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| A '''lamb''' is a kosher animal known for its wool, its passive nature, and its ability to follow. The lamb and the ram were common sacrifice animals in the Old Testament. [[Jehovah Jireh]] provided a ram for Abraham to sacrifice (instead of his son Isaac), and Moses told the Hebrews in Egypt to slay a lamb, cover their doorposts with its blood, and eat every part of the lamb before sunrise - or every firstborn would face the Angel of Death. | | A '''lamb''' is a kosher animal known for its wool, its passive nature, and its ability to follow. The lamb and the ram were common sacrifice animals in the Old Testament. [[Jehovah|Jehovah Jireh]] provided a ram for Abraham to sacrifice (instead of his son Isaac), and Moses told the Hebrews in Egypt to slay a lamb, cover their doorposts with its blood, and eat every part of the lamb before sunrise - or every firstborn would face the Angel of Death. |
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| Isaiah prophecied that the [[Messiah]] would be led as a ''"lamb to the slaughter"'', and John the Baptist called Jesus the ''"Lamb of God"''. | | Isaiah prophecied that the [[Messiah]] would be led as a ''"lamb to the slaughter"'', and John the Baptist called Jesus the ''"Lamb of God"''. |
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| ==Commentary by William Branham==
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| ===The Washing of the Sacrifice===
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| :''John looked up. Now, what is he? The prophet. And here is the Word; there comes the Word coming right straight to the prophet, right to the water. John said, "Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. There He is; that's Him." Jesus never spoke a word, walked right out into the water. And I can see there, standing in that water (Think of a drama.), two of the greatest that ever struck the earth: God the Word, and His prophet.
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| :''Notice. The Word come to the prophet in this dispensation of grace in the water. Uh-huh. I thought you'd catch it. Uh-huh. In the water, the first revelation of the Word was in the water.''
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| ::Sermon: On the wings of a dove, Shreveport, LA, Nov 28, 1965
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| ===The Examination of the Sacrifice===
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| :''While he yet spake, there came a voice out of that cloud. It said, "This is My beloved Son. I'm so pleased with Him I'm going to smite Him for you. Hear ye Him. He's going to speak."
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| :''He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquity. He was a Lamb, the Lamb of God, the perfect Sacrifice. There'd never been nobody lived like Him, never has been nobody since live like Him. He was a perfect Masterpiece, matched God's Word exactly.''
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| ::Sermon: Identified masterpeice of God, Yuma, AZ, Dec 5, 1964
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| ===The Purpose of the Sacrifice===
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| :''The real genuine Lamb of God was hanging in plain view on Calvary, the real Mercy Seat, when God had paid the price Himself and become one of us, and had manifested Himself as a man to get acquainted with us and we to be acquainted with Him.
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| ::Sermon: Mighty God Unveiled, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 1964
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| ===Humility, and the Altar of Sacrifice===
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| :''Why was Jesus born in a stable or a manger? Did you ever think of that? He had to be. He was a Lamb. Lambs are not born in houses. Lambs are born in the barns and fields. Abel led his lamb away by a grapevine. Sacrificed him on the altar, and Abel died on the same altar his sacrificed lamb died. And every believer, that comes to Christ, must die on the same altar with his dying Lamb, Christ, and die in Christ to be a new creature: die out to the things of the world and become borned again, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Die on the same altar of self sacrifice.
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| ::Sermon: Resurrection of Lazarus, Erie, PA, July 29, 1951
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| ===The Lamb of God as the only means of salvation===
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| :''Salvation once was not completed in the offering of the goat, the sheep, the heifer in the Old Testament, because the Old Testament blood could not atone for sin. It could only cover sin. It was a pointing to a time when it would be completed... But it was only a type. But when Jesus came and His Blood was shed at Calvary, it was a complete divorcing of sin. It taken sin away. It's the only means of salvation. There is no church-joining, no letters of fellowship; there is no ritual baptisms; there's no communion, or nothing in the ritual, or any article that's been left of God, as articles pertaining to salvation; it's all in commemoration of a finished work.''
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| ::Sermon: Communion, Jeffersonville, IN, April 18, 1957
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