As we come now to a new week in our Names of God series, we come to the name "The Lamb of God", which points to the fact that Jesus is the sacrifice for sin. As John says in our passage for today, He took away the sins of the world.
Perhaps you know that Jesus is our substitutionary atoning sacrifice and died on our behalf so that we might be forgiven of our sins, but perhaps you don't understand this "lamb of God" reference. Maybe it's new to you or maybe it's a term you haven't heard in a long while or don't remember the implications of it. Whatever the case may be, it is worth revisiting!
This name of Jesus harkens us all the way back to the Old Testament times and points to Jesus' being the Messiah, the promised One. In the book of Exodus, we read of when God's people, the Israelites, were slaves in Egypt. The Pharaoh of the time was a pagan ruler who hated both God and His people. To make a long story short, in an effort to judge the Pharaoh for repeatedly refusing to let His people go, God sent down a series of ten plagues upon the people of Egypt.
The final and worst of the plagues was the death of every firstborn son in Egypt. In His grace, God spared the firstborn children of the Israelites as long as they had the blood of the Passover lamb painted on the doorpost of their dwellingplaces.
This passover lamb and its blood were the symbol of the Christ Who would one day come and shed His own blood as a sacrifice for sins once and for all. It is this lamb of God, Jesus, Who is our sacrificial atonement, our Messiah, our Savior.
Glory be to the lamb of God!
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