Gen. 22:13-14
THE LORD WILL SUPPLY. HEBREW: YAHWEH-JIREH.
Many names of God in the Hebrew of the Old Testament. Each speaks of who
He is.
In the Beginning God, Elohim.
God in the general sense. The creator. The various nations would speak
of their Elohim. But the Israelites would say not just any elohim but
supreme God. Supreme Elohim.
The Living God.
Moses – who shall I say sent me? He wanted a name.
But that name was lost, because it was too sacred to write or speak. We
do have the major letters.
YHWH. Yahweh.
That is his personal name.
- It means “Being Life.” “I am that I am.”
We have to say I am because of Him. I’m dependent. God is independent.
Burning bush of Moses… why was the bush not consumed??
He IS life. He is never the I was. He IS. You can’t get around Him. The
unchanging God. The un-begun… the un-ending… the eternal.
But the Hebrews did not understand what this meant until He began to
live and walk in their lives. And as He walked among them, they began to
know Him. And each time they learned something new of Him, they would
raise an altar. And they would give Him a name according to his
revelation.
Some have met Him on a certain level – and think that’s all He is.
JEHOVAH JIRAH. COMES TO ABRAHAM. MOUNT MORIAH. GEN. 22: 1&2
Abraham about 125 years old. God is putting Abraham’s faith to the
test.
Take now your son. Your only son – Isaac – and offer him.
The one that you love. (get the impact)
Isaac was the beginning of everything. The channel of all the promises
to Abraham.
Isaac means laughter. There was joy, happiness among God and men.
ISAAC ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OLD.
To kill Isaac is to kill the promise. And yet Abraham did not doubt or
ask questions. He had before. He apparently went to bed and slept…
what would I have done? He rises early in the morning, in faith, in
obedience.
Faith in Abraham has come to maturity. Abraham just responds. Faith
responds to God’s word despite the circumstances. Abraham had not
always been this way. But he grew in faith.
3 & 4 – TOOK THE FIRE WITH THEM.
Also the sacrificial knife.
Also the wood.
Traveled 3 days to land of Moriah.
Rugged high country.
Come past Salem.
5 – SAID TO THOSE ACCOMPANYING – WE WILL GO AND WORSHIP AND WE WILL
RETURN.
What was going through his mind. Heb 11:17-19
In Isaac was all the promise.
If God said kill him, I’ll kill him. And God will raise him up.
- We will return.
7-8 – ISAAC CARRIES THE WOOD (ASKS QUESTIONS. GOD HIMSELF WILL PROVIDE
THE LAMB)
A 125 year old man is not going to be able to keep a young man down and
bound on the altar.
Rather at this point, Isaac comes to faith and yields himself in
trusting obedience to the promises of God.
9-14 – IN THAT FINAL MOMENT ABRAHAM SEES THE LAMB THAT GOD HAS PROVIDED.
Abraham sees God in a new way. He calls him Jehovah Jirah.
Jirah – to see – to provide. (Expression – I’ll see to that).
Looking upon another with care. He sees us and he cares.
- With pleasure and pain. A seeing that comes from the depths of the
Seeing all and knowing all He provides for us ahead of time. Our needs
do not take Him by surprise.
14 – PROVERB. IN THE MOUNT OF THE LORD IT WILL BE PROVIDED.
God will take care of it in the nick of time.
God asked for a human sacrifice. Just like the heathen gods. This was so
unusual.
Why? They had been using animal sacrifices.
God is saying when it is all said and done, you willful creatures. You
can choose.
Do you think that an animal that is unwillingly sacrificed can cover for
yourwillful sinful acts? No!
Some human must choose to cover the sin which you chose.
- So God is acting “prophetically” to say “this is where we are
Isaac couldn’t do it. He was not perfect.
Further he was worth only one human being. So God took Isaac back. Human
sacrifice must be, but Isaac could not be the one.
ISAAC WAS THE FIRST DESCENDENT OF ABRAHAM. JESUS WAS THE LAST.
From Abraham came the One Descendent who was the promise. That’s why
Matthew begins with the genealogy.
- He’s the one that fits the bill. Gen. 49:10
- He was man – went freely.
- He was God – so worth all men.
Abraham got up early in the morning to set Isaac apart for sacrifice.
The Father very early before the foundations of the world to set his son
aside for sacrifice.
Before Isaac was born the last descendant was already set aside. So
Isaac becomes a picture of what was already done and what was to come.
Before Christ announces to us of our forgiveness, He has gone to the
Father and said that He has accomplished the atonement of our sin. He
has purchased the price of our redemption.
MT. MORIAH AND CALVARY PROBABLY THE SAME SPOT.
The father pointed to the same Mt. Moriah and says that’s where we are
going, son.
Only Abraham and Isaac saw what took place.
Only the Father and the Son really know what took place in that
transaction.
He stopped Abraham from going that far but he could not stop himself.
The crowds said to Jesus, “Save yourself!”
Abraham carried the fire – which speaks of the judgment.
Jesus came under the fiery wrath of God’s judgment.
Jesus received the wrath of our sins. There is no wrath waiting for me.
Jesus received it.
What judgment do we receive?
The Bema judgment. Based on how we’ve done. The awards.
Tells us even now from the Bema seat, how we are doing.
Don’t fear the voice of the judge.
- He’s only helping you reach the end in record time.
- As we begin the race – Jesus tells us we’ve already won.
Because Jesus has won for us. Jehovah Jirah has provided for us.
- We could not provide for our sins but Jehovah Jirah.
- The God provider – who sees our needs – He could provide.
HE SAW AND HE PROVIDED. AND IT WAS DONE.
- WE ARE BIRTHED OUT OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
22:20 – Seems incongruous… comes down off this mountain experience
and the family talks about the latest babies.
This baby was Rebecca who was to be Isaac’s wife.
As Christ was sacrificed and brought back to life, Christ’s wife was
also born. The Church. The Bride of Christ.
- So we have this picture not only how He was Jehovah Jirah to Abraham
- Another picture. We were Isaac about to perish. The wrath of God about
- But just in time – God provides a Lamb.
This completes our study of Genesis. In the light of what you have
learned, consider who you are now through Christ. Although you were born
part of the race that had chosen to disobey God, both you and I are the
objects of God’s grace. The fountainhead of that grace is Genesis 3:15.
Jesus, the Son of God born of a woman, has through His death and
resurrection, reversed the curse.
Abraham’s faith is your faith! Jesus is the descendant God promised
Abraham, and now united to Christ, you are Abraham’s descendants,
inheritors of the promise. Read carefully Galations 3 and rejoice in all
that is yours in union with Christ.
As Genesis ends, you have a FAMILY which is the descendants of Abraham
that God had said would serve another nation for a period of 400 years,
and then would return to the land of Canaan “with many possessions.”
This family of Israel had grown to some 600,000 men, and would
therefore, be assumed to be somewhere close to 3 million including women
and children.
They have been in slavery for over 400 years, and yet God has promised
that they would come out with many possessions. They are to return to
inherit the land of CANAAN, as promised to Abraham. Why the land of
Canaan. The curse of Canaan in Genesis 9, and the table of nations in
Genesis 10… These are the nations that God commanded the nation of
Israel to drive out of the land of Canaan.