“Where is the lamb?” Genesis chapter 22 verse 7.
Our reading yesterday from Exodus chapter 22 told the moving story of Abraham with his son Isaac as they obeyed the call of God – read the chapter again.
Isaac knew there was to be a sacrifice but something was missing so he asked “My father! … Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” The lamb was missing. God’s purpose was blessing through sacrifice as that dealt with sin and failure. But where was the lamb? Isaac was soon to find out.
Exodus chapter 22 speaks very typically of the wonderful provision that God was to make for the sin of the whole world. Rather than deal with us in judgment, God would deal with us in mercy.
- Christ was to be the Lamb – it was foreordained, 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 18-2:
“You were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of A LAMB without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.”
- Christ is the Lamb – it was declared in His lifetime by John the Baptist, John chapter 1
verse 29: “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! THE LAMB OF GOD who takes away the sin of the world!
- Christ will be eternally remembered as the Lamb, Revelation chapter 5 verse 13:
“ And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honour and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to THE LAMB, forever and ever!”
Praise God today for the LAMB OF GOD.