We’re exploring whether God distinguishes between His heavenly people and His earthly people – is this played out in Abraham’s family?
Let’s look at Isaac first...
“We brethren, as Isaac was, are children of Promise” Gal 2:28
- 1st child named by God: “What a laugh!”
- Child of promise, recognised by God as the only son
- 1st child to be circumcised at 8 days old. Ouch!
- Was loved by his father – the first biblical mention of love!
- Was offered for sacrifice in the land of Moriah ~1900 yrs before Messiah was crucified there
- Abraham’s servant found Isaac’s bride-to-be. Rebekah said: “I will go”
- Loved his wife Rebekah
- Monogamous: only 1 wife - no concubines for Isaac!
- Inherited all from Abraham
- NEVER HAGGLES OVER EARTHLY REAL ESTATE!
- Never left the Promised Land and was noted for his well-sinking
- Never resorted to worldly Egypt
- Was 50 yrs old when Shem died at 600 – the last personal witness of the Great Flood!
- For his first 40 years, only recorded as saying... “My father, where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
God reaffirmed the Promises to Isaac...
“I will make thy seed to multiply AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN, and will give unto thy seed ALL THESE COUNTRIES; and in thy seed shall ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH be blessed.”
Notice how Hebrews reminds us... “Therefore sprang there even of one (Sarah) and him as good as dead (Abe) so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable” 11:12
...then spells it out for us: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said: ‘That in Isaac shall thy seed be called’, accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead; FROM WHENCE ALSO HE RECEIVED HIM IN A FIGURE” 11:17-19
Do you see any likeness in Isaac to the risen and ascended Christ in heaven, worthy of his heavenly people, the virgin bride?
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