Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY ENOCH PENN
y _,+,,._ HEN John the Baptist at one time saw Jesus
walking, he- cried: "Behold the Lamb of
fi .= God." At another time he cried: "Behold
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the Lamb of God, that taketh away the
sin of the world."
The words of the prophet were: "He was led as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep dumb before her shearers,
so opened he not his mouth." These words imply
that a lamb was symbolic of a condition of willing and
complete surrender; and one phaze of the meaning of the
statement, "the lamb of God," is one who has surrendered
himself wholly to God to obey his word and will
perfectly.
The most prominent part in the Jewish ceremonialism
was played by the sacrificial lamb as a burnt offering.
While the burnt offering was offered at many different
times and at many different places, yet it seems to have
been recognized in a general way that the proper place
for a burnt offering was upon the altar in the Tabernacle
and later, upon the altar in the Temple at Jerusalem.
That the Tabernacle and the Temple were the proper
place to offer a burnt offering was manifested in two
ways, First, the people were admonished: "Take heed
to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every
place that thou seest, but in the place which the LORD
shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer
thy burnt offerings."
Second, the fires upon the altar of