Genesis

Chapter 22

• Gal 4:21-31Gal 4:28-31

• 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman." 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

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• Ishmael• Born of little faith &lust• The dust of the earth• Born of slavery• Hagar= earthly

Jerusalem• Wild & Persecutor•

• Isaac• Born by a promise

• The Star of heaven• Born in freedom• Sarah= Heavenly

Jerusalem• A peaceful man

• 1 Cor 15:46-50• 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and

afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

• Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

• Rom 9:6-8• But it is not that the word of God has taken no

effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7 nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called." 8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

• John 8:35-36

• 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

• Rom 8:15-17• 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage

again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out,"Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

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Gal 5:13-15• 13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty;

only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

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• Gen 22:1• Now it came to pass after these things that God tested AbrahamOT:5254• Hebrew:”nacah” (naw-saw'); a primitive root; to test; by implication, to attempt:• KJV - adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.• Abraham’s trials:• His Father in Haran. (Parents)• Famine in the promise land. (providence)• Egypt (fear)• Lot (Relatives)• The King of Sodom (Money)• Sarah and Hagar (Spouse)• Abemalek (Fear again)• Ishmael (Son)• Isaac (The beloved)

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• “But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to

• bear it” (1 Corinthians 10: 13).• He prepared his heart, his thought, and his whole life to• receive the temptation; He accompanied and supported

him as well, during the temptation in a secret way. • Therefore, before, during, and after every temptation,

God, Himself, will support us, in order to realize His goal in us, if we accept His work in our lives.

• Deut 8:2-5• 2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the

way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

• The Trial of thirst• The Trial of food

• Prov 17:3• 3 The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for

gold, But the LORD tests the hearts. • James 1:2-4• My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into

various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

• James 1:12-15• Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he

has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

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• 1 Peter 1:7-9• 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much

more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith — the salvation of your souls.

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• OT:2009

• HEBREWGen 19:2, demonstrative particle lo! behold! (certainly, surely, literally lo !)

• Sacrifice, Human• 1842, Ghillany, professor at Nuremberg, published a

book (Die Menschenopfer der alten Hebraer), the object of which was to prove that as the religion of the ancient Hebrews did not differ essentially from that of the Canaanites -- so that Moloch, who had been originally a god common to both, merely in the process of time was softened down and passed into Jehovah, thus becoming the national deity of the people of Israel -- so did their altars smoke with human blood, from the time of Abraham down to the fall of both kingdoms of Judah and Israel.)

• In the same year appeared in Germany another work, by Daumer (Der Feuer- und Molochdienst der alten Hebraer), intended to prove that the worship of Moloch, involving his bloody rites, was the original, legal, and orthodox worship of the nation of Abraham, Moses, Samuel, and David.

• To these works a reply was put forth in 1843, by Lowengard (Jehovah, nicht Moloch, war der Gott der alten Hebraer), in which he defends the worship of Jehovah from the recent imputations, and strives, by distinguishing between the essential and the unessential, the durable and the temporary, to prepare the way for a reformation of modern Judaism.

SACRIFICE, HUMAN

• Such sacrifice was in harmony with the fierce ritual of Syria.

• "The belief in the efficacy of the sacrifice of the firstborn was deeply enrooted in the minds of the people of Canaan.

• In time of distress and necessity they offered to the gods their best and dearest, 'the fruit of their body for the sin of their soul' (Mic 6:7).

• Phoenician mythology related how when war and pestilence afflicted the land, Krones offered up his son Yeoud as a sacrifice, and human sacrifices were prevalent late into historical times.

SACRIFICE, HUMAN

• The OT tells us that Ahaz 'made his son to pass through the fire,' a euphemistic expression for those offerings of the firstborn that made the valley of Tophet an abomination (Jer 7:31).“

• The king of Moab, when he saw that "the battle was too fierce for him," "took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall" (2 Kings 3:26-27).

SACRIFICE, HUMAN

• 'Art thou prepared to obey thy God as fully as the people about thee obey their gods?' and in the putting forth of his faith in the act of obedience, he learns that the nature of his God is different.

• Instead, therefore, of saying that the narrative gives proof of the existence of human sacrifice as an early custom in Israel,

• it is more reasonable to regard it as giving an explanation why it was that, from early time, this had been a prime distinction of Israel that human sacrifice was not practiced as among the heathen."

The god who was most frequently worshipped in this way was Moloch or Molech, the god of the Ammonites (2 Kings 23:10; Lev 18:21; 20:2)

From Jeremiah we learn that the Phoenician god Baal was, at least in the later period of the history, also associated with Molech in receiving this worship (Jer 19:5; 32:35).

• It is forbidden in the Mosaic legislation (Lev 18:21; 20:2-5; Deut 18:10);

• it is said in 2 Kings 17:17 that the sacrifice of sons and daughters was one of the causes of the captivity of the ten tribes.

• Jeremiah charges the people of the Southern Kingdom with doing the same thing

• Heb 11:17-19• By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered

up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called," 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

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• St. John Chrysostom comments on how Abraham refrained from consulting his wife Sarah concerning that issue, saying: [Abraham, not knowing what would happen, and deciding to offer his son according to God’s command, refrained from telling his wife what was going on ... That teaches us to keep our works of love, even from those dear to us, unless it is absolutely necessary].

After 3 days

• Phil 3:10

• 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

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• Mowriyah or Moriyah —• Moriah = "chosen by Jehovah (Yahweh)"

• 1) the place where Abraham took Isaac for sacrificing

• 2) the mount on the eastern edge of Jerusalem on which Solomon built the Temple

• (from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright © 1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for Creation Research.)

• The two young men saw Isaac, and the wood being split by Abraham, yet they could not set forth to where Isaac was to be offered as a sacrifice; as though they are the Jewish people, who saw the Lord according to the flesh, and saw the cross, yet were not able to realize its power.

• And as said by the apostle: “We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness ..., because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Corinthians 1: 23, 25).

• The two young men stayed with the donkey, and did not set forth with Abraham and Isaac to

• behold the secret of God; that is how every one who is bound to the earthly thought, and live on

• account of his belly and lusts of his body, would be as though staying with the donkey, unable to

• set forth to know the spiritual secrets of God, that raises him to the heavenlies.

• Phil 2:5-11

• Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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• “ ‘My father ! ‘, and he said, ‘Here I am my son’ ; and he said: ‘Look, the

• fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ?’ “ (Gen. 22: 7)

• And as the scholar Origen says: [At this moment, in the word of the son “My father !”,

• embodies the severest situation of that experience. • Imagine, to what extent can the voice of the son to be slain, tear out the heart of his father ! ! Yet

Abraham’s steadfast faith did not keep him from saying tenderly: “Here I am my son ! ! “.

Righteousness by faith• Rom 4:16-22• 16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that

the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17(as it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed — God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be." 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."

• It was counted for Abraham, that he actually offered his son, as he was hastening in doing his task without fear; His offering was accepted, even if it was not literally finished.

• And as St.Ambrosius says:• [The father had actually offered his son; as God does not seek

blood, but exalted obedience].

• Isaac, on his part, was counted a son of obedience, having faithfully accepted the cross. And as

• St. Jerome says: • [Isaac, in his readiness to die, had carried the cross of the Bible

before the• Bible came].