Behold The Lamb

Everybody wants to know about Jesus sooner or later. Everybody's gonna see him face to face, but a lot of people are looking for him right now and they don't know it. And a lot of people are looking for him and they do know it. In fact, you might be at the checkout in the grocery store, in the airport, and he's right there.

His time magazine made a special edition last year. It's all about Jesus. We established last week that he's a real person. a real historical person that's not in dispute among any reasonable people. Even non-believing academics will admit that Jesus really existed and that he did many of the things that the Bible claims that he did. Even an atheistic scholar has to admit that a man named Jesus lived on planet Earth. Last week, we looked at the title Jesus used most about himself, Son of Man. And we saw that not only is he fully God, but he's fully man. Today we're looking at another title that's so appropriate in this Thanksgiving season because as we're celebrating the Thanksgiving meal or the Thanksgiving feast in these days here in America, We're thinking about one of the greatest celebrations and feast in the story of Scripture, and that's the Passover, and

We're seeing Jesus today as the Lamb of God. The whole idea in this text is to understand who Jesus is, but also to ask the essential question that they were asking is I was reading almost the last article in this time edition. Why did Jesus die? And down at the end of the first paragraph or column here, they're getting down at the crux of it. The writer of this article says, why did Christ die? That is not who on Earth killed him, or even exactly how much he suffered. But what was the cosmic reason for his agony? What is its purpose, its divine calculus? How precisely does his death usually refer to in this context as the atonement

Lead to the salvation of humanity? And then he concludes the atonement that's God giving Jesus as a sacrifice for our sin is the centerpiece of Christianity. And it's what distinguishes it or Christianity from all other religions. This is a professor at Durham University in the UK. The atonement is the centerpiece of Christianity and it is what distinguishes Christianity from all other religions.

Well, what a powerful statement. And so to understand the atonement, the sacrifice of God through Christ for the sins of the world is to understand what sets Christianity apart from all the religions that are on planet Earth today. And all of that has its focus in Jesus, the Lamb of God. This article almost gets there to answer the question, why did Jesus die? But we want to hear from Jesus in his own words. And that's what this collection is all about. Jesus spoke according to the King James version of the Bible, the official version of the Bible. Jesus spoke 31,426

Words. recorded in the King James Version of the Bible, so we can let him speak for himself. But interestingly, he didn't explicitly use the term about himself, Lamb of God. Now, he is the Lamb of God, and we're gonna see that very clearly today, but he didn't explicitly use that term. So you're like, well, if we're gonna do a collection called Jesus and His own words, we have picked some titles about Jesus that he actually said the title in his own words. Well, this title is so central. It is the centerpiece of Christianity to know that there was an atoning sacrifice, and that sacrifice was the Lamb of God, that we want to see how Jesus is presented this way, and maybe just a little tip of the hat to the end.

Maybe he did actually say he was the Lamb of God after all. That would be a revolution if that were the case today, given that everyone has said, from history to now, that he didn't explicitly use the title, the Lamb of God. So let's look at what others said about him first and then we'll let Jesus speak for himself. This idea, Lamb of God, comes to us from John and John's Gospel, chapter 1. Now John the Baptist was preparing the way for Jesus. And he's got a ministry of his own baptizing people in the Jordan River. Anybody been to the Jordan River by the way, where he was doing this baptizing two people? Oh, no, three, four people.

Oh, more people, five, six, seven, eight. What is happening? There's a revival that's breaking out at Passion City Church. People have been to the Holy Land. Wow, this is so great. Cumberland, anybody been to the Jordan River? No, not at the Holy Land experience in Florida. I'm talking about the real Jordan River. And John the Baptist is baptizing there, and Jesus now is ready to announce his public ministry, and he appears at the Jordan River. And John the Baptist prophetically speaks about him because he has been sent to prepare the way for him. And when he sees him, this is what he says. The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and he said, look,

I like the translations that say, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. There's your simple answer for why did Jesus die? By the way, we'll peel back some layers on that. But John, when he sees Jesus, his proclamation, the first thing he says about him is not, he's the Son of God. He's the King of kings. He's the Lord of lords. He's the bread of life. He's the great I am. He's the way the truth and the light. He said, behold. the Lamb of God. And this would have set off a trimmer in the mind of the Jewish person who is nearby. Because in the culture and the mindset of the Jewish religion was the Lamb.

