The lamb in glory
Note how often the Scriptures speak of Christ in his glory as ‘the Lamb.’
The multitude which no man can number stand with palms of victory ‘before the Lamb’, and their worship is ascribing ‘salvation to the Lamb.’ They have ‘washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb,’ and rejoice at ‘the marriage supper of the Lamb.’ In that dwelling place ‘the Lamb is its light.’ He who feeds them is ‘the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne,’ and the river of the water of life flows ‘out of the throne of the Lamb.’ The book of citizenship to the New Jerusalem is ‘the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.’
Clearly this is meant to carry adoring thoughts of the cross into our every thought of heavenly happiness. The heir of that joy will never forget that great price. It is the chorus of every song of the saints in light. All heaven echoes with praise ‘to him who washed us from our sins in his own blood.’
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