Genesis 12:1-3

Abrahamic Timeline

Genesis 12:1-3
God Initiates The Covenant

Genesis 12:4-5 (75 Years Old)
Went With His Family To Haran

Genesis 13:14-17
Lot Separates, God Tells Abram Again

Genesis 15:1-21
God Ratified The Covenant With An Animal

Genesis 17:1-27 (99 Years Old)
God Renews The Covenant, Changes Name

Genesis 22:15-18
God Confirms The Covenant

Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one
born in my house is my heir!” And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.”
Genesis 15:3-4

Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15:5-6

Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 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.”
Genesis 22:1-2

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.
Genesis 22:3

Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 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.”
Genesis 22:4-5

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. 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?”
Genesis 22:6-7

And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together. 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.
Genesis 22:8-9

And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22:10-11

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.” 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.
Genesis 22:12-13

And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide (Jehovah-Jirah); as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,
Genesis 22:14-15

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— 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.
Genesis 22:16-17

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
Genesis 22:18-19

1.It’s A Story Of A Loving, Believing Father Willingly Offering His Only Begotten Son

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17

2.The Father And The Son Participate Willingly In The Sacrifice

“And the two of them went on together…”
Genesis 22:6

3.Abraham Walked For Three Days, Believing God Would Raise His Son From The Dead

Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:4

4.His Son Is Offered On A Mountain Called “Mount Moriah”

Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:1

Moriah – Connected To “Myrrh”
Golgotha – Aramaic “The Skull”
2100 Years Between

Calvary – Latin: “The Skull”

5.Abraham Believed That God Would Raise His Only Son From The Dead

…“Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
Genesis 22:5

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
Hebrews 11:17-19

Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
John 8:54-56

6.Abraham Believed God Would Provide “For Himself” A Sacrifice

“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?” And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb (Notice: the lamb) for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
Genesis 22:7-8

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:29

7.All Nations Are Blessed By Abraham’s Seed

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
Galatians 3:16

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise.
Galatians 3:28-29

Like Abraham, We Are Justified By Faith

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Galatians 3:8-9

Like Abraham, We Must Lay What We Love On God’s Altar

What Is Your Isaac?

Like Abraham, It’s A Journey

It Was 25 Years From
Promise To Possession

Like Abraham, God Has Promised Us!

To Be A Great Nation (Rulership)
Have A Great Name (Authority)
Receive Great Provision (Abundance)

A Great Relationship With
The Father Through The Son