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FAQ # 179

QUESTION  179 :  Why then is the term lamb of God used for Jesus, if Jesus is God?

For the same reason the term “right hand of God” is used. If Jesus is the lamb, the father is also the lamb; being that they are the self same person.

Like the term “right hand,” the term ‘lamb of God’ represents another role of Jesus or in essence another way of describing the role of being the right hand of God or becoming the author of salvation.

Let us actually read what John the revelator saw,

“And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beast, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes” (Rev 5:6).

This description doesn’t fit those of a man or even a lamb. Does a man or human have seven horns and seven eyes? No.

The lamb is not meant to be taken in a literal sense. However, for we to understand the mystery, and sacrifice God made for us, he has to use things we as humans are familiar with. This verse made it clear,

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20).

Hence, the term lamb of God is used to demonstrate another role of God; that is, Jesus Christ “reconciling the world unto himself” (2 Cor 5:19). Not anyone else, but himself. God even confirms this by prophesying, “Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me);” “a body hast thou prepared me” (Heb 10:7 & 5).

One might even ask, why did God come in the form of Jesus Christ (Lamb)?

Love. And the following scripture not only demonstrate this love, but also shows that God did put on flesh:

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood [humans], He also himself likewise took part of the same [become human], that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Rev 14:12).

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