Monday, July 25, 2016

‘Resurrection’ of Isaac


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Damien F. Mackey

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Dr. Ernest Martin had observed in Secrets of Golgotha (1987), Abraham well knew that, were he to sacrifice his “only son”, Isaac, in obedience to the Lord’s command, then the Lord would have to resurrect the boy in order to fulfil his promise to Abraham.

 

 

 

 

The Promise re Isaac: Genesis 17:19: ‘You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.

 

Obviously that Promise could not be fulfilled if the young Isaac, at that stage lacking in any “descendants” were to be removed permanently from this earth.

 

In faith, Abraham promptly obeyed the Divine command (22:3-4): “Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

And animated by faith (v. 5): “He said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” It is apparent from this statement of Abraham’s that he fully intended to return to his servants along with his son, Isaac. No matter what would happen in the meantime.

 

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Dr. Martin had made this point that Abraham had expected to return with his son. He also drew some striking parallels between Isaac and Jesus, which others have done as well, e.g. this article (http://www.confidentfaith.net/jesus-and-isaac-divine-similarities):

 

Jesus and Isaac: Divine Similarities


 

March 12, 2015

Posted by Timothy

 

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God is in complete control of human history. God foreshadows events down to the smallest of details and some of the events are separated by 2,000 years. That is pretty amazing. Let’s look at a very interesting example of this.

 

 

The Story of Abraham and Isaac               The story of God the Father and God the Son

 

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Isaac’s question, ‘where is the lamb’ (Genesis 22:7) would echo down through the centuries, until the Baptist’s ‘Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’ (John 1:29).

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