"Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife and they were both together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said: Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And they were together. And when they reached the place God had told him, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood, 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. Then the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him because I know that you fear God, hast not withheld thy son, thine only. Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered a burnt offering instead of his son "(Genesis 22: 6-13 ).
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symbols and promises, God "preached before the gospel to Abraham." (Galatians 3: 8.) And the patriarch's faith was fixed upon the Redeemer to come. Christ said to the Jews, "Abraham your father rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad. "(John 8: 56.)
God purposed that the offering of Isaac prefigured the sacrifice of His Son. Isaac was a symbol of the Son of God, which was offered as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
was to record in the mind of Abraham the reality of the Gospel, and to test their faith, as God commanded him to sacrifice his son. However, no one but God could comprehend the greatness of the sacrifice of that parent to consent to his son died.
The agony he suffered during the dark days of ordeal that was allowed to understand from experience something of the greatness of the sacrifice made by the infinite God for man's redemption. No other test could have caused much anguish as Abraham which caused him to offer his son.
God gave His Son to die in agony and shame. The angels who witnessed the humiliation and anguish of the Son of God, not allowed to intervene as in the case of Isaac. No, voice cry out: "Enough!" The King of glory gave his life to save the fallen race. What greater proof can be to the infinite love and compassion of God? "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 32).
The sacrifice required of Abraham was not only for their own good, nor solely for the benefit of future generations, but also to instruct the sinless intelligences of heaven and of other worlds. The battle between Christ and Satan, the land on which it develops the plan of redemption, is the textbook of the universe.
Since Abraham demonstrated a lack of faith in the promises of God, Satan had accused before the angels and before God not to be worthy of his blessings. God wanted to test the loyalty of His servant before all heaven, to show that we can not accept anything less than perfect obedience to reveal more fully the plan of salvation.
Heavenly beings were witnesses of the scene in which tested the faith of Abraham and Isaac's submission. The test was much more severe than that imposed on Adam. Obedience to the prohibition made our first parents did not miss any suffering, but the command given to Abraham demanded the most heinous slaughter.
whole sky, absorbed and amazed, the spotless Abraham's obedience. All heaven applauded his fidelity. It was shown that Satan's accusations were false. God told his servant: "I know that you fear God [despite allegations of Satan] because they have not withheld your son, your only one."
God's covenant, confirmed to Abraham with an oath to beings from other worlds, testified that obedience will be rewarded.
had been difficult even for the angels understand the mystery of redemption, understanding that the Sovereign of heaven, the Son of God, must die for guilty man .
When Abraham was commanded to offer his son as a sacrifice, it aroused the interest of all heavenly beings. With intense fervor, observed every step in fulfilling that mandate.
When Isaac's question: "Where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham answered: "God will provide himself a lamb," and when she was arrested by his father at the time that was about to sacrifice his son and the ram that God had provided was offered instead of Isaac, then shed light the mystery of redemption, and even the angels understood more clearly the admirable measures I had taken God to save mankind.
"To whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but for us they did minister the things which now are announced by those who have preached the gospel by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which crave look at the angels "(1 Peter 1: 12.)
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