All the way back to the Exodus moment, the Lamb was the sacrifice by which the blood was put over the doorpost so that the angel of death passed over every home with the blood on the door. and spared the firstborn of that family as God was leading his people out of Egypt. This was celebrated year after year after year after year. It was like Thanksgiving. It was the Passover meal and the Passover meal from generation to generation to generation retold the story of what happened that night. You can find it in Exodus chapter 12. It says, and then they are to take some of the blood. This is after each family took this perfect spotless lamb without any blemish on it.

They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. On that same night, I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals. And I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. Now this was happening because Pharaoh's heart was like a stone. And even though plague number one came and plague number two came and plague number three came and Moses speaking for God was saying, let my people go. The Pharaoh was like, not gonna happen. His heart was just emblazoned against God. But on this night, judgment was really coming as the angel of death was coming to every household in Egypt, those of the Israelites and those of the Egyptians and everyone else who lived in Egypt.

The blood, verse 13, will be a sign for you on your houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. So a little bit later than Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, go at once and select the animals for your families. and slaughter the Passover Lamb. So already now this Lamb has a name. This Lamb has meaning. This Lamb is connected to what's happening this night. It was a Lamb a few verses before without defect, and now it is a Passover Lamb. Take a bunch of hissup. That's the limbs and the leaves of a tree and dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe.

None of you should go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land, to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and the sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway and he will not permit the destroyer. to enter your houses and strike you down.

Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And he's already telling them something powerful is going to happen here. And it's going to be so powerful that once you are delivered, once you have arrived at the promised land, once you are settled in the place God has prepared for you, you're going to remember this night every year, even there. You're going to be looking back to this moment and observing this same ceremony that you're observing now. And when your children ask you, what does this ceremony mean to you? Tell them it is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord

Who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. When he finished saying this, the people bowed down in worship and they did what the Lord commanded Moses. in Aaron. See, the wages of sin, we talked about this a few weeks ago, Romans 6.23 is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. What happened to Adam and Eve in Eden, when they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of God and Eve, and we talked about this, they died spiritually. And so for their spiritual death, there was going to have to be at some point a payment for that death. And to pay for that death, something was going to have to be alive.

And so we're seeing the beginning of this arc now in the deliverance of God's people. Some sacrifices being made so that they can have peace with God. And in this case, the sacrifice was a Passover lamb. The blood was put over their door, the angel of death, the destroyer came through, and he didn't see, oh, that's a good family. Oh, that's a nice family. Oh, that family's better than the other family. No, he passed over because he saw the blood on the door.

And it wasn't their good works that caused the destroyer to pass over them. It was the blood on the doorpost in above. This is the gospel. sin doesn't make you bad, it makes you dead. Christ didn't come to improve you. He came to bring you from death to life. And that required that someone pay the penalty of death and to pay the penalty of death, somebody had to be alive.

And that's why Jesus is the miracle man, fully God and fully man. Yes, the Son of man, but also the Son of God conceived in the womb of Mary by the Spirit of the living God, born alive.

Leviticus says that the life of the flesh is in the blood, so it's Christ's innocent life and his bloodshed that it's going to bridge the gap between the old and the new. And this is the beauty of what John is trying to help us understand. John is saying, you remember the old system, you remember the Passover, you remember how that lamb was slain. Well, that was then, and this is now, those were lambs from the fields, and this is a lamb from heaven. This was your lamb, this is God's lamb, this is the lamb of God.

