Significance and Foreshadowing of Abraham's sacrifice of his only son

[hlgomez]

I would like to make another thread on this particular event in history. This discussion was from the other thread and would like to discuss with muslims on this forum on the significance of Abaham’s sacrifice of his only son. I’m not going to debate whether it was Ishmael or Isaac, but on the importance and foreshadowing of the event. Here are some of the facts:

Abraham is to sacrifice his only beloved son.
God the Father is to sacrifice his Only Beloved Son.

Isaac, according to the Bible, carried the wood up to the mountain.
Jesus Christ carried the wooden cross up to the mountain where he is going to be crucified.

Abraham was asked by his son who will be sacrificed, and he replied; “God himself will provide the sacrifice.”
God the Father ultimately fulfilled this, not thru the sacrifice of the ram, but the sacrifice of His Only Son.

The place was called Mt. Moriah.
The place Jesus was crucified was the same mountain, Mt. Moriah.

Pio

 

[Timidity]

Abraham didn’t have an “only” son.

 

[JCPhoenix]

Timidity:

Abraham didn’t have an “only” son.

Yup, he did:

Genesis, 221-2:
"It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he called. “Here I am,’ he replied. ‘Take your son,’ God said 'your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land or Moriah. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering…”

At that time, Isaac WAS the only son of Abraham.

Now, back to the OP…I was not aware that the name of the mountain upon which Jesus was crucified was “Moriah”, as I have only heard it referred to as Cavalry or “Golgatha”, the place of the skull.

Where have you seen it called “Moriah”?

 

[Genesis315]

And the ram, the victim provided by God, had it’s head stuck in the thorns. Christ, the victim provided by God, had a crown of thorns stuck on His head.

 

[hlgomez]

And the ram, the victim provided by God, had it’s head stuck in the thorns. Christ, the victim provided by God, had a crown of thorns stuck on His head.

Another great typology! Praise be Isa Ibnu Allah!

Pio

 

[Reuben_J]

hlgomez:

I would like to make another thread on this particular event in history. This discussion was from the other thread and would like to discuss with muslims on this forum on the significance of Abaham’s sacrifice of his only son. I’m not going to debate whether it was Ishmael or Isaac, but on the importance and foreshadowing of the event. Here are some of the facts:

Abraham is to sacrifice his only beloved son.
God the Father is to sacrifice his Only Beloved Son.

Isaac, according to the Bible, carried the wood up to the mountain.
Jesus Christ carried the wooden cross up to the mountain where he is going to be crucified.

Abraham was asked by his son who will be sacrificed, and he replied; “God himself will provide the sacrifice.”
God the Father ultimately fulfilled this, not thru the sacrifice of the ram, but the sacrifice of His Only Son.

The place was called Mt. Moriah.
The place Jesus was crucified was the same mountain, Mt. Moriah.

Pio

I have to admit that the forshadowing of the near sacrifice of Abraham did not come across my mind as a Catholic. But it sure makes sense. God did prepare humankind of what’s coming and for the discerning, it all add up; the sacrifice of God’s only Son on the cross.

Yes about Mount Golgotha/Calvary. How is it connected to Mt. Moriah?

 

[hlgomez]

Yes about Mount Golgotha/Calvary. How is it connected to Mt. Moriah?

It is the very same mountain. Golgotha was the name of that part of Mt. Moriah where Jesus was crucified.

In the Bible, it was David’s intent to build a temple to the Lord on this property, on Mt. Moriah, however God chose Solomon for this task instead, after allowing David to amass the material resources that would be required. (I Chronciles 22ff, 1 Kings 5ff). Jesus was crucified outside of the location of this very same temple, but on the same mountain.

The topographic map shows that Mount Moriah is not a single peak, but an elongated ridge which commences to rise at its Southern end at the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom Valleys, at the original City of David, (elevation approximately 600 meters). The ridge then climbs in elevation to a maximum of 777 meters just Northeast of the present Damascus Gate of the Old City. The Temple Mount, prominent in most photos of Jerusalem occupies an area of about 45 acres. However the elevation of the bedrock outcropping on the Temple Mount within the Dome of the Rock Moslem shrine is only 741 meters.

There was a tradition current among the Jews that the skull of Adam, after having been confided by Noah to his son Shem, and by the latter to Melchisedech, was finally deposited at the place called, for that reason, Golgotha. The Talmudists and the Fathers of the Church were aware of this tradition, and it survives in the skulls and bones placed at the foot of the crucifix. The Evangelists are not opposed to it, inasmuch as they speak of one and not of many skulls. (Luke, Mark, John).

Pio