The Lamb as Though Slain

"Elohim will provide himself a lamb" (Gen 22:8) opens the image; the Pesach lamb is chosen on the tenth and killed on the fourteenth (Exod 12:3-6); Isaiah's servant goes "as a lamb to the slaughter" (Isa 53:7). The Lamb of Rev 5:6 stands "as it had been slain": His wounds are His authority, not scars of defeat but credentials, the purchase price Yahuah paid, the evidence, and the verdict at once. He comes and takes the scroll from "him that sat upon the throne" (Rev 5:7), remaining distinct from Yahuah, which leaves the Trinity no room. "Slain from the foundation of the world" means the redemptive plan was settled before creation, not that He was killed before time.