Read Gen. 22:1-9
God told Abraham to take his much-loved son, Isaac to the land of Moriah which means “my teacher is Jehovah”. When God is our teacher he is the one who has the right to test us which is what he is doing with Abraham. He has taught him how to trust him and now he is getting the test. If he passes he will be promoted to the next level. He is to go to the land of Moriah and offer Isaac as a burnt offering on the mountain that God shows him. I cannot imagine what was going through Abraham’s mind but he obeyed at once. He got up early the next morning, took 2 young men (no doubt, that he was mentoring) and some wood and started on his journey. On the 3rd day… everything in the Bible seems to happen “on the 3rd day”. It is because on the 3rd day God created plants that had seed. The seed would produce from the fruit to make other seed. So on the 3rd day the fruit gets tested to see if it will conform to the seed. God had planted his seed in Abraham and his fruit was being tested. On the 3rd day Abraham saw the mountain that God wanted him to sacrifice Isaac on. He left the 2 men at the bottom and told them that just he and Isaac would go and worship then come back. Isaac had to carry his own wood up the mountain just as Jesus carried his own cross. Abraham took a lit torch and a knife. Abraham stood for God, the lit torch stood for the Holy Spirit and the knife stood for the Word of God. All these accompanied Jesus to the cross. When Isaac asked his father where the sacrifice was Abraham told him that God would provide himself a lamb which is exactly what God did. God himself became the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the earth.
Lord, we can’t even begin to understand your thoughts because they are too high for us, but we love your mysterious ways.
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