A lamb is one of the gentlest creatures on Earth. It is no wonder why the lamb would symbolize peacefulness.
It also makes sense that the Prince of Peace would be called the Lamb of God by John the Baptist.
John knew that Christ was not like the other fellows that had come before him who boasted to be the Messiah, the ones who had led bloody revolts in attempts to secure their self-proclaimed right to the throne of David.
No, Christ was meek, humble, gentle—he demonstrated the true nature of God.
Besides being a symbol of peace, the unblemished lamb also represented the perfect sacrificial gift to sprinkle its blood upon the altar of the temple in Jerusalem.
Because of the Laws of Moses, they firmly believed that God required blood to remit sins.
It is no wonder that Paul would introduce Jesus as an unblemished lamb offered up by God once and for all to cover the “sins” of wicked man because of the fall of Adam.
Paul was a Pharisee who had been schooled in Jewish Law under the teachings of Gamaliel, the top law professor of Jerusalem. Paul had been studying for years prior to the day that he was blinded on the road to Damascus.
So, it’s logical why Paul would introduce the concept that Christ was a sacrifice for our sins.
However, Paul is not the Master.
Christ is, and what does Yeshua have to say about being used by God as a sacrificial lamb?
The answer to this question can be found in a parable told by Christ to the Chief Priest and elders while he was teaching in the temple (Matthew 21:33-41). He said…
There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, hedged it round about, digged a winepress in it, built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country.
When the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruit of it.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Again, he sent other servants more than the first, and they did likewise.
But last of all he sent unto him his son, saying, they will reverence my son.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir; come let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
And, they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
When the Lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
In this parable, Yeshua was referring to himself as the son. He knew who he was, one of David’s very own offspring that was prophesied by Nathan to be so close to God that he would call God a father, and God would call him a son (1 Chronicles 17 of the Hebrew Bible).
At the end of the parable, Christ foretells his brutal demise at the hands of the religious leaders, and he says, that they cast him out of the vineyard and slew him.
The word, “slew,” that Christ uses, is past tense for slay which means to violently murder.
Afterwards, the Chief Priest and elders answered Christ’s question correctly when they said that the Lord of the vineyard would return and miserably destroy those wicked men who slew the son.
It is clear by this parable that there was no planning on the part of God to coordinate efforts with the husbandmen to kill his son and use him for a sacrifice in God’s temple to benefit all mankind.
No, Christ was murdered by wicked men who loved their religion more than the true and living God of which Christ portrayed.
And, God is beyond angry that He has been accused of coordinating such a wicked event.
Another place that the word slay occurs pertaining to the Lamb of God, is found in the fifth chapter of Revelation.
And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain.
Just like the son in the vineyard, the Lamb was violently murdered, and in this scene, the Lamb is still in the same condition as the day that he was crucified.
After this, the Lamb is proclaimed as the only one found worthy to open the seals of God’s judgment to be poured out upon the wicked ones who love the evil spirit of religion, the murderers.
If Christ was a sacrificial lamb, he would have been treated gently. There was a special class of men who were responsible for slaughtering the sacrificial animals. The animals were not slain.
These men were called Shochets and they would sharpen their blades to such a degree that there was not even one tiny nick in the metal, so the animal would not feel pain during the slicing of its throat.
They were very gentle with the sacrificial animals.
Christ, on the other hand was treated the opposite. He was barbarically bludgeoned, mocked, whipped, and tortured to death.
It is this heinous death that Christians have been taught by their leaders to celebrate, and it all began with a converted Pharisee named Paul who had no business calling himself an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ when he did not uphold the teachings of the Master.
I’m here to tell you that you can only wash your garment white when you realize the truth about the blood of Christ.
It was never a sacrifice. Christ’s blood was spilled by wicked men who clearly showed us who the enemy is, the spirit of religion.
It is that same spirit that the Christian Church has fornicated with for the past two thousand years. The Book of Revelation refers to her as the Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.
In the eighth chapter of the Gospel of John, Yeshua exposes the exact source of this spirit when he addresses the religious leaders,
You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And, because I tell you the truth, you don’t believe me.