Hora’ah – הוראה – Teaching
“Here the term ‘mashiyah’ is mentioned explicitly as identical to the angel Metatron. Moreover the quotation from Isaiah 11:12 was traditionally understood as pointing to the Messiah … The master mentioned here is apparently G-d, whose name is found within Metatron or the Messiah … The picture, however, is more complex and interesting. Immediately after this passage, the author again mentions Sandalphon as an ox, and the “Prince of the Back, the Price of Judgment, but the sheep, which is the innocent lamb, is in its entirety good, and it is Moshe, the Prince of Mercy. The juxtaposition of the ox and the lamb, the latter standing for Metatron and Messiah is reminiscent of the well-know motif of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of G-d.”
Messianic Mystics, Moshe Idel, pp.303,304
“When the life force in the animal, which is called the holy sparks, is properly sacrificed to G-d, it creates an elevation of all the life force in all the animal kingdom. It is all elevated to its spiritual source in heaven in order to draw down great influx and blessing to all Creation. The three pure animals are the cow, goat and lamb. Our sages teach that these animals correspond to our three Patriarchs, or to the three properties which the Patriarchs symbolize. The power of the cow corresponds to Abraham, who represents loving-kindness. The power of the goat corresponds to Isaac, who represents awe. The power of the lamb corresponds to Jacob, who represents mercy. The very voice of the lamb arouses mercy. When the lamb is sacrificed it arouses the mercy of G-d to redeem his people from bondage and slavery. This is why the lamb was chosen especially to be the Passover offering.”
Lamb Symbolism and the Temple Service, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, http://www.inner.org/responsa/leter1/resp3.htm
NEW TESTAMENT
“The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 1:29
“And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.”
Revelation 5:6
“And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;”
Revelation 6:16
“For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.[a] And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 7:17
“And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.”
Revelation 12:11
“These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17:14
“And nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Revelation 21:27
“There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him;”
Revelation 22:3