{"id":8213,"date":"2020-04-13T20:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:32:08","slug":"lamb-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8213","title":{"rendered":"Lamb Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rossing-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rossing-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rossing-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rossing-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rossing-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The slain Lamb&#8217;s victory through suffering love is the heart of the Revelation story.  I want to say again that this theology, this counter-understanding of victory in the Lamb, is more relevant today than ever.  In the face of terrorism and the glorification of war, we need the vision of &#8220;Lamb power&#8221; to remind us that true victory comes in our world not through military might but through self-giving love.  Revelation&#8217;s conquering Messiah is the slain but standing Lamb, the very opposite of Rome&#8217;s victory image.  In Revelation, Jesus conquers not by inflicting violence but by accepting the violence inflicted upon him in crucifixion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8212; Barbara R. Rossing, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/rapture_exposed.html\">The Rapture Exposed<\/a>,<\/em> p. 135<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: South Riding, Virginia, April 5, 2020","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slain Lamb&#8217;s victory through suffering love is the heart of the Revelation story. I want to say again that this theology, this counter-understanding of victory in the Lamb, is more relevant today than ever. In the face of terrorism and the glorification of war, we need the vision of &#8220;Lamb power&#8221; to remind us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,56,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-jesus","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8416,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}