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Where is the lamb?

Isaac asked one question on a mountain. It took the whole Bible to answer it.

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Where is the lamb?: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 6 passages of the Bible, from Genesis 22:7–8 to Revelation 5:12. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 Genesis 22:7–8

    7Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

    8Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

    Abraham and Isaac climb the mountain with the fire and the wood. Isaac can see everything but the lamb. That day God provides a ram in Isaac’s place, so the lamb is still to come.

  2. 2 Exodus 12:13

    The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

    Centuries later, on the night of the first Passover, every family in Israel marks its door with the blood of a lamb.

    • Genesis 22:7 → Exodus 12:3 · 2 reader votes (weak link)

  3. 3 Isaiah 53:7

    He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

    Isaiah describes a servant who suffers for others and goes to his death without a word.

    • Exodus 12:8 → Isaiah 53:10 · 3 reader votes (weak link)

  4. 4 John 1:29

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

    John the Baptist sees Jesus coming and names Him. Isaac’s question finally has its answer.

    • Genesis 22:8 → John 1:29 · 15 reader votes
    • Isaiah 53:7 → John 1:29 · 52 reader votes

  5. 5 1 Corinthians 5:7

    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

    Paul calls Jesus the Passover lamb of Exodus 12 outright.

    • Exodus 12:5–6 → 1 Corinthians 5:7 · 9 reader votes

  6. 6 Revelation 5:12

    In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

    In the Bible’s last book, all of heaven worships the Lamb.

    • John 1:29 → Revelation 5:12–13 · 15 reader votes
    • Genesis 22:8 → Revelation 5:12 · 9 reader votes

From the first book to the last, Isaac’s question has one answer: God provided the Lamb, and the Lamb is Jesus.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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