“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”
Put yourself in Abraham’s shoes. Abraham and Sarah were old when God had given them Isaac. Now God would kill their only son. Abraham had great faith that God would shield Issac from harm. But Abraham was not a perfect person.
Abraham and Sarah had already deceived people out of fear that Abraham would be killed. He kept passing his Wife off as his sister to avoid being killed. (Gen 12:11-12, Gen 20:2)
God had even entered into a covenant with Abraham that he would multiply into a great nation.
Remember the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? (Gen 2:17)
Abraham realized the difference between what was Good and what was Evil. Its just a little white lie, right? If Abraham told the truth about his wife, he feared he would die. So a little white lie about her being my sister is OK.
Right?
As Abraham is heading up the mount to prepare an altar for the sacrifice, he continued in Faith that God would provide. When Abraham has the altar prepared with his Son bound to the altar. Just as Abraham holds up the knife to slay his Son, The Angel of God stops him.
“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.” (Gen 22:12)
The pattern of Jesus is clear. God provides Abraham. Abraham provides his only Son Isaac. Isaac provides a lineage to Jesus. Jesus pays the ultimate sacrifice for the World.
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