And he's connecting now. the Passover of God over the sins of the world to the finished work of Jesus. Some of the New Testament writers now after the death and resurrection of Jesus, they're all helping us see this. Peter says that this way, for you know that it was not with perishable things, such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down from your ancestors. But with the precious blood, there it is, the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world. but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him.

And so your faith and hope are in God. Paul wrote it this way, but God demonstrates his own love for us in this, why we were still sinners Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified, there's our word, made righteous, how by his blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. The innocent living son of God is shedding his blood. We've been justified by his blood. How much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him? Paul writes again, your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough. Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new unleavened batch as you really are.

And then here comes his closing for Christ. Our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. Now, it's in the tradition of the church. It's in the teaching of the early church. Christ is the Passover Lamb. There were Passover Lamb's back in Egypt, but now there's just a Passover Lamb, capital P. A-S-S-O-V-E-R Lam and he is Christ. This is what John was talking about. John understood it and now everyone understands that the system of sacrifice wasn't perfect. The system of sacrifice was pointing.

The whole time. God knew this system isn't perfect, this system is just pointing. That's what the Hebrew writer says when he said, but those sacrifices, the bulls and the goats and the doves and the lambs are an annual reminder of sins because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. The system isn't perfect, the system is pointing, and it's pointing as John understood to Jesus. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And then we see heaven in the revelation. And we see the centerpiece of heaven in Revelation is the Lamb. The Lamb of God is in the story. And then I saw in the right hand of him who sat Revelation five on the throne of scroll with writing on both sides.

And you know the story, no one's worthy to open it, to break the seals, and to open the scroll. But then verse six, then I saw a Lamb. John, who saw the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, now is in heaven seeing the Lamb of God who has taken away the sins of the world. He looked as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne encircled by the four living creatures in the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. By the way, this is maybe a little more core class than preaching Sunday.

But feel free to amen anyway, even though it's core class because we are in the living word of Almighty God. And now we're in heaven. How do we get there? Understanding what's going on forever and in the future. And there's a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes. The seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he, the lamb, went and took the scroll. He, when he had taken it, was worshipped by four living creatures and 24 elders who fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of God's people.

And they sang a new song. We've got 24 elders and four living creatures and they're worshipping who, the Lamb of God, You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain and with your blood, you purchased for God persons from every tribe and every language and every people and every nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priest to serve our God and they will reign on the earth. Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels. That's an understatement right there. Numbering thousands upon thousands. No, not thousands upon thousands. You've got to amp it up a little bit. 10,000 times 10,000. I did the math on my calculator on my iPhone.

And that's 100 million angels. They're all now focused on the Lamb of God. Revelations teaching us don't get tripped up over the number. So it was exactly 100 million angels, or it's the scripture trying to tell us today, you have no way of comprehending how huge the angelic host is that it's focused on the Lamb of God.

Are you focused on the Lamb of God? Are you dialed in to the Lamb of God? Are you aware that in the midst of it is one who looks as though he has been slain because he has been slain? Is your prayer life revolving in any way around the Lamb of God? Is your worship revolving around the Lamb of God? You're giving your service, your life, your passion, your energy, what you're investing in because heaven is very focused on the Lamb of God. They encircled the throne in the living creatures and the elders. And in a loud voice, I would say so 100 million angels is probably pretty loud. They said, worthy is the lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.

And then I heard, first I had 24 elders in four living creatures and there were 100 million angels and now every creature. in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that is in them, we're all now saying to him who sits on the throne and to say it with me, the Lamb. Be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever.

And the four living creatures said, no, no, no, they didn't say amen. They said, Amen! They said, Amen! No, they said, Amen! I want to try one more time. They said, Amen!

With a hundred million angels and a little child. They were all there, worshiping Jesus. It's all about him. It's all about the Lamb of God. They even named the book that contains your name if you put faith in Jesus in it after Him.

All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast. This is in the end times when everybody is going to go after this deceptive beast.

All whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. When we arrive in heaven, our names we will see them not in the Son of God's Book of Life, although he is the Son of God, not in the King of Kings Book of Life, although he is King of Kings, not the Lord of Lords Book of Life, but in the Lamb's

Book of Life, the one who was slain from the creation of the world. In other words, on that Passover night in Egypt, God already had agreed with Jesus and it was set and settled and done

That there would be one last Passover lamb. So what did Jesus say? Let's look at that just for a moment. A, Jesus came to Jerusalem to give his life on a cross, and do you know when he came during Passover? So you can find it in John chapter 12 and when it was time for Passover, he went from Bethany, a short distance to Jerusalem and riding on a donkey, rode into Jerusalem, crowned as the coming king, but he knew that he was coming as an offering, the Lamb of God.

Once he got to Jerusalem, it was time for the Passover meal, the celebration of what had happened back in Egypt, which is still going on to this day by the way. In 1st 7 of Luke 22, then came the day of unleavened bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So of course, he's in the upper room with his disciples on the night before his death when the Passover lamb has to be sacrificed. They ask him where to prepare and he tells them how to prepare and all that gets set and done. And look at verse 14, and when the hour came, Jesus and His apostles reclined at the table. And He said to them, I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God. And after taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, take this and divide it among you. For I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes. And he took the bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying, this is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. in the same way after the supper, he took the cup, saying this cup is the new covenant. In other words, that system that wasn't perfect but was pointing, it has been pointing to me.

So this cup is representing a new agreement with God, a new way with God, a new deal, if you will, with God. And the covenant and the new agreement are in my blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. I'm an innocent man coming to give my life for the guilty. been tempted in every way like you, because I'm son of man, but I'm without San able to give my life as a payment in death.

Jesus couldn't give his life for you if he didn't have a life, and he only had a life because he was innocent and perfect, and the blood that would be shed was pure and spotless. Not just on the outside, like the Lamb in Egypt, but on the inside, he was pure. and spotless. My blood, which is poured out for you, Matthew says of that verse, then he took the cup and we give him thanks. He gave it to them saying, drink from it all of you. This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many. Now he's going to say it plainly for the forgiveness of sins. How do you get forgiven by being good?

No. By having the blood of the Lamb of God over the doorpost of your life, by putting your faith in the finished work of Jesus and believing that the Passover Lamb has come. This is how your sins are forgiven. It is not by praying a prayer, raising your hand or attending a church or trying to do good or being better than the next person is by having the blood of the Lamb of God over the door post of your life.

He says, I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on. In other words, this is the last Passover people. That's what he's trying to tell us followers. This is the last time we're doing this. We've done it for centuries, but this is the last

Sacrifice. I'm not going to drink from the fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you and my father's kingdom. You know, we're going to a feast. We're not going to a harp recital, no knock on the harpist that are in the house today. We're going to a feast. We're going to the wedding feast of the Lamb. We're going to a celebration. We're going to a party. We're going to a spread. We're going to something that's going to blow your mind. No eye has seen and no influencer has even come close to setting a table like the table that God Almighty is setting for you right now.

We are going to a feast and we are going to there celebrate again and drink the wine of heaven whatever that's like and when we drink the wine of heaven he's going to say that drink we had that night is the drink that gets us all around this table on this night and let's celebrate the wedding feast of the Lamb of God. We are all going to have our gaze fixed on him in that moment. All of eternity is going to be focused on Jesus, the Lamb of God.

In 1899, reading this verse, Luke 22, verse 20, A man named Lewis Kloppsch, who was the editor of Christian Herald, was struck by this idea of the blood of Christ. And he said to his mentor, what do you think of the idea if we printed all the words of Jesus in the Bible in red?

