Genesis
22:3 ¶ 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.
Genesis
22:11 ¶ 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 from the previously quoted Deuteronomy 12:29-31; Jeremiah 19:5, and
Jeremiah 32:35.
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 and I would say possibly the same age as Christ when Christ
was crucified. No, Isaac was not a child. 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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