{"id":21522,"date":"2020-03-05T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/?p=21522"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:54:55","slug":"why-it-matters-that-the-lion-is-the-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/why-it-matters-that-the-lion-is-the-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it Matters That the Lion IS the Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard someone say, \u201cIn his first coming Jesus came as a <strong>lamb<\/strong> and in the second coming, he will return as a <strong>lion<\/strong>!&#8221; The implication is that Jesus has a lamb-like nature (love, gentleness, mercy) and a lion-like nature (power, judgment, wrath), and these are different aspects of who God is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><!--more READ MORE--><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>&#8220;God is love, but he\u2019s also holy.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;God is gentle, but he is also violent.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;Jesus forgives the paralytic, but he also used a whip in the Temple.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The sentiment here is that &#8220;Yes, God is kind but he also don\u2019t play. He\u2019ll destroy you in a heartbeat if he wants. <strong>HAVEN&#8217;T YOU EVER READ THE STORY OF ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This is one way of making sense of how Jesus is both lion and lamb, and admittedly, this is how I interpreted Scripture for many years. <strong>But is this the best way of reading Scripture?<\/strong> Is there a better way to think about how Jesus is both lion and lamb?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reimagining God through the revelation of Jesus<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The idea of Jesus being both lion and lamb is found in the book of Revelation. In the fourth chapter, John is given a vision of the throne room of God. He is caught up in the Spirit and is in awe of the majestic vision. He saw twenty-four elders with white clothes and golden crowns on their head. He also saw strange creatures that proclaim the Lord God, the Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come. This vision reveals the One who alone is worthy to receive glory and honor and power.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Then in the fifth chapter, John sees one <strong>seated at the right hand<\/strong> of the throne (a term that signifies royalty and power), holding a scroll and an angel asks who is worthy to open the scroll. John weeps and weeps because no one is found to be worthy. Then one of the elders said to John, \u201cLook, the <strong>Lion<\/strong> from the tribe of Judah. He has conquered and he is worthy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Lion IS the Lamb<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21773\" src=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jesus-lamb-of-God-4-1024x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"216\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>John is relieved and anticipates what is to come, but when we looks toward the throne, he sees &#8220;a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne.&#8221; Notice that he <em>hears <\/em>about &#8220;the Lion of the tribe of Judah\u201d but then he <em>sees<\/em> &#8220;one who looks like a slaughtered lamb <strong>standing<\/strong> in the midst of the throne.\u201d What he heard and what he saw is not the same, but the point couldn\u2019t be clearer: <strong>The Lion <\/strong><em><strong>is<\/strong><\/em><strong> the Lamb. <\/strong>The imagery is visceral. The identity of the one worthy is unexpected.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It is the Lamb who in fact is worthy to receive glory and honor and power due to God alone. Why? Because he has purchased a people through spilling <em>his own <\/em>blood. The Lion IS the Lamb. The power of the Lion IS a Lamb-like power. The one who receives all honor and glory and power IS the one who dies for his enemies in order to make them family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God&#8217;s power is different than our power<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/god-like-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"God\u2019s power cannot be understood apart from the revelation of Jesus (opens in a new tab)\">God\u2019s power cannot be understood apart from the revelation of Jesus<\/a>. We tend to assume we know what power is, and then believe that:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>God has the most of it, and<\/li>\r\n<li>God uses it in a righteous way.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In this view, power is a &#8220;neutral&#8221; tool. The writers of the New Testament suggest another way. They believed that God\u2019s power is now known, defined, and shaped by the cross of Jesus. Paul says the cross of Christ IS the power of God. The power of God is a <em>cruciform<\/em> power.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The nature of God\u2019s power is revealed in the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. God\u2019s power is not revealed by being more violent than violent empires, but through absorbing the violence of the world into Christ\u2019s body and by transforming it into pardon and liberation. Whatever image or picture of power we once believed about God must now take a cruciform shape.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21774\" src=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/800px-LambofGodBleeding-VisitationSymbol.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This lamb-like vision is the interpretive key to reading not only Revelation but all of scripture. The violent images that are depicted in the rest of this apocalyptic revelation reveal in vivid, narrative picture the ultimate defeat of Evil and Empire through the blood of the Lamb.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These pictures are not meant to reveal literal violence from the God who created heaven and earth. Instead, the sword of Jesus is the <em>word<\/em> of his mouth. The sovereign ruler of all creation does not need to coerce or control his way into re-creating the world. The need for absolute control strikes at the heart of violence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why getting this right matters<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21772\" src=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agnus-dei-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If we see Jesus as &#8220;sometimes Lion, sometimes Lamb,&#8221; we see him holding mercy and violence as arbitrary, equally-balanced virtues that he wields when necessary; determining when it is good to use one or the other. &#8220;Sure, mercy is good, but sometimes we need violence to stop violence,&#8221; the thinking goes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This belief tries to take serious the real evil and violence in the world, but does so as if Jesus\u2019 cross is simply a means for forgiving sin and not the means for conquering evil for all time. It denies that the cross of Jesus is the deepest and clearest revelation of who God is and what it means to be a genuine human being. It suggests that God must ultimately abandon the way of the cross to redeem, that ultimately violence is the savior of the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But if we see Jesus as the \u201cLion Who IS the Lamb,&#8221; we see that cruciform power <em>is<\/em> the power of God. It\u2019s the only kind of power that God bears and it has always been this way. We didn\u2019t always know this. No one imagined that the King of Israel dying on a cross would be the definitive picture of who God is. Jesus really did win the victory on the cross and the way of the cross is now being seen from creation to new creation to the one who is, who was, and who is to come. Amen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources for further study<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Podcast episode: <a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/god-like-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Why it Changes Everything if God is Just Like Jesus&quot; (opens in a new tab)\">&#8220;Why it Changes Everything if God is Just Like Jesus&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606085603\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bensblog04-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1606085603&amp;linkId=6dddaad7191ebc64c34d9847185c61d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb in to New Creation, (opens in a new tab)\"><em>Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb in to New Creation,<\/em><\/a> by Michael J. Gorman<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060665033\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bensblog04-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0060665033&amp;linkId=736c04961d07653a88707ac77e81b3c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Reversed Thunder: the Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination, (opens in a new tab)\"><em>Reversed Thunder: the Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination,<\/em><\/a> by Eugene Peterson<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802869238\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bensblog04-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0802869238&amp;linkId=1b4127a383498c836fad754ae9290739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Nonviolent God, (opens in a new tab)\"><em>The Nonviolent God,<\/em><\/a> by J. Denny Weaver<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1506432603\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bensblog04-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1506432603&amp;linkId=22a8190a205c1739b6a323acbe349115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence, (opens in a new tab)\"><em>Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence,<\/em><\/a> by Greg Boyd<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard someone say, \u201cIn his first coming Jesus came as a lamb and in the second coming, he will return as a lion!&#8221; The implication is that Jesus has a lamb-like nature (love, gentleness, mercy) and a lion-like nature (power, judgment, wrath), and these are different aspects of who God is.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lead-like-jesus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why it Matters That the Lion IS the Lamb - Gravity Commons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s not that Jesus is sometimes like a Lion and sometimes like a Lamb. 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