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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "O Livro de Azarias" (1946-1947) Azarias
[the Guardian Angel of Maria Valtorta] says:
[...] "Who is the Lamb? He is the Son of God and of Mary Immaculate. From the Father He has received life eternally; from his Mother He received humanity at the proper time and became Jesus Christ. In being Jesus Christ, has He perhaps ceased to be God? No, He has not ceased to be God, but He has also taken on human nature, becoming a true man, in order to be the Savior that is, Yeshua ["Yahweh saves"].
The learned explain that this means "Savior." But, soul of mine, it also means something much more powerful! It contemplates and compares the Name of God, as the Hebrews said it, and the name of the Son of Mary. They have the same root, to signify the same origin and nature. Jesus, then, means God, remains God. And it means salvation, with the ending "shua." But descent – indeed, his proceeding from God the Father – is confirmed by the root of the name.
"In being God, could the One who is called the Lamb not be worthy to receive power, divinity, wisdom, fortitude, and honor? Not only was He capable of these things, but He possessed them through his own divine nature. Is it, then, an error to say that the Lamb is worthy to receive them? It is not an error.
From the moment the Word became flesh and the Lamb of God for the great redeeming Passover, He joined the nature of Man to the perfection proper to God and, like all men, had a free will, passions, sentiments, and senses.
The Most Holy Father did not apply any coercion to the Incarnate Son and treated Him just like every other man so that his sanctity as a Man would be real and perfect and similar to his Holiness as God. If the Father had bound or reduced the Son"s freedom and senses and sentiments; if – and He could have done so – He had forbidden the devil, the world, and the flesh to assert themselves before the Incarnate Son, the Humanity of the Son and his sanctity as a man would have been a mere appearance.
But the Father wanted the full and perfect Holiness of the Son made Flesh so that the Victim would really be the spotless Lamb and immaculate host immolated pro omnibus
[for everyone].
"The Son of God was tempted not once, but thousands and thousands of times in his Humanity, for only therein could He be tempted – by his Humanity itself, by the world, and by the devil. And He remained Holy and Faithful to the Law, Justice, and, therefore, to his Mission by his own free will. And thus also faithful to the Sacrifice for whose accomplishment He had taken on Flesh.
And it is for this reason, then, that He who, being God, became Man, Victim, and Lamb is worthy to receive, as a Man as well, what He already possessed as God, both glory and rule forever and ever.
If He had not sacrificed Himself – this is the key – He would not have received it. It is because of his love of sacrifice – which is the highest form of love – that the Lamb is given the scepter of King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Let whoever wants to have true glory love sacrifice, imitating the Lamb, and with the Lamb he will share beatific glory.
"The Prayer sings, "Oh almighty and eternal God, who wanted to restore all things in your beloved Son, King of the Universe." Do you see, oh souls, God"s wish and his generosity in love?
There was no one but a God who could placate God and restore Order, disturbed in Eden, to its primitive perfection. The Order was that they who had been created in the image and likeness of God might enjoy God and be gods in beautiful Paradise.
It was not fitting that in men the spirit – granted by God, an emanation of God, a seed of God, the Father of men – should be lost after the death of the flesh. And neither was it fitting that a perpetual exile should keep the just spirits far from the Dwelling of the Father in a sempiternal limbo. The former was not fitting on account of the dignity which should be given to all that comes from God; the latter, on account of the Justice of God. The just had to receive a reward. What reward, if not Paradise? But souls impaired by original sin, which no purgatory erases, could not enter Paradise.
There was, then, a need to cancel this Sin. There was a need for a God to re-establish Order and also elevate it, so that being unstained by the Sin does not now come solely from an inheritance, as men"s cleanness would have been from a faithful Adam and Eve, but from the Sacrifice of a God Man, his infinite merits, and his Doctrine, which, when accepted by souls with good will, makes them imitators of the Son of God in works and virtues.
 

 
Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta
Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.