And his mentor said, no law against it. It doesn't seem like it would hurt. might even help. Aren't you glad His men toward and say, oh no, we're not doing that? Because it is so powerful to open these pages. In 1899, the very first New Testament with Jesus' words in red was printed. In 1901, all of Jesus' words in red, which are throughout scripture, not just in the gospels, were printed in red, for the very first time. And three of those words that are in your Bible in red are found in John 19 and Jesus is on the cross.

Notice this, a jar of wine vinegar was there so they soaked a sponge in it and put the sponge, hello, on a stalk of the what? The hisset plant. What did they dip into the pale in Egypt? the his up plant. What did they use to put the blood over the door? The his up plant. And now there's a his up plant lifting up

Wine vinegar to Jesus lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said three words, one Greek word.

It is finished with that. He bowed his head. and gave up his spirit. The Lamb of God is the last Lamb.

I was reading this quote from Super Bowl in 1972 by this Dallas Cowboys player who was playing in the game. I think that was the last time the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl. 1972. Okay, it

Wasn't that long ago, but it was close to being that long ago. He was asked, how does it feel to be playing in the ultimate game? I loved his answer. He said, if it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?

Jesus, when he said it is finished, was saying, this is the ultimate. sacrifice. There will not be a sacrifice acceptable to God next year.

This is what we were reading in that glorious comma. Can we just look at maybe two more texts together? He got it in you. Let's read this one together. Let's just read down maybe, well, let's just read a little bit together. Let's all read every location. Can you see it? For all have sinned and let's read it together, that'd be amazing. For all have sinned and false short of the glory of God, comma, you have to add the comma. Let's try again. For all have sinned and false short of the glory of God, comma. and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of His blood to be received by

Faith. Let's stop there. The atoning sacrifice. Remember when we were reading back, even time got that part. The centerpiece of our Christian faith is the atonement, the atoning sacrifice. What is that? That is what makes it possible for people who are far from God to come to know God. Atonement is the sacrifice that covers all the sin, but it also, I learned it this way, is at one mint. Now God and us, can be one. No, we don't become God, but we become one with God, the children of God, born of God, in relationship with God, right with God, friends of God, walking with God, future with God, how by the at-one-met sacrifice of Jesus Christ that happened by the shedding of

His blood. People have seen others come with their sacrifice. You know, that story where Jesus turned over the tables into temple. That was all about the sacrifice. It was about people coming to Jerusalem for the festival from afar away place. Jews lived all over the world at this time. Some would come from Africa, some would come from Asia Minor, some would come from way off in Asia. They'd make the journey all the way to Jerusalem. And when they got there, they wanted for their family to make a sacrifice at the temple. Poor ones would buy a bird. Some with a little more money on hand would buy a bigger bird, a dove, or a

Goat. You're really flush. You could get a really beautiful lamb from Bethlehem's fields. But you'd have to change your money to do it, because you came from over there. And so the guys, they saw a great opportunity. You're trying to get right with God. Ha! You have to get a bird.

And you got to change your money. And we're taking 37% as an exchange fee on the price of your bird.

When Jesus came in there and he was furious, he just started turning tables over.

Why was he so furious because he was coming to be the gift from God into every people, tribe, language, and tongue. And he wasn't charging an exchange fee to anybody.

The gift was free and full. And so people coming with lambs wasn't rare. Jacob, his family here, they're coming with a lamb. Nathaniel and his family here, they're coming with a lamb.

Mary, she's coming. She's got a lamb. She's got Sharon one with the neighbors. Levi's got a lamb. He's coming. It was not rare for people to see people coming with lambs. But oh my gosh, can you imagine what it was like to see God coming with the last lamb?

Not Levi's Lamb, the Lamb of God. Not I just bought it, Lamb. Not we've been saving up

The Lamb of God. Decided before you were ever born, before you ever did one thing or one terrible thing or one good thing. Already decided this is the last Lamb of God. And I'm telling you, the blood of that Lamb, spotless and pure, is still speaking today. It is still speaking today to whoever wants to put their face in the finished work of Jesus, the blood of Christ is still speaking.

