"By Myself I have sworn... I will surely bless you."GENESIS 22:16-17+Christ Is the PledgeOur trust will be perfect when life and death, glory and shame, adversity and good fortune will be alike to us....  Read More

"By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you."GENESIS 22:16-17God's OathThe fact that God swears by Him...  Read More

So Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord Will See; as it is said to this day: On the mount the Lord will see.GENESIS 22:14 (according to Luther's translation)+The Lord Will SeeThis name, The...  Read More

Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.GE...  Read More

"Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."GENESIS 22:12+Fear and ReverenceWhen Abraham is...  Read More

[Abraham] said, "Here am I."GENESIS 22:11+Here Am I[Abraham's] obedience gave God extraordinary pleasure. For of all the sacrifices the one most acceptable to God is this: to kill sin, to live in righ...  Read More

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, 'Abraham, Abraham!"GENESIS 22:11+Death ConqueredHere you see with what unconcern the divine Majesty toys with death and all the power of d...  Read More

Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.GENESIS 22:10+In the Midst of DeathMoses sums up that remarkable and amazing account in one short sentence. At this very moment the...  Read More

[Isaac] said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son."GENESIS 22:7-8+God Provide...  Read More

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. . .. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son…. So they went both of them together.GENESIS 22:4...  Read More

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac.GENESIS 22:3+Without HesitationThis is an extraordinary example and a description of...  Read More

"Offer [Isaac] there as a burnt offering."GENESIS 22:2+Raised from the AshesEven though there is a clear contradiction here—for there is nothing between death and life—Abraham nevertheless does not tu...  Read More