(Genesis 22:1-3) After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac.
This i an incredible story of faith from Abraham. Here after all these years waiting for the promised son, Abraham cherishes Isaac and the next thing you know God is telling him to offer him as a burnt sacrifice. What's going on? What is God thinking by planning to have this miracle child killed? Those must have been questions Abraham asked. But instead of questioning God's plans, he humbly submitted and obeyed. Now of course Abraham dodnt kill Isaac, God provided a sacrifice once he was about to offer Isaac, but the fact that he was willing to do WHATEVER to please God is amazing. We find out in Hebrews 11 that he trusted that if God had to raise Isaac up from the dead, He would be faithful and figuratively speaking he did recieve him back from the dead. It's particularly amazing that Abraham would have thought that God would raise Isaac fron the dead if he had to because there are no recordings of resurrections before Abraham; that would have been the first. So Abraham was basically saying, "I don't know how in the worl God gunna make this one work, but I know that even if He has resurrect the dead to make it happen - which I've never seen before -He will be faithful to do it. I trust in Jehovah."
This i an incredible story of faith from Abraham. Here after all these years waiting for the promised son, Abraham cherishes Isaac and the next thing you know God is telling him to offer him as a burnt sacrifice. What's going on? What is God thinking by planning to have this miracle child killed? Those must have been questions Abraham asked. But instead of questioning God's plans, he humbly submitted and obeyed. Now of course Abraham dodnt kill Isaac, God provided a sacrifice once he was about to offer Isaac, but the fact that he was willing to do WHATEVER to please God is amazing. We find out in Hebrews 11 that he trusted that if God had to raise Isaac up from the dead, He would be faithful and figuratively speaking he did recieve him back from the dead. It's particularly amazing that Abraham would have thought that God would raise Isaac fron the dead if he had to because there are no recordings of resurrections before Abraham; that would have been the first. So Abraham was basically saying, "I don't know how in the worl God gunna make this one work, but I know that even if He has resurrect the dead to make it happen - which I've never seen before -He will be faithful to do it. I trust in Jehovah."