Isaac & Jesus
As mentioned previously, Isaac the son of Abraham nearly died at the
hand of his father, Abraham in Genesis 22:
6And Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the
fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8And Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together.
9And they came to the place which God
had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order,
and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
and took the knife to slay his son.
11And the angel of the LORD called unto
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12And 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.
13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son.
14And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it
shall be seen.
15And the angel of the LORD called unto
Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son:
17That in blessing I will bless thee,
and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies;
18And in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (KJV)
Isaac was spared, but God always intended someone to take
his place. Jesus was a direct descendent of Abraham through King David, on his
mother’s side. The father of Jesus is God himself, Abraham’s best friend. This
would be the same God who orchestrated the promise of Genesis 22, which means
that one day, God would provide a way for the promise to ultimately come to
fruition. This meant that someone was going to have to be sacrificed on Mount
Moriah.
Before that could happen that someone, Jesus, had to be
anointed in such a way that he could take Isaac’s place as the firstborn son of
Abraham. And guess what? That’s what John did!
What was the baptism of John? What was it specifically
that he was doing at the Jordan River?
Next time...when Pagans convert to Judaism...
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