ABRAHAM OFFERS ISAAC AS A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD

ABRAHAM OFFERS ISAAC AS A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD

I would like to share some things that I have never personally heard preached. I’d like to reflect on the Father and Son relationship. The Spirit inspired revelations that are NOT written but better known when you reflect on the full counsel of the Word of God while meditating on scriptures. Often times the Lord will give me “a” scripture and I meditate on it for days or perhaps weeks and continue to get more revelations from the Holy Spirit.

First lets read Genesis 22 and I will put some things in bold type to reflect upon.

Genesis 22:1–19 (NKJV)

Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

22 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

² Then He said, “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 the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. ⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

⁶ So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. ⁷ But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”

And he said, “Here I am, my son.”

Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

¹¹ But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

So he said, “Here I am.”

¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

¹⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” ¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

Faith is always tested yet the testing is very seldom preached. You can not go from faith to great faith and glory to more glory without testing. Where much is given much is required!

Luke 12:48 (NKJV)

⁴⁸ But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

James 1:3 (ESV)

³ for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

James 1:3–4 (AMP)

3 Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.

4 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.

You can’t even have a true/solid/unshakable witness for the Lord without testing. Some tests are private while others are public. When they are public they are to witness the Kingdom of Heaven and the Glory of the Lord to those around you. This was a private test for Abraham. Even his wife was unaware of this testing as Abraham did not counsel with his wife. There were to be no chances of the doubts and unbelief of others to influence Abraham. What the Lord calls each of us to do are our own burdens and responsibilities and no one else’s.

It took 3 days for the journey which is three days of testing, self reflection, casting down doubt, lack of personal understanding and not truly knowing it was a testing! I have had many people come to me in asking for prayer or prophetic words to get them out of a test of the Lord and I can’t tell them they are being tested! If I tell you that you are being tested the test is no longer valid. It is YOUR CROSS TO BARE! All true genuine prayer is birthed in the will of God not personal desires so we need to seek the Lord on what HE wants to do for that person not what they ask or desire or even your own understanding. So the Lord revealed the test to me because I sought the Lord not the request of the requester. The 3 days is similar to Jesus death and resurrection as well as the 3 days Saul from Tarsus fasted and prayed before getting his vision back and be born again in the Holy Spirit.

Another revelation is that Isaac was without spot or blemish! The Lord will only accept a sacrifice without spot or blemish! Jesus is coming back for a bride without spot or blemish!

Now let’s look at the Father and son interaction between Abraham and Isaac. Abraham had faith in the Lord and Isaac had faith in his father Abraham! Even when Isaac did not have complete understanding he trusted his father! Just as Abraham trust our heavenly Father! I repeat Isaac was without spot or wrinkle. I have never heard this preached!

Leviticus 22:21 (NKJV)

²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.

Exodus 12:5 (NKJV)

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Ephesians 5:27 (NKJV)

²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Notice the signs given in preparation as Abraham split the wood for the offering. It was a 3 day journey when Abraham saw the place to perform the sacrifice. Also Abraham told the two young men to stay behind thus no outside interference, distractions or opinions were allowed. God said it, Abraham believed and obeyed and so it was with Abraham! Those who say there is salvation without obedience are of the Antichrist. If Abraham is the father of faith Abraham’s obedience was tested before righteousness was imputed. The Holy Spirit will not dwell where self righteousness and idolatry exist! Repentance is denying self and following Jesus and the pursuit of holiness.

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

²⁴ Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. ²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. ²⁶ For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Matthew 5:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart,

For they shall see God.

Psalm 15:2 (NKJV)

² He who walks uprightly,

And works righteousness,

And speaks the truth in his heart;

Psalm 24:4 (NKJV)

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,

Nor sworn deceitfully.

Abraham prepares Isaac to be the offering and while Isaac asks his Father questions he never tries to run, getaway or question what his father Abraham tells him. Isaac asks Abraham his father where is the lamb and Abraham tells his son God will provide.

So when the Pharisees told Jesus they were decedents of Abraham Jesus rebuked them.

John 8:39–47 (NKJV)

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father.”

Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

The same relationship Jesus had with the Father, Abraham had with Isaac. Not my will but your will be done in total faith, love and trust of the Father. Isaac was without spot or wrinkle! Jesus was without spot or wrinkle and we are called to prepare ourselves to be without spot or wrinkle as a living sacrifice to the Lord! The “seed” of Abraham was Christ Jesus! As I wrote in another blog post King David when he fought Goliath it was the “seed” of the Lion of The Tribe of Judah in David that killed Goliath! Christ Jesus in David! That is why David told Goliath the hosts of heaven would serve him the head of Goliath! That is why the stone hit the forehead of Goliath which is where the mark of the beast is located! Goliath was a beast who worship another god/deity!

Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)

Living Sacrifices to God

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

We all know that when Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac it was a foreshadow of Jesus life, death and resurrection. What I wanted to help you think about was the father and son relationship of Abraham and Isaac as well as Isaac NOT having any spot or wrinkle. Even when Isaac didn’t completely understand he still trusted his father Abraham and had faith in Abraham. If you go back to the fall in Genesis 3 Adam fell from unbelief that he was NOT to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam allowed “outside” influence from Eve and desired Eve more than the Father. Today we find people who love “gifting” but don’t love the Father! We idolize gifts and put the gifts above the Father.

Abraham learned that seeking counseling from others including his own wife and those young men that went with him that they would try to “reason”, “politically debate” what was Spirit and Truth which would allow the “seeds” of unbelief to attempt to take “root”. What fellowship has a believer and follower of Christ Jesus with unbelievers?

