Turn with me now to Revelation
chapter 13. Revelation chapter 13. For this Bible study, I want to show
you what I was going to bring to you last Sunday night when
I lost my voice and I had some men read the scripture references
from this message and I want to go ahead and bring the message
to you because it was such a blessing to me and I hope this will be
truly enjoyable to you. I hope you will really enjoy
seeing this. Revelation 13 verse 8 is the
verse that I'm going to use for a text. And the first part of this is
referring to the adversary. I always point that out when
I read this. We're going to focus on the last line here, but it
says, all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, the
adversary, whose names are not written in the book of life of
the lamb slain, from the foundation of the world. The lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. That means he was always the
lamb slain. That's what it means. Before
God made man and before man sinned, before redemption was ever even
needed, God provided a redeemer. He was always The Lamb slain. And this entire book is concerning
the Lamb slain. The whole thing. If you want
to get to the root of the matter, if you want to cut through all
of the confusion, all of the misunderstanding,
all of the error, all of the debate, people debate and debate
this book. You want to cut through all of
that and get to the heart of the whole book. Here's the subject
matter. Here is the message. This is
the point of the whole book. The Lamb slain. That's the point
of the whole book. This book is not about me. It's
not about you. It's not about doctrines. It's
not about, you know, religious positions. This book is concerning
the Lamb slain. The Lamb slain. Cover to cover. This is the revelation of Jesus
Christ, the Lamb slain. That's what this book, Revelation,
that's how it begins. Revelation 1.1, it says the revelation
of Jesus Christ. And that's what the whole volume
is. The revelation of the Lamb slain. Well, last Sunday night, we observed
the Lord's table, and that was in remembrance of the lamb slain. It's due in remembrance of me. God's provided lamb was our salvation. God's provided lamb was the substitute
sacrifice for all of God's chosen people, not for every person
on this earth. That soul needs to be understood,
not for every person on this earth, but for every soul that
the Father elected to save and placed in the hands and plunged under the blood of
His Lamb. Our Lord declared redemption
through the Lamb, cover to cover. in this book, and what we're
going to do is take notice of that throughout the scripture. Years ago, a man pointed out
six scriptures. He listed six scriptures, and
he could have listed more. This declaration is everywhere,
but he gave six portions of scripture that declare and magnify the
Lamb of God. And I want to show you those
six scriptures. And I want to give you the definition
or the description that was given for each one of them. And I pray
this will be a blessing. All right, this is what was listed.
The first one is titled The Lamb Typified. That was the heading
of this description that was given. The Lamb typified. And
that big word, typified, means set forth in type, given as a
picture. The Lamb pictured. The Lamb typified. All right, turn with me to Genesis
chapter 4. Genesis 4 verse 1 says, Adam
knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain and said, I have
gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother
Abel, and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller
of the ground. And in process of time it came
to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto the Lord, and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of
his flock and of the fat thereof, and the Lord had respect unto
Abel and to his offering. But unto Cain and to his offering
he had not respect, and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance
fell." And we know what happened. Cain slew his brother. The picture of what God would
accept was set forth, it was made known right here. Adam and Eve sinned and God slew
an animal, I can only imagine it was a lamb, and made coats
of skin and covered them. And they passed this down to
their children. They told them the only thing
that God will accept as a sacrifice for sin is a lamb, the blood
of a lamb. Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground. God said, the only thing I will
accept is a lamb. What did Cain do? He brought
of the fruit of the ground. He brought what he had tilled,
what he had planted, what he had watered, what he had picked,
and it was not accepted, none of it. When it comes to our redemption
from our sin and our forgiveness for our sin and our appeasement
of God for our sin, the works of our hands must stay out of
it. You know, this is what Cain thought
in his mind. He has no hands but my hands.
You know, I'm gonna do all this for God. The works of our hands must stay
out of it. Our flesh must go. It has to
go. Our Lord set forth right here,
it is by the blood of the Lamb alone. The Lamb was typified,
set forth in type, set forth in picture. Go with me to Genesis
22 now. I love this portion of scripture
so much. Genesis 22, this is the lamb
prophesied. All right, we had the lamb typified. This is the lamb prophesied.
That means foretold. That's a promise guaranteed to
be fulfilled. That's what prophecy is. A promise
guaranteed to be fulfilled. fulfilled. All right, Genesis
22 verse 1, and it came to pass after these things that God did
tempt Abraham and said unto him, Abraham, and he said, behold,
here I am. And he said, take now thy son,
thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the
land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon
one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose
up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two
of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and claimed the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the
place of which God had told him. Then on the third day, Abraham
lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said
unto his young men, abide ye here with the ass, and I and
the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. And Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son,
and he took the knife in his hand the fire in his hand and
a knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake
unto Abraham his father and said, my father. And he said, here
am I, my son. And he said, behold the fire
and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? We
got fire, we've got wood. We have a knife, we have judgment.
