Genesis Types and Shadows 7 ISAAC TYPIFIES JESUS

Genesis Types and Shadows #7 ISAAC TYPIFIES JESUS –PART 2

Before the Flood – Gen. 1 -5 The Flood – Gen. 6 -9 The Scattering of the People – Gen. 10 -11 The Patriarchs – Gen. 12 -50 PERIODS IN GENESIS Many types, shadows, prophecies of Jesus seen already

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 “Your only son” –v. 1 f A. The third day. v. 4 Isaac as good as dead for three days Given his life back on the third day Points to Jesus’ actual death for three days. Coincidence?

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 B. "We will come back to you". v. 5 He counted it easy to believe that God could raise Isaac from the dead. See Rom. 4: 20 -21; Heb. 11: 1719. His confidence was showing when he said "we will come back to you". Jesus used similar words. Matt. 16: 21; 17: 23; Jno. 14: 3; Acts 3: 26

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 C. ". . took the wood. . . laid it on Isaac his son". v. 6 Isaac was bearing the wood on which he would be offered. Tertullian wrote "An Answer To The Jews" in which he said, "Accordingly, to begin with, Isaac, when led by his father as a victim, and himself bearing his own "wood, " was even at that early period pointing to Christ's death; conceded, as He was, as a victim by the Father; carrying, as He did, the "wood" of His own passion. " (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III, p. 165).

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 C. ". . took the wood. . . laid it on Isaac his son". v. 6 Isaac was bearing the wood on which he would be offered. In "Tertullian Against Marcion" he said, "First, then, Isaac, when he was given up by his father as an offering, himself carried the wood for his own death. By this act he even then was setting forth the death of Christ, who was destined by His Father as a sacrifice, and carried the cross whereon He suffered. "(p. 336). Just a coincidental comparison? Or DESIGNED?

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 D. "God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering". v. 8 This statement was full of significance. Abraham said far more than he probably realized at the time. Indeed, God did provide for Himself the lamb. John must have seen this connection when he said "Behold, the lamb of God!" Jno. 1: 29, 36; Acts 8: 32 with Isa. 53; 1 Pet. 1: 18 -19; Rev. 5: 6, 12 -13; 12: 11

INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF CHRIST IN GENESIS 22 E. "In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided. " v. 14 After offering the ram (head of the sheep) as a substitute for Isaac, Abraham then named the place "The Lord Will Provide". The temple offerings were here at Moriah as was Jesus, the Ultimate SACRIFICE for sins, provided here by God. See II Chron. 3: 1; Matt. 16: 21; Jno. 19: 20. Oh, what great riches were provided there!

Can You See the Shadow of Christ? Is this just a strange test of Abraham? Is this a prophecy of Christ? Would the Jews have written this by human wisdom alone? Could the Jews have written this by human wisdom alone? Is a veil still on the hearts of people until they turn to Jesus Christ?