Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin
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Christ in Future Glory
Lamb of God
The majestic presence of the eternal Son of God fills the last book of the Bible with the glimpse it gives us of His glory throughout the eternal future, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever; one with the Father and with the Holy Spirit. “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” “The Lamb is all the glory of Immanuel’s Land.”
Revelation 13:8 takes us back to the earliest ages: “The Lamb slain (in the purpose of God) from the foundation of the world.”
Revelation 5:6. John’s vision of the future shows us till all eternity “a Lamb as it had been slain.”
Between these two records lies the progressive teaching of the whole Bible with regard to the Lamb of God. Abel’s lamb; Abraham’s words, “God will provide Himself a Lamb,” prefigured in the sacrifice of his beloved son; the ram caught in the thicket, sacrificed in his stead. The Passover Lamb; the two goats on the day of the Atonement. The Lamb of Isaiah 53 is seen to prefigure a person, the coming Messiah. The words of John the Baptist, recorded by this same John in his Gospel: “Behold the Lamb of God, which beareth away the sin of the world!” God’s eternal purpose for our salvation is seen behind all these Scriptures. “It is this book which contains the title of ‘Lamb’ no less than twenty-six times, emphasizing thereby the increasing value of the sacrificial nature of Christ in the last dark times.”*
Revelation 5:6. The Lamb is one with the Lion of the tribe of Judah. John looked up, expecting to see a Lion, and he saw a Lamb as it had been slain. The same thought is brought out in that remarkable expression “the wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:16). In connection with this we may note that the strongest words,
*The Spiritual Grasp of the Epistles. Rev. Chas. Fox.
