by
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.
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
….
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
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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