We're heading into communion right now as a house. was thinking about being on the gracing glory tour. I don't know if this will come across or not, but there was a point in the night where Kerry would sing Revelation song. And at the end of that song, before they, with Christian and Passion, would lead into he who is to come, text from Revelation would just come up on the screen and big letters, like letters this big across the screen, as wide as the stage. And it was just the beautiful story of Jesus in heaven and the promise of who he is and what the future is like in him. And a lot of the text is white because it's John describing what he's seeing in heaven, but a lot of the text is read because their verses that are quoting Jesus in Revelation.

And every night, all of, I'd be side stage and the guys on stage, everybody would just be looking at the screen while the revelation texts were rolling every night and people are praising God and shouting out loud and lifting their hands, the crowds shouting out loud. And it's such a beautiful, powerful moment of people. They're like, we're just shouting for the word of God. We're just praising God for His truth in this future that we have.

In one night in our prayer circle, Cody Karn said, you know what, every night I've been looking at the screen, but last night I looked at the people.

And when the white text came, because all the lights had come down, it was just white shining on the people.

And then when Jesus' words came, red washed over the whole room of people. And the red made them white again as the white text. He said it was the blood of Jesus coming through the

Screen. I don't know if this is powerful to see it, but I'd kind of like to see it one more time. Can we see

That? This is from God. You see it. You see it. I never looked only at the screen after that night. I always looked at the screen and then I looked at the people. And I looked at the screen and I looked at the people.

His blood is still speaking. We're not talking about Egypt. We're not even talking about the upper room.

We're not only talking about the cross, we're talking about the fact that his love is still reaching and his blood is still speaking. And to every person who has claimed Christ as the Lord and Savior of their life, who has taken hold of the blood of the innocent Lamb of God, put it over the doorpost of your life and who you are. not only do you know that the destroyer when he comes and he will come, is going to pass over you, not because you were a good person, not because you tried your best, not because you brought a lamb that looked amazing, but because the blood of Jesus is over the door post of your life.

It is not about our performance, it is about the perfection of the perfect Passover, Lamb of God, and if you have put your faith in Jesus as the Lord and savior of your life, the angel of death will pass over you. And you will have eternity with God.

But if there is no blood of the Lamb over your door, that destroy it will come. And he will take you away from the God who created you for himself, forever. Do you know Jesus?

And are you under the blood? If not, you're just under wrath. that you could be under the blood.

That blood is speaking today and it's saying, whosoever will may come. and drink freely from the river of life. That blood is still speaking today. It says, if you put your faith in Jesus, you are free. You are forgiven. You are justified. You are righteous. You are made new. You are a son or a daughter on a way to a banquet that you can't even imagine right now.

So, realign your heart with God as we come around this table today. Reorder your priorities in life as we come around this table today. Let gratitude well up and you all over again as we come to this table today but let the blood of Christ speak to you today. You are accepted and not rejected.

You are loved and not hated. You are chosen and not abandoned. You are made clean. In Christ, you are made righteous, justified by the blood of the Lamb. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. We love you. You know, just before we come to this table, I almost forgot everybody scrambling. The one title Jesus never explicitly used. Maybe just think about it. Revelation 19, then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder shouting, hallelujah, for the Lord Almighty reigns, let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory, for the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear. Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God's holy people. And then the angel said to me, write this,

Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. And then he added the angel, these are

The true words of God. I went, hmm. God said that. God said, blessed are those who were invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. God said that. Amen? Who is God? The Father. Who is God? The Son. Who is God, the Spirit, and all through revelation, the beginning of our story, it's the we of our triune God. So I'm just going to say the triune God, Father, Son and Spirit, all said blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. So he might not have used a term, Lamb of God, but he certainly knew the assignment was Lamb of God. He might not have used a title explicitly, Lamb of God, but when it came to the end of it all, he said, blessed, if you're invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.