Lamb of God Zurbaran
Unreported moments from First Century Jerusalem - Easter Day
Paschale.
Whoever heard of a sacrificial lamb fighting back?
Normally they just bled and died.
But this one, this Paschal Lamb
transformed the Temple's butchery block
into a field of glorious conquest,
conquering the sin, the hate,
and the devilification
that had been laid upon him.
For, on a cheerless Sabbath night,
flayed, pierced, pinioned;
unquestionably dead
from a shameful spit hanging,
laid upon a slab of stone:
he triumphantly, gloriously
broke free of every natural constraint,
whilst earth trembled with awe
as it was touched by heaven.
Death and sin, he demonstrated
to a sick and troubled world
could not hold him.
Death and sin he demonstrated
to a sick and troubled world
could not hold us!
From his eternal throne,
‘Arise, my friends’, he cries, ‘Arise!’
‘You who have been faithful,
like the women who watched,
waited and discovered my empty tomb, arise’
‘I have fought death, I have fought sin
I have conquered.’
‘And my beloved flock, the triumph is for you.
Arise!’
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