Question:
The Lord said in John
Answer:
Two answers were given: 1 – Isaac represents Jesus because he was the only son of Abraham and willingly obeyed his father. 2 – The ram represents Jesus because he was substituted for Isaac. We began to explore both answers. 1. Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (Genesis 21:5). Most writers say that Isaac was a young man when this incident occurred. We learned that Isaac probably could have stopped his father from offering him as a sacrifice, but he willingly obeyed his father. Jesus, Himself, was obedient unto death (Philippians 2:5-8), so Isaac is a good type of Christ here. The question was asked, “Why did God refer to Isaac as his only son, when Abraham had another son, Ishmael?” Through discussion, we learned that Isaac was the son of promise, and he was the one that God recognized as His own promise to Abraham. We read Proverbs 8:22-31 to show that Jesus was the daily delight of His Father, even as Isaac was the daily delight of Abraham. In Hebrews 11:17, we see that Isaac is called his father’s “only begotten son.” The only other person referred to as an “only begotten son” is Jesus Himself (John 2. While on the way to make the sacrifice, Isaac asked his father where the sacrifice was. Abraham responded that “God will provide Himself a lamb.” We read in John 1: 29,36 that John the Baptist, upon seeing Jesus, declared that He was “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” So, we recognized that both Isaac and the ram were “types” of Jesus. We also looked at the first type of Jesus in the Bible when God killed animals to cover the nakedness (sin) of Adam and Eve (Genesis