Tag: Lamb
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A Ram Instead of a Lamb – Genesis 22:13
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. Right when it looks like everything is about to happen, Abraham…
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God Will Provide Himself the Lamb – Genesis 22:7-9
Genesis 22:7-9 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they…
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The Curse Is Gone – Revelation 22:3
Revelation 22:3And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. The fallout of Adam’s bomb in the Garden of Eden is still felt to this day. Genesis 3:17 through 19 tells us what followed man’s rebellion. The ground…
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Made Ready for the Bridegroom – Revelation 19:7
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. This verse opens up beautifully when you read it through the pattern of a Jewish wedding. In that setting, the bride did not initiate the whole process. The father…
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The Lamb Wins – Revelation 17:14
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. This is where the whole thing has been heading. The beast gathers kings. He builds alliances. He stirs…
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Stunned by the Woman, Taught by the Angel – Revelation 17:6-7
Revelation 17:6, 7 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the…
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Riding the Beast – Revelation 17:3
Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. John is carried away into the wilderness, and what he sees is deeply revealing. He sees a woman sitting on…
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The Song on the Other Side – Revelation 15:3
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. There is something beautiful here. Heaven is singing, and the song is both old and new.…
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Not One Missing – Revelation 14:1
Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. What a contrast this is. At the end of chapter 13, men are marked by the beast. In chapter 14, John looks again and…
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At Home in the World, Amazed by the Lamb – Revelation 13:7-8
Revelation 13:7-8 And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. One of the saddest phrases in this passage is the phrase dwell…
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No Place Left to Hide – Revelation 6:15-16
Revelation 6:15-16 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide…