Father where is the lamb

Laughter grew, Ishmael grew, and Sarah saw Ishmael picking on her son Laughter. So away went Ishmael, but Laughter Isaac , the child of promise, remained. All was settled, and Abraham could live out his life in Beersheba on the edge of the desert.

Those two verses make my stomach turn. It has appalled Jews and Christians for centuries. Abraham did not argue with God, or put it off. Verse 3: So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. They headed north through sparsely populated hills, toward the hill where Solomon later built the Temple.

Now listen to the next sentence. I am going to ask you to use your imaginations. Jonah was in the fish three days. Jesus was in his tomb for three days. Imagine the three days of agony and death Abraham felt as they went. The first night came, and they camped. Laughter went to sleep. The men watched for lions. Abraham looked at the stars, more than any of us have ever seen. What did God promise? Would God give him another son? No, God had said that Isaac was the child of promise.

Another problem. Abraham, like his fathers back to Noah, worshiped God with animal sacrifices. But when they moved to Canaan, they found Canaanites worshiping by sacrificing their sons and daughters. It even made sense: how could the blood of sheep and goats take away sin? So I imagine Abraham finally going to sleep, full of love for his son, but ready to obey God and sacrifice him. The next day they traveled on, tired old Abraham riding the donkey, the young servants striding along, and Isaac running ahead and laughing.

He was on an adventure. The second night came. Imagine Abraham again gazing at the stars, thinking and praying. How could God keep his promises if Isaac were dead?

There was only one answer: God would have to bring Isaac back from the dead. John As the apostle Paul assures us, God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all in order that He might also with Him freely give us all things Rom The testing of Abraham, reported in Genesis 22, memorializes for all time the price of our redemption through the grieving yet faithful heart of a father and the obedient heart of his son.

It is a human drama that invites all of us into a deeper appreciation of the priceless cost of free grace. It expresses the abstract theology of substitutionary atonement in flesh and blood reality. Redemption is portrayed in terms so striking that any parent and any child can comprehend the love of a father for his son or a son for his father.

The binding of Isaac for the sacrifice is a dramatic preview of the whole Gospel. Abraham fully expected to lose his beloved son to death, but there is something curious about his statement to the two young men who accompanied Isaac but who were instructed to stay behind with the donkey.

The author of Hebrews tells us that Abraham expected to sacrifice his son and to receive him back from death Heb. The sacrifice of Isaac is the foretelling of the Gospel, all in unmistakable detail. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Matthew ,42 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt …. John Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

Romans For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Genesis And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. Genesis And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground…. Genesis And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Exodus Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:.

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