Meaning of LAMB

The lamb is a symbol of humble submission, and when selected for sacrifice it had to be without blemish: a very fitting type of the Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God.

He, the Humble and Holy "was led like a lamb to the slaughter," and was proclaimed by John as "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world"; and again as "the Lamb of God," as the object of the soul's contemplation (John 1:29, 36).

In John's heavenly vision, the Lord Jesus is seen as a Lamb "as slain," to whom universal worship is given.

The special character that goes with the title of Lamb in Revelation is that of suffering, the One who was rejected on earth, although seen in the midst of the throne in heaven.

He who suffered is vindicated there, and finally possesses his wife, the new Jerusalem, where the throne of God and the Lamb is established.

He will always bear the character of God's Chosen One, "who takes away the sin of the world" on the basis of the sacrifice of Himself (Rev. 5:6-13; 6:1, 16; 7:9-17; 12:11 ; 14:1-10; 15:3; 17:14; 19:7, 9; 21:9-27; 22:1, 3).

In all the passages of Revelation the term used is "arnion," the diminutive of "arnos," "a lamb," meaning "a young lamb." It is the same word that the Lord used when addressing Peter in Jn. 21:15: "Feed my lambs," applied to the Lord's young disciples.