In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “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 ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is realized in full in Christ. Isaac is the bridge ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “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 ...

Isaac’s almost-sacrifice on the hill of Moriah prefigures Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. What is prefigured in Isaac happens in Jesus. If you reject Abraham’s obedience, you question whether ...

When Abraham and Isaac leave home en route to Mt. Moriah, as we read last week in the Torah, they departed from Beersheba, for this is where Abraham and his two accompanying ‘’young men ...

Years back, a Hebrew Christian approached me, arguing that his belief in Jesus grew from the story of the Binding of Isaac, called the Akeidah in Hebrew. Jesus, he suggested, was able to do what Is… ...

In a scant 19 lines, Genesis Chapter 22 tells us that God instructed Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. This notorious incident, known as the Akedah or the Binding of Isaac, is ...