The Lambert Letters: Name-o-logy: Lambert

Baby Lambert… the name is not exactly inspired by Mr. Highlander – Christopher Lambert, although we are believing God for Lambert to be placed on spiritual high ground by God’s grace and have mountain-top prayer encounters :)

But really, the name is inspired by the cartoon: Lambert the Sheepish Lion!

Lambert the Sheepish Lion is a very special cartoon. This cartoon is a Disney classic. One of my all time favourite cartoon. It was produced in 1952, most of us are not even born yet. Btw, this cartoon was actually nominated for an academy award.

The thing about Lambert the sheepish lion is that it is very Messianic. I personally find that Lambert is somewhat of a parable of Jesus. Jesus came to His own, but His own received Him not. Just as in Jesus’ first coming, His Jewish brothers rejected Him, Lambert was also rejected by his sheepish brothers, but when the time came for him to manifest the lion in him, he destroyed the works of the wolf (just as Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil) and his sheepish brothers now hail him as Saviour of the flock.

And this parallels very nicely with Jesus’ second coming; when the Messiah shall return, the Jews will finally recognized Jesus as the Messiah; they will look upon Him whom they have pierced and they will say “ Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” in that time, like what Paul says in Romans 11:26, all Israel will be saved. All Israel will acknowledge Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. Then finally, Jesus will known by the Jewish flock as Saviour.

The end time picture that John reveals of Jesus in the book of Revelations is that of a Lamb that was slain and a Lion from the tribe of Judah in victory. This melding of lamb and lion imagery suggests a conquest that have been won not by destructive power and might, but through obedience and suffering. The victory has been decisively won at the cross, where Jesus came as the suffering servant; where Jesus came as a lamb to the slaughter. Yet the world has yet to witness the full manifestation of that victory. But there will come a time; a time where the Messiah will return and completely eradicate the works of the devil. Where the last enemy, death, will be put under the feet of Jesus.

And we are all expectantly awaiting this second coming. We are eagerly anticipating the return of the King! Jesus came some 2000 years ago as the Lamb of God, and He shall return triumphantly as the Lion of Judah.

Remember the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis? The key character there is Aslan. What kind of an animal is Aslan? Very obviously, CS Lewis got his inspiration form Revelations where Jesus is referred to as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Aslan is another parable of Jesus where he also died and rose again in victory. Of course, CS Lewis wanted Chronicles to be deliberately Christian, I don’t know if Lambert the Sheepish Lion is deliberately made to be Messianic, but I think Lambert the Sheepish Lion is a lot cuter than Chronicles, which has a more serious disposition.