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The Father and the Son
“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” (Genesis 22:2).
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son” (Hebrews 11:17).
This story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most beautiful foreshadowings of God the Father and His Son the Lord Jesus going to the cross, and the Son being offered as the true burnt offering. It is summed up by these wonderful words: “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world” (1 John 4:14). “Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor” (Ephesians 5:2).
Today we remember that atoning work, realizing that for Isaac there was a substitute, “a ram caught in a thicket by his horns” (Genesis 22:13). However, for the Lord Jesus there was no substitute, He “offered Himself without spot to God” (Hebrews 9:14).
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