YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY SON, WHOM YOU LOVE
God Does Not Recognize Ishmael as a Child of Promise, Only as the Works of the Flesh, Not of His Hand
GENESIS 22
1And it came to pass…that God…said unto…Abraham: “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
2Then He said, “Take now your son, YOUR ONLY SON ISAAC, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
6So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
Isaac, The Only Son of Father Abraham, as promised, & whom he loved, carried the sacrificial wood on his own back, just as Jesus, The Only Son of Father God, whom He loved, carried His own cross on His back, on His way to be sacrificed on Mount Calvary.
7But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
12And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY SON, from Me.”
13Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
The lamb God Himself provided was caught in the thicket by his horns, which means it walked in willingly & knowingly, head first, not being snagged by it’s coat, lest it suffer blemish, thereby actually wearing a “crown of thorns”, just as Jesus wore, whom God provided to us as our Sacrificial Lamb, & He went in willingly.
15Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,
16 and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY SON—
Isaac was THE ONLY SON of Abraham & Sarah, to whom the Promise AND the Promised Land was given, & to all their descendants, eternal & everlasting.
Ishmael & his descendants, the Arabs & Palestinians, are forever excluded from the Promise AND the Promised Land, as only children of the flesh.
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