"It was Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac which inspired God to reciprocate, two thousand years later, with the sacrifice of His only-begotten son, born also from Abraham's seed, on yet another mount, that of Calvary. And so we see that Abraham's utterance "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son"(v. 8) was prophetic far beyond anything he knew, referring not only to the provision of the ram "provided" by the Lord, but referring far more profoundly to the only truly acceptable sacrifice, that of God's Son Himself on the altar of Calvary. Jesus was the true Paschal Lamb, sacrificed on Calvary to bring us true freedom, freedom from our sins, freedom to be sons and daughters of God through participation in the sacrifice of His Son the Messiah."
--Roy Shoeman
Catholic Jew
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