Genesis 24 is a long chapter with many details concerning Abraham sending his most trustworthy servant to find a wife for his son Isaac from among Abraham’s relatives. In the spiritual application of this type we see Christ marrying the church – the great mystery, Christ and the church. However, the primary point in Genesis […]
In our Spiritual Experience Mount Moriah Becomes Mount Zion, the Reality of the Body
May 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The God of Abraham is our God, and Abraham’s experience of God needs to become our experience of God also. One of the deepest and highest experiences Abraham had of God was at Mount Moriah, where God instructed him to go and bring his son, Isaac, as a burnt offering to Him. God tested Abraham […]
By being Offered Back to God by Abraham, Isaac was Multiplied to Become the New Jerusalem
May 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Many people who read the Bible know that God required Abraham to offer up Isaac as a burnt offering, but they don’t know what happened after God provided a ram (a type of Christ) to replace Isaac as the burnt offering. We need to dig deeper into the word of God to see what it […]
After Isaac was Offered to God, he was Returned in Resurrection for God’s Purpose
May 15, 2014 by 2 Comments
Many Christians tend to trivialize the story of Abraham offering up Isaac to God as a burnt offering, saying that “God tested him to see if he can give up his own son, and Abraham passed the test!” But what the Bible reveals is a much deeper and sweeter reality than this. Why did God […]
Obeying God in Faith and Having a Crystal Clear Vision with the Divine Provision
May 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
Many people who read the story in Genesis 22 – the one about God requesting Abraham to bring his beloved son, Isaac, as a burnt offering – think that God is too much in asking this from Abraham, and Abraham was too strong in faith (something which they can never achieve) to trust God to […]
Learning the Lesson of Offering Back to God what He has Given us and Rely only on God
May 13, 2014 by 1 Comment
Abraham learned the lesson of offering back to God what He has given him. In Gen. 22:1-18 we see that God asked Abraham to bring his beloved son, his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering on one of the mountains in Moriah. Even though Isaac was born through grace and he was from God, […]
Our Enjoyment of Christ in the Church Life Produces us as a Burnt Offering for God
May 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The God of Abraham is our God, and Abraham’s experience of God needs to become our experience of God in our Christian life today. According to Rom. 4:17, Abraham had a twofold knowledge of God: first, he knew God as the One who calls things not being as being, and then he experienced God as […]
