with your blood you purchased men for God" [5:9]), a song later set to earthly music in Handel's Messiah. And elsewhere in Revelation true believers are identified as being recorded in the "Lamb's book of life."
This powerful image resurfaces often in Revelation, a book of warfare between good and evil. Christ the king is also the Lamb, the one who died for us. His death on the cross, seemingly a great defeat, actually ushered in a decisive victory, for him and for us. Good was not destroyed; it triumphed.
Life Questions: What meaning does the image of Jesus as a slain Lamb have for you? What are your favorite "pictures" or images of Jesus? |