2 Corinthians 6:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Those who are born again in the Holy Spirit will not continue to sit under and fellowship with those who are rebellious to Spirit and Truth. The Lord resists the proud! Not everyone even including the church leadership is necessarily born again and regenerated in the Holy Spirit! In fact there are many Antichrist spirits in the leadership, pulpits and pews! Why do you not believe the great spiritual battle that was fought in heaven is not playing out on earth as well as inside the local assemblies? Why do you believe in the “end of the age” battle and yet are not engaged in the day to day battle even within the “false church”. The true church is not a nation, building or a temple made with human hands! The true temple is the human body. So you are either the temple of the Living God Christ Jesus or the temple of the adversary Satan. There is no “third temple” for sacrifices as Christ Jesus was the sacrifice for all of humanity.

I hope you now have greater insight and understanding of the father and son relationship of Abraham and Isaac as well as the son Isaac having true faith in his Father! The two were one in faith and truth. Isaac was trained in the ways of the Lord by Abraham who was obedient and faithful to the Lord. Do not lean upon your own understanding ALWAYS seek the Lord in Spirit and Truth and DO NOT lean upon the understanding, reasoning, influences, persuasion and pressures of any other human! We follow Jesus NOT men/women! We follow Jesus, NOT rulers of this world, principalities and powers or any other spirits.

When Israel gave praise to David before David was recognized as the Spiritual King of Israel as Samuel anointed David. What was displayed was idolatry worship to a man named David because they did not see the “seed of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah” in David! Jesus was in the bloodline of David and it was the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah” that killed Goliath! When you look to flesh you only receive earthly knowledge but when you seek and look to the Lord you get spiritual revelations of Spirit and Truth! If people are recognizing other people by earthly established positions of authority they are not getting spiritual revelations. I don’t care if you are the most educated human on earth you are nothing without Christ Jesus. King Saul wanted to be idolatrized as king and when the attention went to David even before he was publicly made king the spirit of jealousy which is a murdering spirit took root in Saul.

Another point of consideration and importance which is not directly implied but yet demonstrated is that it is the Father who Presents the Son! So this also means it is the man’s role only to present the Son of God in preaching and not the woman’s role to preach. A preacher who is anointed of the Lord Jesus does not just present the Written Word he must present the Living Word at the same time! This is why so many are deceived and have no spiritual discernment! You must have, listen and be obedient to the Holy Spirit to discern other spirits! You must know Jesus as the person of the Godhead and not just an author of His Word! Satan doesn’t care if you know the bible forwards and backwards as Satan does not want you to become TRULY BORN AGAIN! The flesh can not alone withstand the spirit of Satan it takes the Spirit of the Living God and the grace of the Living God to withstand Satan and destroy the words of darkness. This is why many of the unsaved people have a measure of the Lord’s grace upon them. Their consciences have not been seared and they have not been yet given over to their own hearts desires. The Lord will not always strive with humanity and the end of the age is rapidly approaching.

Romans 5:8 (AMP)

8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)

³ And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

I hope this writing has helped you to see the greater picture of revelations as you take the full counsel of the Word of God and see how profound those revelations are. Isaac was without spot or wrinkle. Isaac had complete faith in his father Abraham even when he did not completely understand. When Isaac asked Abraham about the sacrifice Abraham spoke in faith that the Lord would provide!

I will share a short portion of personal testimony regarding offering my family as a sacrifice to the Lord in prayer. You see my family abandoned me many years ago falsely accusing and believing that I was the problem in their lives because they were/are blinded by the god of this world Satan. I had spent 3 days on a beach front on my knees alone worshipping the Lord in tears as I surrendered my family who abandoned me back to the Lord. I said Lord I refuse to allow the enemy of my soul to pervert the gift of my family in my heart as my family was a gift from you Lord. Lord the enemy of my soul is trying to “bind me up” and keep me from a deeper life in you Lord so I offer my family back to you in prayer as ONLY you can deliver them from the bondage of the devil and give them a new heart of flesh and a new spirit. I said Lord they were yours long before you gave them to me and I give them back to you Lord. I want to go deeper in you and desire the fullness of you in my life. I seek the abundant life ONLY found in Christ Jesus. I thank you Lord that you have healed my soul of these things and that I can walk in a greater awareness and fullness of your Spirit.

You see my family thinks they were delivered from me by rejecting me and that is the lie of Satan. But it was the Lord who delivered me from the bondage of my own family. This has been my life since I was 5 years old. Even my siblings, parents and relatives had/have abandoned me. I had only one “blood” aunt who never saw me as others declared me to be. She was a godly woman who lived a very sacrificial life caring for others and putting others before herself. She departed and I was there when the Lord took her home. I heard her repetative prayers that night as I was there to comfort her as she prayed over and over: “Father help me”, “Father help me” and the Lord took her home! Her own daughters were not present it was as if unbelievers were not allowed to be present. The Lord spoke to me about a week before her passing that I was to be with her the following Thursday. She came home Friday from the hospital and died that night calling out to the Lord, “Father help me”.

Galatians 4:6 (NKJV)

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Romans 8:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

I hope you understand that each of us must walk according to the will of God for us and not what others think or believe is the will of God for us! Even in prayer we should seek the will of God and not rely on the requests of prayers from others. What is the will of God for that person at that particular time and season that God is “refining” them “purging” them and edifying them?

I hope you know understand that the incarnate Christ came with a sword dividing even family to fulfill the will of God in each of us as individuals yet “one body” in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 10:34–42 (NKJV)

³⁴ “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; ³⁶ and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ ³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

⁴⁰ “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

John 10:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Amen, the abundant life which is a life in the Holy Spirit abiding in Christ Jesus and the Father!

John 15:1–11 (NKJV)

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.