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Originally Posted by OBW
While the Lord, or Jehova, was consistently God in the OT, it is important to realize that God was thought of and spoken of in that context as One... While there are hints of the truth of the Trinity, going all the way back to "let us make man in our image," God was not written of as being a shepherd to himself.
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If Jehova cannot be a shepherd to himself, then how can Jehova say to himself, "Jehova said to my Lord, sit here at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool"? How can Jehova tell himself to sit at his own right hand?
And going back to the "Lamb of God" motif, what constitutes being spotless and without blemish? I would say, sinlessness. And what is sin? Disobeying God's will. Jesus left heaven but never left God's will. So his spotlessness as an atoning sacrifice was built on his completely obedient actions while in the flesh. Jesus was in the likeness of the flesh of sin, but never in the consequence of the flesh, never in the act of sin (i.e. rebellion) itself. Everyone else dies spotted by sin. Jesus died spotless. He obeyed to the end, the death of the cross.