The good news of a slaughtered Lamb

I've been quoting Graeme Goldsworthy a lot lately. The Goldsworthy Trilogy is a collection of three seminal works by this author, they being The Gospel and the Kingdom, The Gospel in Revelation, and The Gospel and Wisdom. I've just begun the third of these, and no doubt will be sharing some of Goldsworthy's own wisdom concerning "wisdom." But for now, I want to quote for you the penultimate paragraph of The Gospel in Revelation, a book that has impacted my own thinking in a significant way:

The world looks on the slaughtered Lamb with pity, disdain and even abhorrence. Through the tinted glass of self-importance it views his sacrifice as a joke, or as the natural end of an outmoded ethic based on superstition. But the world itself gives the lie to its own interpretation. For had the Lamb provided such a senseless life and death, the remedy would be to leave it alone to fester and wither away. Instead of a few bleached bones and the smell of putrefaction he left an empty tomb and his Spirit who so seared the truth of the gospel into the hearts and minds of his little band of followers that they began to turn the world upside down. For this the world will not forgive him. It rises up and lashes out at the Lamb while pretending that he isn't real. It does this because the one whose spirit pervades the world knows full well that the slain Lamb is his downfall.