Sunday, September 14, 2008

Jehova Jireh - The Lord Will Provide

God went through an experience with Abraham that God would also go through Himself
2000 years later.

Genesis:
22Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."
2 Then He said, "Take now 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."
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the [fn1] lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!"
And he said, "Here I am, my son."
Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
So he said, "Here I am."
12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."

The burnt offering was entirely for God.

Hebrews 11:
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 [fn4] of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called," 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

Genesis 22 is an illustration of what God would suffer 2000 years later. God asked Abraham to give up his only son. Yet in vs. 5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the [fn1] lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."

Abraham believed God’s promise that he would make him the father of many nations. He believed that God would raise Isaac up and that they both would be returning.
Give me the son you love. Abraham was experiencing a revelation of God, himself.
The thought of resurrection gave him hope.

God allowed Abraham and his son in Genesis 22 to go through what God went through with his Son.

Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, [fn2] The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

There was a tender bond between Abraham and his son. There was an intimate relationship with the Father and His Son.
“Where is the lamb? God will provide a lamb for the offering”
God and Son would provide a sacrifice for men.
Isaac carried the wood; Jesus carried His cross and was nailed to the cross between two thieves. When Abraham put Isaac on the wood, God stopped him. Jehova Jireh – God will provide. God made a provision for sin. He kept us free from judgment and able to go on to glory; to become a child of God and have intimacy with God. The barrier was removed between men and God.

God loved us so that he sent His Son that we would have life.
Glory to God!

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