The Lamb of God in Heaven - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne … stood a Lamb as though it had been slain.
Revelation 5:6

The Lamb of God in Heaven
John is the only man that ever wept in heaven, and though he wept much he was not allowed to weep long. He hears one of the elders saying, “Do not weep. Behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll.” And John, who had been so busy looking through heaven and earth and under the earth that he had quite overlooked the throne, now turns to the throne expecting to see the all-prevailing Lion; 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.” The Lion that prevails is the Lamb that was slain. On earth, John had heard the words, “Behold the Lamb of God!” He had followed the Lamb in His humiliation. He had stood at the foot of the cross and been a witness of the Lamb in His sufferings. He had seen Him when men pierced His hands and feet at the place of the three crosses, “where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center.” He had seen Jesus as the risen Man on the evening of the resurrection day, when Jesus came and “stood in the midst” and showed His disciples the wound marks in His hands and feet. Now, transported to heaven, thronged with the vast host of the redeemed—in the very center of heavenly glory—he sees, “in the midst of the throne … a Lamb as though it had been slain.”

He sees the Lamb in His glories—Jesus with the wound marks in His hands and feet, the only Man in all that eternal glory who will bear any trace of the sorrows of time.

Hamilton Smith

Jesus, God’s Lamb, in the midst
Of the throne Thou art crowned;
Thou once on Calvary sufferedst,
Of man the disowned;
Worthy art Thou, glory encircles Thy brow,
Son of the Father enthroned.

E. Dönges