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“But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” (Genesis 22:7) John said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).“Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac” (Genesis 22:6) Jesus, “carrying his own cross,” walked to Calvary (John 19:17).“Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:2) “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3).Jesus was crucified in the same area that Isaac had been laid on the altar. Sacrifice him there” (Genesis 22:2) it is believed that this same area is where the city of Jerusalem was built many years later. “Take your son, your only son, whom you love” (Genesis 22:2) “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son” (John 3:16).Here are some of the parallels between the sacrifice of Isaac and the sacrifice of Christ: The story of Abraham prefigures the New Testament teaching of the atonement, the sacrificial offering of the Lord Jesus on the cross for the sin of mankind. God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was to foreshadow God’s sacrifice of His own Son. Thus we have another character-revealing name of God: Yahweh-Yireh. After God’s provision of a ram to take Isaac’s place on the altar, “Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide” (verse 14). On the way up the mountain to the place of sacrifice, Isaac inquired as to the animal to be sacrificed, and his father said, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son” (Genesis 22:8). God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was to reveal God as Jehovah-Jireh. Just simple obedience, which brought a blessing (verses 15–18). There was no delay, no questioning, no arguing. After God gave the command, “early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey” and headed out with his son and the wood for a burnt offering (Genesis 22:3). God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was to provide an example of absolute obedience.

God uses Abraham’s faith as an example of the type of faith required for salvation. Without Abraham’s response to the command to sacrifice Isaac, we would have difficulty knowing all that faith entails. And we today “who have the faith of Abraham” also find that “he is the father of us all” (verse 16). “Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness” (Romans 4:9). God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was to validate Abraham as the “father” of all who have faith in God. Faith is more than an inner spiritual attitude faith works (see James 2:18).

God’s test of Abraham allowed His child-and all the world-to see the reality of faith in action. They cause us to seek Him and trust Him more. God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was to test Abraham’s faith. Given that God’s testing of Abraham involved a command to do something He elsewhere forbids (see Jeremiah 7:31), we must ask, “Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?” The Bible does not specifically address the answer to this question, but in our study of Scripture we can compile a few reasons: Later, Abraham was specifically told that the promise would be through Isaac (Genesis 21:12). God had promised several times that from Abraham’s own body would come a nation as multitudinous as the stars in heaven (Genesis 12:2–3 15:4–5). This was an astounding command because Isaac was the son of promise.