You undoubtedly remember that children’s song. Although you may not have known it was a gospel song. As my young friend enthusiastically continued to sing the song, I began to realize how theologically and doctrinally accurate this song really is. Consider some of the verses of this simple song.

Think about Mary. When an angel announced to the young virgin that she would conceive in her womb and brings forth the Messiah – Jesus, the one who would save His people from their sins. She asked how that could be possible. “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God.” (See Matthew 1:20-23, Luke 1:30-37, Isaiah 7:14.)

Consider the next phrase “had a little lamb”. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to the river Jordan to be baptized, he cried out “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29, 36) The Jews knew what John was referring to. In the Bible God has given pictures, parables, symbols, and signs to help us understand and know Him more fully.

Two such symbols are the lion and the lamb. In God’s covenant with Israel the priests were to kill an innocent lamb and present the blood on the altar of the mercy seat in the temple. That blood made atonement for the sins of the people. It looked forward to the sacrifice of God’s Son on the cross for the sins of the world.

Isaiah prophesied concerning God’s lamb in the 53 chapter, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows. Surely he hath borne our grief and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities. He was oppressed. Yet he opened not his mouth, he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin.” (Verses 3 – 12)

The aged apostle John exiled, to the rocky prison Island of Patmos for his testimony and the preaching of Jesus Christ, was given a vision of heaven and the events of the end of the age. In the book of Revelation we are given details of future events. In chapter five John begins to weep because no one was found worthy to take the book with its seven seals and open it, to usher in the end time events. An angel told John not to weep because “the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals” (Revelation 5:5).

The lion is symbolic of a king – by rule, of power, and authority. There is an old weather forecaster saying is: If March comes in like a lamb, it will go out like a lion and if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb.

Jesus not only is the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”, He is the King of Kings symbolized by the lion. When Jesus was crucified on the cross for your sins and mine, a sign was nailed up above His head – “The King of the Jews”. Have you made God’s lamb your Lord and King? (See Romans 10:9, 10.)

When John turned to see the Lion of Judah, what he saw amazed him. “And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne stood a lamb as it had been slain, and they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals for thou was slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation” (Revelation 5:6-10).

“All the children laughed and played to see a lamb at school.” Have you experienced the joy of sins forgiven and a new life in Chris? You can by making the Lamb of God your Savior and King.

Another old song says, “Though millions have come, there’s still room for one – Yes, there’s room at the cross for you.” Receive the Lion and the Lamb.

A - Admit you have sinned. “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

B – Believe in Jesus. “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

C - Confess and leave your sins. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us form al unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9-10