The Lamb of God - Seh HaElohim

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	Seh HaElohim






	“God will provide Himself a lamb” (Genesis 22:8)


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The Akedah (“binding”) is the story of how Abraham was tested by God to bind his beloved son Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah. At the last moment, God stopped Abraham from going through with the sacrifice and provided a substitute.

Although often pictured as a youth in the Akedah, tradition says that Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the binding (his age is derived from the tradition that the proposed offering caused the death of his mother Sarah at age 127 (Gen 23:1) who was 90 years old when she bore him).

As Messianic believers, we understand the Akedah as a foreshadowing of the ultimate sacrifice the heavenly Father would give on our behalf. Unlike Abraham, God the Father actually offered His only Son in order to make salvation available to all who believe. As Abraham said, Elohim yireh-lo haseh (“God Himself will provide a lamb”).

Consider how the Akedah provides a prophetic picture of the Lord Jesus as the “Lamb of God” (Seh haElohim) who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Both Isaac and Jesus were born miraculously; both were “only begotten sons”; both were to be sacrificed by their fathers at Mount Moriah; both were to be resurrected on the third day (Genesis 22:5, Hebrews 11:17-19); both willingly took up the means of his execution; and both demonstrate that one life can be sacrificed for another – the ram for Isaac, and Jesus for all of mankind.

Indeed, the first occurrence of the word love in the Scriptures (ahavah) (Gen 22:2) refers to a father’s love for his “only” son who was offered as a sacrifice on Moriah (the very place of the crucifixion of Jesus), a clear reference to the gospel message (John 3:16).

During the season of Passover, let us ask the LORD to quicken these words of John the Baptist (Yochanon haMatbil) within our hearts:

“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29; HNT)

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