostles to pro-
claim his saving power. His heavenly
home, rewards and retributions to
men.
The Lamb of God attained his ex-
alted throne through sacrifice, and his
followers enter the holiest place
through his blood, having washed
their robes and made them white In
the blood of the Lamb. We are told
that John saw no temple therein; for
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are the temple of 1t. The Toly Trim
ity makes every place worshipful.
"The city had no need of the sun, for
the glory Of God did enlighten 1t and
the Lamb is the light thereof" John
found true the words of his Lord
when he said, q am the light of the
world" as well as the declaration, Il
am the bread Of life," for the Lamb,
which IS in the midst of the throne,
shall feed them"
The Lamb of God thus becomes a
most familiar phrase in the last book
of the Bible and is identical every.
where with Almighty God. For it is
the throne of God and of the Lamb.
not the throne of God and saint. a
martyr or an archangel.
Jesus is the Lamb that died. The
marks Of redemption are upon him
and will be the badge of his glory
through eternity. HE is clothed In
vesture dipped in blood" He is the
great Conqueror; he has met all the
enemies who made war with the
Lamb. and the Lamb oyercame them.
His church has been going forth, con-
quering and to conquer; "and they
who overcame by the blood Of the
Lamb" have Joined the armies OF the
skies under the reign of their al
mighty King. "On his head are many