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THE HOLIEST Children
of Abram (Abraham)...
Tablet Three
Abraham is tested by the Lord:
And it came to pass after these things, that
God did tempt Abraham,
and said unto him, Abraham:
and he
said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of
Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I
will tell thee of.
(Genesis 22:1-2)
And they came to the place which
God
had told him of; and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood
in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the
wood.
And Abraham
stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel
of the Lord called unto him out of
heaven,...
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither
do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou
fearest God, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
(Genesis 22:9-12)
<1>God was
testing Abraham to see how
detached he was. God demanded him
to sacrifice his son whom he
had received in old age from Him. <2>Abraham
proved that he understood the realities behind this universe with complete
detachment. He realized that God
had given him the child and now He wanted him back. <3>A child is not
the parent's but God's. So, with
complete surrendering,
Abraham was ready to give up Isaac. That is why
Abraham is the symbol of being surrendered to the Lord's Will, and that
is how he passed the test.
And Abraham
called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day,
In the mount of the
Lord it shall be seen.
And the angel
of the Lord called unto Abraham
out of heaven the second
time,
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying
I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of the heaven, and
as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies;
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
(Genesis 22:14-18)
<4>God was
very pleased with Abraham, to
see that he was so detached and obedient. He was ready to
sacrifice
his "only son" left at home for God's
sake and demand. <5>That was a great sign of being surrendered and
ready to sacrifice all for
His Will.
<6>That is why
God
was so pleased that He gave Abraham
an unconditional
blessing and promise, with no covenant necessary this time. <7>God
blessed him with the highest blessing by saying, "in blessing I will bless
thee." God
would multiply his seed numerously, and his "seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies." In Abraham's
offspring, all the nations of the earth would be blessed, with no condition
necessary, only for Abraham's
sake.
Note: We can see here that it says that
Isaac was the "only son" of Abram (Abraham). Of course we know that
this is not true as Abram (Abraham) also had Ishmael, from Hagar. The
Koran says that the son that God commanded to be sacrificed was Ishmael.
The truth is that God commanded Abram (Abraham) to sacrifice both.
This of course has been changed in the Bible by those who tried hard
to exclude Ishmael and promote Isaac. This is corrected in the
Koran, and Ishmael is also included in this event!
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