The Lamb on the Throne

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The priesthood is the summit. He is “the Great High Priest.” This is marvelously the final expression of the Being of God, and therefore of us as His re-expression. Marvelous that the nature of the One in the universe, the Eternal Being, is purely other-love. He for His universe, not the universe for Him. The Lamb on the throne. Fantastic! The Lamb slain, ever fulfilling the eternal law of the cross: life issues from death. The One whose total nature is that He died that others may live. The highest position through eternity given, as Paul revealed, not to a conquering monarch, in the usual sense in which we think of conquest, but to the One who has conquered His universe and won all to Himself by becoming their servant to the final point that “He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Then God’s verdict is pronounced in the presence of all peoples, “Wherefore God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name above every name” that all should bow the knee to Him and confess Him as Lord! (Phil. 2:5-11). What? A king crowned with many crowns–yes. In fact, the King, but crowned with a crown of thorns that we all might become co-kings with Him!