"Take your son, your only son, whom you love"

'Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac was intimately linked to, one could even say reciprocated by, God's willingness, two thousand years later, to sacrifice His only begotten Son on the very same mountain, just a few hundred yards away, at the spot known as "Calvary". The very circumstances of Abraham's act foreshadowed, reflected in advance, the ultimate fulfilment two thousand years later. "Take your son, your only son, whom you love" (Genesis 22:2) was echoed two thousand years later in "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son... [His] beloved Son" (John 3:16; Matthew 3:17). As the son of Abraham climbed the mount with the wood on his shoulders for his own execution, so too did the Son of God. So we see that Abraham's utterance "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering" (Genesis 22:8) was prophetic far beyond anything he knew, referring not only to the provision of the ram "provided" by the Lord, but also referring far more profoundly to the only truly acceptable sacrifice, that of God's Son Himself on the altar of Calvary.'

How amazing is that? I have just taken this from Roy H. Schoeman's book entitled, "Salvation is from the Jews". Schoeman is Jewish by race and converted to Catholicism in the nineties. I have only just started this book and am already pleasantly surprised by the accessibility of the writing and content. I highly recommend it to you.

Benedicite.