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ikely, the most well-known incident Note that the Lord said that the place
in the life of Isaac is that occasion where Abraham was to offer his son was
Lwhen the Lord asked Abraham to to be “upon one of the mountains which
take his beloved son to a mountain in the I will tell thee of” (Gen 22:2). The place
land of Moriah and there offer him for a where the Lord Jesus would offer Himself
burnt offering. The Lord had said to Abra- as a sacrifice for sin, Calvary’s mountain,
ham, “Take now thy son, thine only son was planned in the mind of God before
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the foundation of the world. Every minute
the land of Moriah; and offer him there for detail was divinely planned and divinely
a burnt offering” (Gen 22:2). fulfilled.
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Isaac was not Abraham’s only son, but The Lord constantly reminded the
he was the only son that was born as a people of Israel that they were not to offer
result of God’s promise. Isaac was also their sacrifices in every place but in the
the son through whom God would con- place of His choosing: “But in the place
firm and fulfil His promises to Abraham. which the LORD shall choose in one of
Isaac was unique, distinct and separate. thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt
The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews offerings, and there thou shalt do all that
wrote concerning the Lord Jesus, “[He] is I command thee” (Deu 12:14).
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from It is interesting to note as well that the
sinners” (Heb 7:26). writer of the epistle to the Hebrews re-
ferred to Abraham’s offering up of Isaac
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the in these words: “He that had received the
KJV. promises offered up his only begotten

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