The lamb, the shepherd and the sheep.

The Bible is a whole, and in its own interpretation there lies a first principle.

That first principle guides us through many places and things. It never lets us down.

Like all great narratives the story develops over time.

In this case the story takes thousands of years, but what a story!

Shall we begin then?

In the opening statements of man’s fall and the beginnings of his redemption: the purchasing back of what was taken away, the man and his freedom to choose.

We find something that God the author of the Book sets up and often goes unnoticed by the regular material that passes off for Bible study and education regarding the Book.

To begin the steps in the redemption of man.

God kills an animal Himself! God takes the life of an innocent creature to provide a temporary covering for the fallen man.

What was that animal and what was that covering?

let’s discover shall we, for in this single pursuit we are taken through the book right up to the very end. We find a pattern presented that keeps a consistent measure throughout the book. It does not ever change, and thus as we study this book we find that the pattern always matters. If we are paying attention to the book and not to the theological suppositions of men who have made up their minds regarding this book, we shall learn what the Author of This Unknown Book wished for us to find.

We shall always be able to locate where we are in the Book by this first of patterns. It will be able to timeline us and show us what place we are dealing with regarding how God is working in the redemption story.

We shall be looking for three conditions within this timeline

1. The lamb and its development towards fulfilling the redemption narrative.

2. The Shepherd and his relations to this development and His sheep.

3. The Sheep and how they are gathered into the fold at any of the given times under discussion.

This profound and revealing method will do more to teach you the Unknown Book than the piles of theological misgivings that are passed off on the masses today.

So let us take a look at this timeline we are going to use.

We will measure other time lines to it, and make comparisons that reveal yet more about the construction and contents of the worlds most unusual and neglected book.

The Time line of The Lamb as it marches through the Unknown Book.

The lamb - Typified - Genesis 3:21 and Genesis 4:2.

First: A lamb slain in a garden to cover the nakedness of the first two people who had violated God’s Holiness and rebelled against God’s Authority. More on this to come.

Look at how Cain and Abel approach God with their offerings, what they offer and what God accepts and rejects!!

I wonder in the animal world do they consider this beast of beginnings?

I know I do.

The lamb - Prophesied - Genesis 22: 5-8

Second: The lamb is prophesied to come and deliver from this fall that has occurred. It is descriptive in that it promises some to bruise the head of the serpent.

The first great promise given to us all.

But who would understand the path through the Unknown Book?

It is no surprise that nations abhored the one nation the raised these creatures.

 

The lamb - Applied - Exodus 12:1-11.

Third: One of the greatest single genocidal acts in the world takes place in a single night. A lamb is central to those who die and those who survive. This is most important to understand for it will have future relevance as we get near the return of the lamb to rule and being.

The first great application by all.

Nothing in history matches this event and its forbidding events.