THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 1:29-34

Mike teaches today. 10/02/21

THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 1:29-34

VERSES: Hebrews 9:6-15; Isaiah 11:2, 42:1, 61:1; Leviticus 17:11

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On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me. And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water. And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth with the Holy Spirit. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

The interview by the Pharisees must have been after Christ’s water baptism by John, seeing before that he testified he knew Him not, having not yet met Christ, but in the interview he said to the Pharisees: “…whom you know not…” (verse 26) And now in verse 29, which is the very next day after that interview, John the Baptist along with presumably his own followers, sees the Lord approaching, which then had to be following Christ’s 40-day wilderness temptation, maybe that very day. And seeing Him, John declares, “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.” What a momentous statement! What an unimaginable but necessary revelation given to Christ’s appointed forerunner. He thereby knew that the Messiah of Israel had not come to raise up an army of Israelites to rid the Land of Roman occupation; but to prevail over sin in the World by shedding His Own Blood in sacrificial death. (Isaiah 53)

He is not the Lamb of man offered unto God BUT “the Lamb of God” offered for man. What is in view is that: what all the lambs of man could not affect, the One Lamb of God does. The ‘sacrificial lamb’ of man offered to God and giving up its life blood for him vicariously had critical significance seen in Biblical history going all the way back to Adam’s sin in the garden. By the blood of a lamb, Adam found remission atonement/covering for his sin, rebirth of his spirit; that assurance of deliverance from eternal death. But the lamb of man (see in Genesis 3:21 where an animal was sacrificed when God “made coats of skins and clothed them”) was not enough to restore the glorious intimacy and fellowship they once had with God in the Garden, seen in Adam’s continued being barred from it by the Cherubim who had flaming swords. This is because the blood of an animal is only able to affect a partial restoration, but the Lamb of God that will destroy the works of the devil (and allow, by His Blood, full restoration) was declared by God in the Garden to come. (Genesis 3:15)

It was the ram/‘lamb’ of man for God, caught in a thicket, that took the place of Abraham’s son being obediently offered to God as a blood sacrifice. His offering brought the blessing of God and the irrevocable promise that it would be his ‘Seed’ that The Lamb of God/The Son of God would come from. (Genesis 22:10-18) Also, the lamb of man to God is seen in the obtaining of the ‘saving’ forgiveness and protection afforded in the blood of the Passover lamb in Egypt, along with the countless lambs sacrificed each year at Passover in Israel for many centuries. The same is true for the daily lambs offered up to God for the sins of Israel. (Exodus 29:38-46) But John declares in contrast that this is the Lamb of God and the Son of God. How should we take this declaration of John the Baptist?

THE DUAL ASPECT OF THE LAMB OF GOD’S ATONEMENT…
The first aspect of the Lamb of God’s Blood Atonement being: the saving gift of grace unto restored eternal life into the spirit of man, who was created as a triad being. (1st Thessalonians 5:23) This first aspect (eternal life/saving of the spirit) was already realized in Israel through the appointed substitutionary Paschal lamb’s blood, thereby His coming to Israel was in the second aspect of the Lamb’s Atonement in God’s Salvation Plan. This had to do with ‘saving the soul’ in fullness of restoration purpose of the ‘saved’ of Israel. That is to say that they were to be enabled to be fully sanctified in developing holiness of character, bringing forth fruit of a nature worthy of a calling higher still than that of their Earthly calling of preeminence. Had the Jews accepted Him as the Lamb of God whose Blood would atone for them fully, they would have been enabled to be sanctified and rule and reign with Christ from the heavens. But this suffering Messiah became the stumbling block to the Jew, so then after.....

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