The prefigure of lifting up Isaac: Jesus in the OT

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Apokalupto: The prophetic prefigure of lifting up Isaac.
God will provide Himself a lamb.

Genesis 22:2 says "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."

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Isaac the promised son who came into the world because of Gods miraculous intervention on behalf of Sarah when He visited her so she could conceive was a foreshadow of Jesus, the only begotten son of the Father - the first begotten from the resurrection, the beginning of the first fruits of the New Testament.

1Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Act of the Apostles 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Jesus was not the first person to come back to life, even Jesus raised Lazarus who was 4 days in the tomb, but He was the first begotten from the dead, the firstfruits of the New Testament.

The phrase "offer him there" in Hebrew means "lift him up" or mount (upon the altar) Isaac was to be "lifted up" to be offered.- Jesus shows us the imagery and purpose of his appending suffering in the gospel.

And not just that He would be lifted up, but why, for what?

Israel had sinned against God in the desert so He sent serpents in their midst and they bit them, and killed them, and God commanded that a brass serpent be raised onto a pole, and any who merely looked on it were healed of the deathly poison without the law and without priests, for they had sinned, foreshadowing the faith in the one who takes on the sins of the world onto the cross with Him.

1. They sinned,
2. they were judged with poisonous serpents because of their sin,
3. they were healed from the judgment of serpents by looking at the serpent on the pole.
4. Conclusion: those who don’t believe that their sin was raised up onto the cross have no forgiveness of the poison that kills forever.

Numbers 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.

Acts of the Apostles 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

The father puts the wood on his son Isaacs back, as Christ, the Son of God was obedient, carrying His own cross to His death.

Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

In both verse 6 and 8 it repeats how Isaac and his father “went both of them together.” The Father is with the Son.

John 8:28-29: “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." This is the obedience of Isaac to his father, even to death as a sacrifice.

Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Before Abraham slays his only son, the angel of the LORD comes and tells him he does not have to, and that he knows Abraham fears God.

Genesis 22:13 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. (in the stead of his son)

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

But it was a ram that was offered, signifying that there was two things needful, one, a sacrifice in the stead of another, and two, that God will provide himself a lamb, not a ram, indicating a future expectation for that lamb that was not given here.

And whose horns in the thicket show us of Christs crown of thorns before His crucifixion.

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Genesis 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: (Even though Ishmael was Abrahams first born-this is a figure of the two covenants)
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Because of obedience this blessing was given, and so it was with Christs obedience unto the cross that the world is blessed through Him, all who look upon Him “In faith” making spiritual sons and daughters of the whole world unto God by his sacrifice, even the cross, Moses serpent on the pole.

Christians didn’t come along after Jesus and invent some idea of “Jesus similarities.” Jesus made it plain that He came to fulfill all things according to the holy scriptures.

-all things-

And just as the lamb was slain and eaten and its blood put on the cross beams of their doors in Egypt had came first before the law, so Christ came to put His blood on the door post of our hearts by His death on the Cross, then secondly the King shall come in power and glory after this fact, just as Moses was later their leader with the law and with power. The spiritual comes first, then the physical. The scriptures are consistent – always. All things are going to be fulfilled.

Not just “Messianic prophecies” which was an invented terminology that causes confusion and limits the understanding of what Messiah was do and be. In truth, all of the word of God, every book of the OT is Messianic to Jesus. He uses the Jewish all encompassing terminology for the scriptures, the Law of Moses (Torah) the psalms (The writings) and the prophets.

Luke 24:44 And he (Jesus) said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

Jesus applied all of it to himself and said that it must be fulfilled in Him. His glory was far greater than they all thought, and He fulfills every expectation that was laid out so many times in the Tanakh which no man could do in the stead of another but the Son of God only.

Jesus has shown us that His purpose is far bigger than we ever first imagined.

A pattern repeated so often in so many different ways is not a similarity, it is a concrete message. A similarity is what toddlers look for in shapes when they’re developing their spongy brains.

But the scriptures show a message, being laid down so concretely, on every angle, by every perspective, showing an earnest expectation for a future perfect fulfillment, else, if its message had been complete and its glory fully manifest and its purpose come, then there would not have been any further need for this repetition of the sacrifice to continue on and on etc - which this never ending repetition intrinsically reveals a need that’s not being fully furnished and sufficiently satisfied, - and because of this it is “naturally” prophetic in two ways.

One: As pointed out, the repetition shows an expectation for another sacrifice in the future.
Two: After the sacrifice is made there is the expectation of a blessing that must follow because of it.

This symbol reaches itself into Isaiah the fifty third chapter, a very detailed example of this suffering and sacrificial object is not a different story than the lamb, it’s the same one, and as the narrative goes, the lamb doesn’t suffer “because” of you, it suffers “in stead” of you, in place of you, you’re blessed in some way because it dies, the symbol oft repeated, the figure that was so elegantly foretelling us in all the previous chapters, is the same idea here and is but yet another variant.

So Christians, if anyone ever tells you that some word in the “original Hebrew” in Isaiah 53 doesn’t mean what you think it means, or in any book of the Bible for that matter, you can know with certainly the purpose of His plan and there is no need to doubt His-very-own-story.

The narrative is unbeatable, because God has laid out a reoccurring message that no “mistranslated word” or two can retell or reshape. – it is but a distraction argument.

Here is the unbroken structure found in His word: Something else suffers or dies, and you are blessed for it in some way.

The structure is never: Something suffers or dies because someone treated It wrongly and then full stop without any blessing or good coming from it.

There is always a positive outcome, or blessing, and even salvation on the other side.

Here is the Gods message that the sacrifice of the lamb always bestows good upon another.

1. God provides an animal covering because mine fails: God makes coats of animal skins for Adam & Eve because their own fig leaf aprons were a failure.
2. Gods acceptance: God had respect unto Abels lamb sacrifice.
3. The desperate need for a substitution: The binding of Isaac, & the ram was put in his stead.
4. Blessing: Jacob wears goat skins and was able to get his father Isaacs blessing.
5. The need to cover up sin: Joseph’s brothers sold him into Egypt and killed a lamb on Josephs coat, whose bloody raiment served as a cover for their sin, so their “FATHER” wouldn’t know to punish them.

The symbol gets more complex and the figure shifts primarily from animals to people, like with Isaac.

6. The need for physical salvation and deliverance: Because Joseph suffered (now acting as the lamb itself) by the hand of his brothers and sold to Egypt he was given the opportunity to be made second to Pharaoh in power and Israel was able to be preserved by a great deliverance because this. Gen 45:5-7

We’ll call it day here.

Not a single one of these symbols dare lacks a blessing or some great good comes from it for someone. One of the greatest examples of this blessing is the story of Abraham and Isaac, particularly because of obedience the world was to be blessed through him.

Only Jesus Christ and His sacrifice can fulfill this great need.

Jesus said something interesting about Abraham

John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

When did Abraham "see" the day of Jesus?

John 8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Before the naming of Isaac Jesus was there.

Abraham saw Jesus face to face in the plains of Mamre in Genesis 19, and furthermore he unknowingly saw the day of Jesus sacrifice too when he lifted up Isaac on the alter.

And he was glad, he didnt have to sacrifice his own son, it was said that God would provide Himself a “lamb.”

Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.
Hebrews 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.



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