I heard a teaching that ancient hebrews had an understanding and ritual for a covenant in which something was offered but the other party would bring a replacement offering. And so Abraham would have understood this was such a covenant ritual and that God would provide the replacement sacrifice. A foreshadowing of Jesus.
This one has always made me scratch my head, God would never ask someone to sacrifice their child, test or otherwise. It goes against nature and everything that we know as morally conscious.
I think the best way to understand this is to use another portion of scripture such as Hebrews 11:19...
He (Abraham) considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type. (Hebrews 11:19, NASB)
It helps us understand many things like - Abraham believed God’s promise would be kept in spite of death as well as foreshadowing that God would one day sacrifice His Son and no substitute ram would be supplied at the last moment!
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Death is no problem for Him and those whose faith (not religion) is in Him.
There’s also much in the Bible we need to be ware of and use our discernment. The KJV was sponsored by no other than the Rothschild family 🤡🌎 look it up:)
[17] By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, [18] of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” [19] He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
I think the biggest hurdle for me to get over in the Bible is the 17 years of Jesus’ life not recorded or should I say “left out”. From 12-about 29 yrs old the Bible says, “He grew in wisdom and stature”. I would venture to say that Jesus, Son of God didn’t hang out in his place of birth and grow in anonymity. Ask a pastor this question, I have; the response is clearly their reaction to the lie they’ve been fed. Now ancient tablets are being discovered that puts Yeshua(Jesus) in India and China and many other far reaching lands during this time of “growth and wisdom”
I pondered as a 14 year old, all the way to age 46, when I got it.
That a father would have his son carry the wood for his own sacrifice - to the top of Mt. Moriah - and incorporate a Ram, caught in a thicket of thorns, to become (once God described the Day of Atonement/Scapegoat when He gave the Feasts/law to Moses) a substitute for Isaac, well, that was just too many types & shadows for me having once been an English Major. Then, reading the Church Fathers, they had sorted through much of this. Could the Crown of thorns, woven by Roman soldiers for Christ “the King” have come from that thicket in which the substitutionary Ram that took Isaac’s place? In the same general vicinity as Calvary? And that test that some of the tribal leaders put to Moses in questioning Moses’ leadership, in which the wooden rods of the leaders would be left overnight in a room for inspection the next morning? Wasn’t it God who showed us, in Numbers, that Aaron’s Rod blossomed, producing flowers and almonds - a sign to all, that God has always had the power to bring forth new life…from dead wood. Atop Mt. Calvary, years after trusting Isaac obeyed his father, when Christ accepted His substituting for us - if we believe as the thief on the cross did - and trusted His Heavenly Father and we know that God, again, brought new life from dead wood, on the Cross, a tree.
Finally, I had to ask myself, did Isaac redeem/save himself? By virtue of his faith in his earthly father? Or was it Abraham’s faith that redeemed/saved Isaac? I answered myself - God is the Great Redeemer. After God redeemed Adam & Eve, an innocent animal had to shed its blood so that God could cover their nakedness with animal skins. When the Ark rested atop Ararat, Noah blessed God with the sacrifice of another innocent animal. God redeemed 8 from the flood. God redeemed Isaac through the blood of an innocent animal, and we believers through the blood of an innocent Christ.
For it is by Grace ye have been saved. Not of works, lest any man should boast. It is a free gift.
Praise God for leading sons to the foot of Mt. Moriah sitting on a donkey, for carrying the dead wood for their own sacrifice on the top, for God’s Grace in providing a substitute for Isaac and for humanity …if individuals believe & accept the free gift. Praise God for raising Jesus from the dead, & bruising Satan’s head.
I heard a teaching that ancient hebrews had an understanding and ritual for a covenant in which something was offered but the other party would bring a replacement offering. And so Abraham would have understood this was such a covenant ritual and that God would provide the replacement sacrifice. A foreshadowing of Jesus.
This one has always made me scratch my head, God would never ask someone to sacrifice their child, test or otherwise. It goes against nature and everything that we know as morally conscious.
I think the best way to understand this is to use another portion of scripture such as Hebrews 11:19...
He (Abraham) considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type. (Hebrews 11:19, NASB)
It helps us understand many things like - Abraham believed God’s promise would be kept in spite of death as well as foreshadowing that God would one day sacrifice His Son and no substitute ram would be supplied at the last moment!
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Death is no problem for Him and those whose faith (not religion) is in Him.
There’s also much in the Bible we need to be ware of and use our discernment. The KJV was sponsored by no other than the Rothschild family 🤡🌎 look it up:)
I do the same! And, yes, once there, it won't even matter to us anymore. 👍🌸
Same, we either won’t care or we’ll just know🙏 God bless
Hebrews 11:17-19
[17] By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, [18] of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” [19] He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
Hebrews 11
I think the biggest hurdle for me to get over in the Bible is the 17 years of Jesus’ life not recorded or should I say “left out”. From 12-about 29 yrs old the Bible says, “He grew in wisdom and stature”. I would venture to say that Jesus, Son of God didn’t hang out in his place of birth and grow in anonymity. Ask a pastor this question, I have; the response is clearly their reaction to the lie they’ve been fed. Now ancient tablets are being discovered that puts Yeshua(Jesus) in India and China and many other far reaching lands during this time of “growth and wisdom”
I pondered as a 14 year old, all the way to age 46, when I got it.
That a father would have his son carry the wood for his own sacrifice - to the top of Mt. Moriah - and incorporate a Ram, caught in a thicket of thorns, to become (once God described the Day of Atonement/Scapegoat when He gave the Feasts/law to Moses) a substitute for Isaac, well, that was just too many types & shadows for me having once been an English Major. Then, reading the Church Fathers, they had sorted through much of this. Could the Crown of thorns, woven by Roman soldiers for Christ “the King” have come from that thicket in which the substitutionary Ram that took Isaac’s place? In the same general vicinity as Calvary? And that test that some of the tribal leaders put to Moses in questioning Moses’ leadership, in which the wooden rods of the leaders would be left overnight in a room for inspection the next morning? Wasn’t it God who showed us, in Numbers, that Aaron’s Rod blossomed, producing flowers and almonds - a sign to all, that God has always had the power to bring forth new life…from dead wood. Atop Mt. Calvary, years after trusting Isaac obeyed his father, when Christ accepted His substituting for us - if we believe as the thief on the cross did - and trusted His Heavenly Father and we know that God, again, brought new life from dead wood, on the Cross, a tree.
Finally, I had to ask myself, did Isaac redeem/save himself? By virtue of his faith in his earthly father? Or was it Abraham’s faith that redeemed/saved Isaac? I answered myself - God is the Great Redeemer. After God redeemed Adam & Eve, an innocent animal had to shed its blood so that God could cover their nakedness with animal skins. When the Ark rested atop Ararat, Noah blessed God with the sacrifice of another innocent animal. God redeemed 8 from the flood. God redeemed Isaac through the blood of an innocent animal, and we believers through the blood of an innocent Christ.
For it is by Grace ye have been saved. Not of works, lest any man should boast. It is a free gift.
Praise God for leading sons to the foot of Mt. Moriah sitting on a donkey, for carrying the dead wood for their own sacrifice on the top, for God’s Grace in providing a substitute for Isaac and for humanity …if individuals believe & accept the free gift. Praise God for raising Jesus from the dead, & bruising Satan’s head.