Bible on the Road – Isaac and Jesus

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See Genesis 22:1-19

Christians look upon the story of Abraham and Isaac as a profound allegory for the sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross. The similarities were many. First, Jesus, like Isaac, was a faithful father’s only beloved son. Again like Isaac, Jesus carried uphill the wood for His own sacrifice, which would be consummated on a hill in Jerusalem. In fact, the site where Jesus died, Calvary, was one of the hillocks on Moriah’s range.

Moreover, the very first line of the New Testament identifies Jesus with Isaac as “the son of Abraham” (Mt 1:1). To Christian readers, even Abraham’s words proved prophetic.

Recall that there was no punctuation in the Hebrew original, and consider an alternate reading of verse 8: “God will provide Himself, the Lamb, for a burnt offering.” The Lamb foreshadowed, of course, was Jesus Christ, God Himself—“that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the gentiles” (Gal 3:14; see also Gn 22:16–18).

God provides all the needs of sustenance to His children. The three greatest needs of man are oxygen, water and food. God provides Himself to meet all three of these basic and critical human needs. He Himself is the food we eat that sustains us – “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’” John 6:51. He is the drink that refreshes and revitalizes us – “The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” John 4:14. He is the very air we breath – “then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being” John 2:7 and “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit” John 20:22

Come to the feast God sets before you and never hunger, never thirst again. Never be short of breath.