The Thing between Them
..it never went away.
Issac knew all his life that Abraham would have butchered him on the altar.
He knew Abraham wasn’t joking or trying to fake it to fool God.
He was tied up and on the altar, exactly like all the sheep he had witnessed being offered up to that point. He knew his Dad would have done it.
All their lives; in the midst of the joys and sorrows they shared; it was always there: the understanding that his Dad was going to do what God told him to do no matter what; that His Dad feared God more than he loved Issac.
Did they speak of it again to each other? What would have been the point?
Issac was forty years old before he got married and his Dad’s servant picked his wife out for him as God worked it out. All his life he never forgot it. Rebeca probably didn’t believe it when she was told. It is a easy thing to see him telling the truth to his children and grandchildren and them not really believing it because they were not there, tied up with the knife in the air in his Dad’s hand.
The only One who stopped it was the One who started it and had kept it on its course to that moment.
Genesis 22:10-14 And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son. And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I. And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son , from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.
Contrast that with all those who say they are children of Abraham as being of the faith in Jesus Christ while they really think their hearts are smarter than God to not hurt anyone’s feelings and who, while refusing to do any discipline in their own families and churches, think nothing as well of throwing all law and order out the window in the name of what they call love.
2Timothy 3:1-5 But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there; for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27