Jesus in Genesis: Binding of Issac and Issac's Wife
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The Binding of Issac
Promised child is here!
After all the chaos…
Then God asks the impossible.
1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Tempt: does not mean the same today...
Test, try, prove, essay (to establish content)
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
After all the years of Abraham making the wrong decisions, HE FINALLY GOT THIS ONE RIGHT!
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
Substitutionary death!
Jehovah-jireh: The Lord sees/provides
NT account of Abraham and the binding of Issac:
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Accounted as righteous!
Issac’s wife: Rebecca
2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Canaanites were a wicked and perverted people.
Many would be destroyed in the years to come, Israel could NOT marry into perversion!
14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Happens immediately
God provides a wife...
Compare another story: Woman at the well
John 4
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
This well was in Samaria, a place where Jews did not go...
Compare: Two women were found at this same well, thousands of years apart
Abraham’s servant found a pure blooded, chaste young lady - chosen by God.
Jesus found an foreigner, impure woman living in sin
Same question is asked: give me a drink!
In John, start talking about geography.
Does it matter where you worship, or where you are from?
Jesus answers that it’s not about geography but truth and spirit!
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
What’s the point of these two situations with so many mirror aspect?
Just as God orchestrate the marriage of Issac and Rebecca, he is as intentional in orchestrating the marriage between himself and his bride.
Everyone is welcome in his NT family… the geographically distant and the morally distant has a into his NT family.
Not just the pure, godly people like Rebecca
But the outcast, impure people like this messed up woman at the well!