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The Setting
By the time we come to chapter 22, many years have passed.
Abraham and Sarah had finally settled in.
Their days of wandering about and living in makeshift tents were over.
Isaac was becoming a young man now.
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>>Is testing the same as tempting?
Look at ; 16:4
God does not tempt anyone to do evil (see note on ); he does, however, test the commitment of people (e.g., ; ).
>>God tested Abraham’s faith.
Is it good to have your faith tested?
Look at
The implication of God testing Abraham is that he gives the patriarch an opportunity to demonstrate his faith.
A purely theoretical faith is inferior to a faith that has been tested and tried through the experiences of life.
No hint that Abraham might fail the test arises in this story.
In Jewish thought, Abraham’s binding of Isaac became the supreme example of faithful obedience and self-sacrifice to God and is expressed in .
For this to happen, God had to be able not only to resurrect Isaac from the dead, but also to reconstitute him from the ashes of being offered as a burnt offering.
The Possible Connections of the Location
Although not spelled out specifically, According to , Solomon constructed the temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem where Yahweh appeared to David on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
While does not specify that the sacrifice of Isaac took place at or near Jerusalem, v. 14 possibly implies such a connection.
Today Abraham’s rock is covered by the ‘Dome of the Rock’ Mosque in Jerusalem.
>>”Take your son, your only son, whom you love…”, sound familiar with any particular NT verse?
>>what about Ishmael?
Why did God say “your only son”?
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>>what about Ishmael?
Why did God say “your only son”?
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>>what about Ishmael?
Why did God say “your only son”?
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Since Isaac is not Abraham’s only son (he had Ishmael by Hagar earlier; 16:11–16), the Hebrew text here is referring to value, not number.
Isaac is Abraham’s special son—through him the covenant promises with God will be passed on (17:21).
>>Have you ever thought of Isaac here?
Could he have prevented being tied up?
He was likely in his mid to late teens (strong enough to carry wood up a mountain).
The implication of God testing Abraham is that he gives the patriarch an opportunity to demonstrate his faith.
A purely theoretical faith is inferior to a faith that has been tested and tried through the experiences of life.
No hint that Abraham might fail the test arises in this story.
In Jewish thought, Abraham’s binding of Isaac became the supreme example of faithful obedience and self-sacrifice to God and is expressed in .
For this to happen, God had to be able not only to resurrect Isaac from the dead, but also to reconstitute him from the ashes of being offered as a burnt offering.
>>Have you ever thought of Isaac here?
Could he have prevented being tied up?
He was likely in his mid to late teens (strong enough to carry wood up a mountain).
Isaac as a Type of Christ
What does it mean to be a type of Christ?
When we say that someone is a type of Christ, we are saying that a person in the Old Testament behaves in a way that corresponds to Jesus’ character or actions in the New Testament.
When we say that something is “typical” of Christ, we are saying that an object or event in the Old Testament can be viewed as representative of some quality of Jesus.
Thus Jesus, like Isaac, is described as a son, and the Father willingly sacrificed him (; ; ).
Isaac is described as Abraham’s only son, but the Hebrew yachid should be translated “unique.”
(Also “only” is not a suitable translation because Ishmael also was a son of Abraham.)
refers to Isaac with the Greek term monogenēs, which is the same word found in , ; , ; describing Jesus—above all, this term refers to uniqueness.
Just as Isaac was the object of his father’s love, so too Jesus is described as the object of His Father’s love (; ).
Also the name Isaac, like the name Jesus, was chosen by God and not the parents (; ).
This too was an extremely rare occurrence in Scripture.
What are some other examples of types of Christ in the OT?
A few: Adam, Joseph, the Ark, the brazen serpent, David
Let’s move to :
Verse 4 makes note of it being the third day when he’s ready to encounter God.
Perhaps this sets the pattern for the significance of the third day elsewhere.
Compare ; ; and
>>Verse 5 Abraham says “WE will return to you.”
What can you gather from that?
(Make a note here on importance of looking at different translations when studying as ESV does not use word “we”
>>In Verse 8 a substitute is provided.
What’s the significance of that for us today?
22:8 Isaac comes near to being sacrificed, but God provides a substitute.
Ultimately God will sacrifice his only Son, who dies in our place.
The ram prefigures the sacrifice of Christ.
>>In verses 9-10 Consider that Abraham certainly had some sins in his past, just like us.
But his desire to go through with the sacrifice of his son is a lesson for all of us.
What is it?
That is true obedience: doing as God says, even when we don’t have all the details—and even when God’s instructions don’t make sense.
Is there a situation like that in your life right now?
Abraham, amazingly, obeyed God.
But the question is, “Why?” Was he just morally good-natured?
No. We’ve already seen what kind of a sinner he was.
So how does a sinner like Abraham come to a place where he is able to obey God so steadfastly in such a difficult situation?
By faith!
By believing that God, not Abraham, knows best!
Abraham believed God would do what he said he would do.
And when hope seemed lost, Abraham thought deeper and deeper about the God he served until his hope was restored.
Do you have that kind of faith in God?
Let’s move to :
Draw a comparison to Verse 12 and .
What is it?
22:12 now I know that you fear God.
Abraham’s action confirms his faithful obedience to God.
While Abraham’s faith was earlier the means by which God counted him as righteous (15:6), that faith is now “active along with his works,” and the faith is “completed by his works” (), so that his faith resulted in obedience, which is its expected outcome.
On God’s knowledge, see note on .
22:13 behind him was a ram.
Although Abraham has passed the test, God provides a ram so that it may be sacrificed as a burnt offering.
In Genesis such sacrifices are associated with solemn promises made by God (see 8:20–22).
instead of his son.
The fact that a ram died in the place of Isaac has led many Christian interpreters to see introduced here the principle of substitutionary atonement, which would later become a reality in the substitutionary sacrificial death of Christ on the cross, as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” ().
22:14 Echoing Abraham’s earlier comment to Isaac in v. 8, the location is named The Lord will provide.
On the basis of this, the belief developed (as it is said to this day) that God would provide the sacrifice necessary to atone for sin. the mount of the Lord.
This probably denotes the hill on which the temple was later built in Jerusalem (see ). “The mount of the Lord” is Mount Moriah and this very mountain, where these events occurred, would later become the temple mount.
The offering on Mount Moriah is a vivid “shadow” of God the Father’s “provision” of the one and only sacrifice that could ever take away sin: the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus the Messiah, the “seed” of Abraham
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