Since the Lord Jesus actually died so many years after the foundation of the world.. how is it that John the baptist introduced the Lord in such a way? As the one slain FROM the foundation of the world! Even before man sinned the Lord Jesus as the Lamb was slain. This I find totally mind boggling and I believe it has much to do with the fact that the Lord Jesus died in three statuses.. As the Lamb of God.. As the Grain of wheat and as the Brass Serpent. The first to deal with our sins, the other to release His life as the grain of wheat to produce the many grains.. and as the Brass serpent in order to deal with the serpentine nature we inherited and we poisoned with because of the fall... What is your take on this matter.
2007-05-11 19:31:00 · 5 answers · asked by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
John Baptist referred to Jesus as the Lamb of God, however it was John the Revelator who refers to the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The reason for this is before God ever created anything, there was counsel in the Godhead, God foreseeing that if He created freewilled sentient beings like Himself, in due time they would turn to self will and fall away from their union with God. Therefore before the creation the plan of redemption was conceived in the Godhead that the Son would become manifest in the flesh, become a bona fide member of the human race, and as God's appointed representative of the human race, satisfy the demands of justice by taking upon Himself the penalty for violated law and rebellion, and reconcile mankind to God through His propitiatory sacrifice.
2007-05-11 19:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You can see even from the story of creation in Genesis God's plan for our salvation. God is alll knowing and knew man would fall from his glory before he created the world and had a plan Jesus christ and the aotnement before he created the world. Wehn you studfy the first scriptures God dave us the first book of Moses we call Genesis It begins with God saysing let US create man in OUR image. In Genesis 2 we see man's creation in his image. God first creates man from the dust. (He makes his flesh) then God breaths in a spirit and these two become a living soul. This is the image of God above the animals as man had an eternal spirit. God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit and these are one God. When we read the sory of the Garden of Eden we see that there are two trees in the midst of the Garden these trees represent the two natures of God. the tree of knowledge of good and evil represents God's righteousness, the law. The tree of life represents God's grace Jesus Christ. God told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and that the day they ate of it they would surely die. This represents God's law and shows that man could not live up to God's righteouness. When man partakes of the law because he is not perfect the ;aw does destroy him. The wages of sin is death. the fact is the other tree in the midst of the Garden was the tree of life this shows God's plan for his creation throuhg our lord Jesus Christ...eat of this tree and they will live forever. Abraham said the lord will provide himslef a lamb. Isiah taught the lamb would atone for sin. John the Baptist anounced behold the lamb of God.
2007-05-12 02:51:48 · answer #2 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because god is omniscient, in other words, he knows everything that's happened and everything that will happen, he has known for all eternity that Christ would have to die to save man.
2007-05-12 02:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by gehme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting!
2007-05-12 02:36:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, Christ has been with God from the beginning (John 1:1) which means Christ was there when the foundations of the earth were laid (creation). There are pictures of the Christ's sacrifice throughout the old testament such as when Abraham took Isaac to be sacrificed. The story of Joseph is a picture of the life of Christ Jesus. Remember Jacob's ladder? The ladder is Christ Jesus leading to heaven. He is the only path to salvation. The Lord is all knowing and everlasting - He knew that man would fall into sin and with that sin would be forever separated from God (the second death, spiritual death). So just as the un-blemished lamb is used for the passover meal (another picture of Christ), Christ was to be the perfect lamb sacrificed so that we could be free of that sin and live eternally with God. So 2,000 years ago, Christ was nailed to a cross and you may still not fully understand why John the Baptist said what he said. Many people look at the old and new testaments and see them as two different books, separate stories, etc. Some today even disregard the old testament which is foolish. The two are connected by Christ Jesus. Throughout the pages of the old testament you find who? Christ Jesus - He leaps off almost every page. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Enoch, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, etc. all spoke of Christ Jesus and what was to come. The Psalms are full of Christ and what was going to take place. One of my favorites is Psalm 22:
1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Amazing! Christ is there from the very foundation of the world and the Father and Son knew what had to done to redeem us. At creation, a chain of events was begun that could not be stopped that ended with Christ's ressurection. "O Death, O Death, where is thy sting?" Also, Christ died one death and one only. That is all that was needed from the perfect Lamb of God. This is evident in Christ's statement on the cross, "It is finished." Everything that had been set into motion from creation, to the fall, to the birth of Christ, and His death and ressurection had been accomplished in this one moment. It truly was finished.
God bless you.
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2007-05-12 02:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by bwtur88 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