Genesis 22:8

God will provide himself. lamb.

The thought in Abraham's mind was that God had provided the lamb in his son carrying the sacrificial wood, but his words received. fulfillment that he did not anticipate. Many regard these words as having. still deeper meaning, and pointing forward to the "Lamb of God, slain for the sins of the world." It is not probable that Abraham was conscious that he was speaking and acting prophecy; for he did not know what the Spirit did signify through him; but at the same time it is easy for us to see that these events typified the great tragedy that was to be enacted at that very place about two thousand years later. 1. Isaac was the promised seed, through whom the families of the earth were in time to be blessed by receiving the Messiah. Christ was the promised seed that blessed the world. 2. Isaac was the only son; Christ "the only begotten Son of God." 3. From the time of the command Isaac was dead in prospect to his father until the third day; Christ died, was buried, and arose again on the third day. 4. Isaac carried the wood for his own sacrifice; Christ carried his own cross. 5. Abraham declared, "God will provide. lamb;" one was provided instead of Isaac, the only one so provided in Jewish history; two thousand years later God provided The Lamb of God. 6. The place where Isaac was bound on the altar was the very place where Christ was condemned to suffer, and died for the sins of the world.