Genesis 22

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Genesis 22
1 After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. 2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee. 3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ***: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

Abraham was the father of faith. He did God’s will at all costs. And putting his faith to the test God was seeing how much a man would do for the love of God.

By willingly offering up his son Isaac, he was showing God the ultimate gift of true faith and love for God above all.

Genesis 22
8 And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together. 9 And they came to the place which God had shown him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood. 10 And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
11 And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. 12 And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

God foreknew He would be giving His only Son up for man - but would man give up their son for Him…

Genesis 22
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

Christ was pierced with the thorns …holding fast unto His head. To show Himself to the world He would not run from the holocaust offering.

Genesis 22
17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

So God allowed Abraham to be the father of His ppl…His ppl were to be of all nations thru Abraham’s blood line.

We are all blessed thru the line of Abraham’s son Isaac who was choosen to be the sacrifice…but that sacrifice was replaced by the Son of God.

This was a foreshadow of the Passion and death of His only begotten Son.

 

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We are all blessed thru the line of Abraham’s son Isaac who was choosen to be the sacrifice…but that sacrifice was replaced by the Son of God.

No Isaac was saved by the sacrifice of a ram. If it was to be the same, Jesus would not have died, an animal would have been sacrificed in his place.

But then again, Jesus was executed by Rome, so the sacrifice analogy is weak.

Keep looking up…

 

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No Isaac was saved by the sacrifice of a ram. If it was to be the same, Jesus would not have died, an animal would have been sacrificed in his place.

But then again, Jesus was executed by Rome, so the sacrifice analogy is weak.

Keep looking up…

The situations in the Bible all point prophetically to the Son of God’s life and death.
Otherwise it would have been moot point for God to make such a request - if it were not to provide a foreshadowing of the events to come in the Christ.

Nothing is simply black and white in the Bible…for all of it is the mytery of the life of the Son fo God to come. And ‘sacrifice’ God provided was also a foreshaowing of the thorns of the crown on Christ’s head.

Additionally, there is always a purpose behind God’s requests in the Bible. To show what is to come.
Isaac was spared, but it was thru the son Isaac that being spared - and saved - it would be through another sacrifice.

The ram couldn’t and didn’t suffice.
David tells us he would be waiting in sleep for the Messiah. IE - when Christ would come and open the doors to Heaven.

AS I said - the beloved son of Abraham for the sake of love for God - was actually a mirror to the true sacrifice of God’s only begotten beloved Son.

God didnt actually need Isaac to be sacrificed. It was just a point of reference to the testament of God’s LOVE for man - that He would take His only begotten Son Whom favored rested upon and offer Him up for the world.

 

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God didnt actually need Isaac to be sacrificed. It was just a point of reference to the testament of God’s LOVE for man - that He would take His only begotten Son Whom favored rested upon and offer Him up for the world.

I don’t think that Romans were doing any kind of ritual sacrifice. They could have I suppose in Roman religious ideas, but the Torah forbids human sacrifice, many times…

 

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And so it says
**~**Jesus~
Let those with eyes see, and those with ears hear.

Basically, God covered that. For the Jews didn’t technically sacrifice Him - they forced the issue onto the Romans to do so since it was Passover they couldn’t stone Him themselves…

Regardless if they didnt sacrifice humans [besides the times they slipped into paganism repeatedly and sacrificed to Molech at one time] BUT the fact of the matter is - to God in Heaven - this was set up so He could sacrifice Himself as the Passover Lamb.
[Its no mistake that He was crucified around this feast.]

You need to have eyes to see and ears to hear…
THE scriptures pointed to Him - every time.
God didnt have the prophets write ‘stories’ to make us say ‘How interesting.’
He did this to foreshadow the Christ.

Whether you call it a human sacrifice or not - all the same it was God’s sacrifice to humanity.

How else can we be saved? Being saved for this life??? But this life ends. So that would be moot point.

And do take note again of Genesis 22:18.
ALL NATIONS will be blessed by the line of Abraham [thru Isaac’s line]

Blessed - and saved - as in we can be forgiven our sins…and enter Heaven thru Him.

NOW - if you suggest animal sacrifices save your ppl [if Jewish] then the last 2000 years no one has been saved?
Has God ever been this silent in the scriptures?
Has He not given a prophet when He sees His ppl going astray?
And isnt true if a prophet were to come, they must write and speak in Hebrew to be considered true? See the Judiac council around AD 90-100.

And what about the verse in Gen 22:18…all nations will be blessed thru the line of Abraham.

As you can see - all the earth is Christian and has the Gospel…thru the line of Abraham and David.