Not by dying, not by bleeding and not by suffering but by continuing to offer up Himself as the firstborn and as the unblemished lamb, as the perpetual, timeless, everlasting sacrifice of praise to the Father.Īnd what do the people do? They rejoice and they break out into a song. Why not clean up the body? Why not wipe away the wounds? Why continue resembling a lamb? Because He's continuing the Passover offerings, the sacrifice.
He still looks as though He had been slain. But here in heaven on the throne of glory, after His crucifixion, Hs resurrection, His ascension, His enthronement, He still looks like a lamb. He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah and He is the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world, as it said elsewhere in Revelation. Jesus Christ is the son of David and the king of the new and heavenly Jerusalem. "I turned and I saw a lamb standing, looking as though it had been slain." You'd think so, a lion and a king are the words used to describe it. You look and John turns to look and what does he see in verse 6, " And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw," what? Aslan, the lion? No. The Lion of the tribe of Judah! You turn. Lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, he has conquered so that he can open the scroll and seven seals.'" You could almost feel the hallelujah rising up from within your soul. "Then one of the elders said to me, 'Weep not. "And I wept much, but no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it," because this scroll would consummate and fulfill the promises of the Old Testament. Most likely it's a reference to a covenant document, the New Covenant document that nobody is worthy to break open. In 5, verse 2, "A strong angel proclaimed with a loud voice, 'Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?' And no one in heaven and on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it." What is the scroll? The word is biblion. In Revelation 5, there is a scroll with seven seals that nobody can break open and everybody is really upset.
Let's see how this relates to the Eucharist in Scripture.įirst, take a look at Revelation 5. One of the most important ways that the Old Covenant foreshadows the New is in its use of the image of the sacrificial lamb.
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