Who is Jesus, the Lamb of God?

What is a lamb? Besides being a baby sheep, and dependant upon mom ewe for nourishment, what is a lamb? In biblical times it was used to sacrifice so that one’s sins could be forgiven. For that year. And sacrifices were continual. So that forgiveness was an afterthought. No one discounted that fact that humans would sin. (Romans 3:23). But the fact that loomed large was the fact that the sacrifice made one year didn’t take past sins away nor did it cleanse the conscience. Only Christ could do that. That’s what the Scriptures teach. In Hebrews 9:12-14 for instance Christ is shown as the only sacrifice that was a living sacrifice and with which we could enter the Holiest of Holies. We meaning the common man, me, you, John down the block, Peter in the boat. Because of Christ, we can “enter His gates with praise” as the song says. Those verses go on to say that the blood of goats and bulls and heifers could only change one from being ceremonially unclean to ceremonially clean. Later passages in Hebrews say that the blood of goats and bulls cannot cleanse us (Hebrews 10:4). Only Jesus can cleanse the conscience. He does so through the operation of baptism, not to cleanse the body but the conscience. (1 Peter 3:21)