Daily Diary March 26th, 2020

The Lamb of God

I have been reading many online posts about how God is angry and punishing us.  The scriptures they quote are old testiment scriptures without reference to the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. 

Therefore, I was led to share this blog from 2016.  We need to understand that God's judgement was passed over to Christ at the cross and through His death and resurrection we are forgiven.  God's wrath was satisfied at the cross and Jesus rose from the dead to bring "Victory" to those who believe!

This is the blog from 2016:

Last week our youth group watched a video in which Abraham was taking Isaac to the mountain to be sacrificed.  Each time I think of this story it reminds me of God providing a way for us when we trust Him.

But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”

And he said, “Here I am, my son.”

Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

¹¹ But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

So he said, “Here I am.”

¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

¹⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— ¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

One of my favorite scriptures in God’s Word is when John saw Jesus coming and proclaimed:

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

As Christians we are the descendants of Abraham.  God provided the one “True” lamb in Jesus Christ, His only son as the sacrifice for our sins once and for all.

The Lord provided!