Lamb power (Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30)
Just when victory should be a show of power, the vulnerable lamb appears, standing as if slain.
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Revelation can be a terrifying book of the Bible to encounter in the Easter season. We usually think about it as a doom and gloom kind of book. That is until a child, bleating like a sheep, reminds us what it is all about.