We have judgment for sin, we have punishment for sin. Where is the appeasement? Where
is the lamb? Verse eight, and Abraham said,
my son, God will provide himself a lamb for burnt offering. Isn't that good news? That's
the gospel. God will provide the lamb. God will provide himself
to be the lamb. God will provide His own self. God will. He will. The Lamb of God prophesied a
promise guaranteed to be fulfilled. Verse 8 says, it goes on to say,
So they went both of them together, and they came to the place which
God had told him of. And Abraham built an altar there,
and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid
him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the
Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And
he said, here am I. And he said, lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him. For now I
know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes
and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket
by his horns. And Abraham went and took the
ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son. I always had that envisioned
as, you know, Abraham untying Isaac and getting him off of
that, and I've even told you that before. And throwing that
ram on there, but I don't see it that way anymore. There wasn't
time for that. He laid hold of that ram, threw him on Isaac,
slayed that ram, and the blood ran all over his son. All over
the, I bet you Isaac was covered head to toe in blood. The blood
of a substitute. Verse 14, and Abraham called
the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh. That means the Lord will provide. The Lord will provide. Are you
sure, Abraham? Yes, I am. Now I know, I believe
with all my heart the Lord will provide. From the beginning,
the Lamb was typified, prophesied, and turn with me to Exodus 12. Right here we have the Lamb applied. Typified, prophesied, applied. Exodus 12 verse 1, the Lord spake
unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month
shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first
month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall
take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for in house. And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according
to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall
take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. And the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. and they shall take up the blood
and strike it on the two side post and on the upper door post
of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. You shall put this blood
on the door of your house. Verse 12, he said, for I will
pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and
against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am
the Lord. And the blood shall be to you
for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. He said, when
I see that blood applied to you, I will know that death has already
been to this house. Death has already been here.
Because of sin, death must come to every house. No house is exempt, Egyptian
or Israelite, Jew or Gentile, all have sinned and come short
of my glory. The Lord said, but when I see
the blood of that lamb, I'll know that judgment and justice
has been served here and I'll be satisfied and I'll pass you
by. That blood applied, that'll be
your salvation. That'll be your deliverance. Turn with me now to Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, we have the Lamb typified,
prophesied, applied, and here in Isaiah 53, the Lamb is personified. It was made known that it's not
an animal that God has provided. Up to this point, It was take
a lamb. Everybody needs a lamb. You know,
that's still the message. That's still the message today.
Everybody needs a lamb. Make sure you get a lamb. That
was the message to all of God's people. You need a lamb. How
many lambs do you think were sacrificed throughout thousands
of years? And our Lord made it known it's
not the blood of bulls and goats that puts away sin. it's gonna be the blood of a
man. This lamb, this lamb of God that
has been typified, prophesied and applied, this is the blood
of a man. Isaiah 53 verse one, who hath
believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root
out of dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness,
and when we shall see him, there's no beauty that we should desire
him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from
him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth. He was taken from prison and
from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he
was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression
of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the
wicked and with the rich in his death, because he hath done no
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his
soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he
bear the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
This lamb is a man. This lamb that was typified with
Abel, prophesied with Abraham, applied to the houses of all
of God's people, this lamb is a man. A man is coming. A man. Who is he? Where is he? When will he be? Go with me to
John chapter one. John 1, typified, prophesied, applied,
personified, and right here he was identified. It's going to
be a lamb. God will provide a lamb. That
lamb applied is your salvation. That lamb is actually a man.
Who is it? Identified right here. Verse
14, John 1 verse 14. The word was made flesh and dwelt
among us and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bear witness
of him and cried saying, this was he of whom I spake. He that
cometh after me is preferred before me for he was before me. And of his fullness have all
we received and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God
at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. And this
is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites
from Jerusalem to ask Him, Who art Thou? And He confessed and
denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked
him, what then, art thou Elias? And he said, I'm not. Art thou
that prophet? And he answered, no. Then said
they unto him, who art thou that we may give an answer to them
that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make
straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. And
they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked
him and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that
Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? John answered them,
saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among
you whom you know not. He it is who coming after me
is preferred before me, whose shoes latch it I am not worthy
to unloose. These things were done in Beth-Aborah,
beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. Verse 29 says, The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. There he
is. This is he of whom I said, After
me is coming a man which is preferred before me, for he was before
me. And I knew him not, but that
he should be made manifest to Israel. Therefore am I come baptizing
with water. And John bear record saying,
I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode
upon him. And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize
with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see
the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bear record that
this is the Son of God. This is He. He is the Lamb of
God. Every word in God's book was
talking about Him, John said. Jesus Christ is the one who laid
down His life, gave His blood, saved His people from their sin.
He's the one who promised to do it. He's the one who did it
and is finished. God has accepted His sacrifice. and his people are redeemed in
him. Isn't it so beautiful to see that progression like that?
Through those scriptures, typified, prophesied, applied, personified,
identified, and one more. Go to Revelation 5. This right
here is the Lamb glorified. Magnified and glorified. Verse one says, I saw in the
right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written, within
and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong
angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open
the book and to loose the seals thereof. And no man in heaven
nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book,
neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no man
was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to
look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not,
behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David,
hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals
thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the
midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst
of the elders, stood a lamb, as it had been slain, having
seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God,
sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And
when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps
and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song saying, thou art worthy to take the book
and to open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and
people and nation. And has made us unto our God
kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld
and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne
and the beast and the elders. And the number of them was 10,000
times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud
voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and
riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every creature which is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as
are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying,
blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever. And the
four beasts said, Amen. And the four and 20 elders fell
down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever. All glory and
praise to the Lamb that was slain who has borne all our sins and
cleansed every stain. Hallelujah, thine the glory.
Hallelujah, amen. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is
the Lamb that was slain. That's the theme of this whole
book. That's the theme of heaven. It's gonna be the theme for all
eternity. Worthy is the Lamb, amen.