3
¶ And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto
the place of which God had told him. 4
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar
off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young
men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship,
and come again to you. 6 And Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he
took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together. 9 And they came to the place
which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood
in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
and took the knife to slay his son.
11 ¶
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing
unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son from me. 13 And
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for
a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to
this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Without questioning Abraham proceeds toward his
obedience to God’s seemingly horrific command. For we know that human sacrifice
is forbidden by God as an act of worship.
Jeremiah
32:35 And they built the high places of
Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and
their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them
not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Mount Moriah is what we know today as the Temple
Mount.
2Chronicles
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the
house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto
David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
The third day represents
to us the resurrection of Christ after three days.
Luke
24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day:
This resurrection is a theme mentioned in several
places in prophetic verses in the Old Testament.
Hosea
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in
the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Isaac as a type of Christ. Verse 8 shows Abraham
speaking a prophecy of Christ, the Lamb of God (John 1:29, 36), as it is a ram
that is provided for this sacrifice as a ram is the sacrifice of Aaron and his
son’s consecration as God’s priests in Exodus 29. Isaac is being set apart for
God’s purpose and we are being given a glimpse of Christ’s sacrifice and
resurrection.
…God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering…
Notice here that to stop him, God, as the angel of the
Lord, the appearance of God, which appearance is Christ as we have seen, calls
Abraham out of heaven. Notice the similar scene with Hagar in preceding
passages.
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