Where is the Lamb?

The young lad Isaac asked the most important question a sinner can ask: "Here is the wood and the fire, but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering?"

Isaac knew that a righteous God required a bloody sacrifice from any sinner who would dare approach unto Him. He had seen his father Abraham offer many sacrifices, but always a lamb had been brought.

The full terror of Isaac's question was unknown to him when he asked it, but Abraham knew its true significance. For his son Isaac had been dedicated to judgment and wrath, and there was no sacrifice that Abraham dared offer in his place. The Wood and the Fire were the judgment that would shortly consume little Isaac, and there was no Lamb found to take his place.

When God declares judgment against the sinner, nobody dare suggest that His wrath ought to be shifted upon a mere substitute lamb.

But Abraham, under the power of the Holy Ghost, provided God's answer to Isaac's question: "God will provide Himself a Lamb for a sacrifice."

This answer by Abraham is the most astounding doctrine of the entire Scripture - that God would Himself supply a substitute to take the place of the sinner, so that the very one who has offended God is let go from the judgment by the Righteous Judge's provision of a substitute.

Sinners don't ask Isaac's question because they ignore the promise of judgment. The wood and the fire mean nothing to them.

A true understanding of the judgment that is pending for sinners would provoke them to earnestly seek an answer to Isaac's question - where is a Lamb for a sacrifice?

John the Baptist found God's Lamb when he saw our Savior, the blessed Lord Jesus Christ!