Three reasons for the baptism of Jesus by John: It was to identify the Lord as the Son of God at the beginning of his ministry. Accordingly, one of the reasons for Jesus’ baptism was to confirm the Lord’s identity to the prophet, so that John could make “manifest to Israel” (Jn. 1:31) the good news that the Messiah had arrived. Reverently, but audible enough for those nearby to hear, John uttered the admiration that still moves us two millennia later: “Behold the Lamb of God.” 1 It is instructive that this long-prophesied forerunner to Jesus did not call Him “Jehovah” or “Savior” or “Redeemer” or even “the Son of God”—all of which were applicable Detail. Adoration of the Lamb, by Jan van Eyck (1432), oil on wood, Ghent altarpiece, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent. We're examining the Lamb in God's throne room. The Lion of Judah who conquers is the Lamb who is slain. But as John describes what he sees in the throne room of God, this Lamb is not lying lifeless on the ground, drained of blood A stained glass window depicting Agnes holding a little lamb and the palm of martyrdom—St. Nicholas Church, Belle River, Minnesota. The Early Church rightly venerated young Agnes for her valor, her virginity and her boldness. Agnus is the Latin word meaning “lamb, sheep.”. Her sacrifice as a young “lamb” and the holiness of the Lamb "The Lamb hath been slain from the foundation of the world," because from "the foundation of the world" (cf. Hebrews 9:26) his death has been efficacious for the salvation of men; and because his death "was foreordained before the foundation of the world," although manifest only in the last times (1 Peter 1:20). What was foreknown to and 2. The Passover lamb reminds us that Jesus is the “Lamb of God.” Due to his sacrificial death on the cross, the Bible calls Jesus the “Lamb of God.”This symbolism draws on the Passover “What did they see?” Sobel asked of the shepherds’ arrival at the site of Jesus’ birth. “A baby born in the same place that the Passover lambs were born, swaddled like a passover lamb, pointing to the fact that Messiah was the lamb of God who would take over the sins of the world.” Watch him break it all down below: He said, “How vital … it is to understand the Fall, making necessary the Atonement—hence the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ.” 1. President Lee often testified of the divine mission of the Savior, without whom we could not be delivered from death and sin. He declared: “The Son of God … had the power to make worlds, to direct them. HKfcWrV.