We all know the story in Genesis 22, which we call the Akedah (binding), where Abraham obeys God’s demand that he sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah.
We also all know that this is all about testing Abraham’s faith.
Or, is it?
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I had recently posted a message regarding the way Christianity has misrepresented Yeshua (Jesus) as more of an Absalom, a son who defied his father’s authority and rebelled to have people follow him, than an Isaac who obeyed his father’s wishes, even unto death.
That is when it “hit” me: yes, the Akedah is certainly a story about the faith of Abraham, but isn’t it also a story about the obedience of Isaac?
It is considered a messianic passage by almost everyone, and as such, it isn’t just about the father willing to sacrifice his only son, but it is about the son, willing to be obedient to his father at all costs.
Just as Yeshua, the Messiah, was so obedient to his father, God, as to allow himself to be sacrificed.
It was, to me, a realization of a different aspect of the Akedah that, to my knowledge and from my experience, has not been addressed.
So, what do you think? I think there are two very important lessons from the Akedah:
- The standard lesson that Abraham’s faith was strong enough to let him sacrifice his son, just as God’s love for us was strong enough for him to sacrifice his son; and
- That Isaac’s obedience to his father was strong enough to allow him to let himself be sacrificed, and although he wasn’t, in Yeshua’s case he was.
That’s all I wanted to say (I know- who woddah ‘tought I could write such a short message?)
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