The LORD Will Provide
The LORD Will Provide
(Jehova Jireh)
David Wilkerson
The Lord comes to him and says,
“Abraham, I want you to take your son, your only son.” (It means only begotten son.)
“And I want you to take that boy to Moriah. I’m gonna show you a mountain.
I want you go to that mountain. I want you to sacrifice your only son, your loved son. I want you to lay him on the altar. I want you to sacrifice him.”
Can you understand on that three-day trip that had to be the most trying time of Abraham’s life? In fact, in his mind, Isaac was dead. Because the Scripture says in Hebrews that he received in form as from the dead(Hebrews 11:19), he was a dead man.
He had given up everything even though he knew that this was the promised seed, that nations were supposed to come out of this lead, that(’s) the Messiah.
In fact, the Bible says
(Abraham’s speaking Jesus.)
Jesus said, Abraham saw my day and rejoiced in it (John 8:56).
He knew that coming Messiah would come through this seed.
Can you imagine what it took? Can you imagine the faith this man had? He was a human man. He was not a super saint. This man had faith. Where did he get it? In the heathen land surrounded by the heathen where did he get it?
From the revelation of the name of God.
The names of God.
He has a revelation.
“He told me that He is the Creator.
If He is the Creator and I kill him,
God’s gonna raise him up!”
“I believe in a resurrection.” is what he’s saying.
They get to this mountain Moriah which is later we know mountain Mariah is where Jerusalem is. And most scholars believed that where the sacrifice’s made is the exact spot where Jesus was crucified.
And you remember Jesus carried some wood up the hill also. Abraham piled the wood on his son and his son carried it up on the way up around mountain Moriah.
And Isaac looks at the wood in his hand and he sees the big knife strapped around his father’s waist.
and he sees him carry a cense and he says,
“Father, here’s the wood. There’s the knife.
Where’s the sacrifice?”
He said, “God will provide a sacrifice.”
This all prefigures Jesus Christ.
Remember the three-day trip where really he is dead in his mind.
Remember that Hebrews says,
He’s received as from the dead back to his father.
(Hebrews 11:19)
It all prefigures Christ.
God’s building a church of faith. He was gonna be the father of the church of faith, those who were saved by faith.
God was telling every forthcoming generation that one day there has to be more than an animal sacrifice, there has to be one pure, there has to be one holy to come and lay down his life.
He was prefiguring the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the sins of the world.
Isaac had faith. He had been taught the covenant. He had heard the revelation his father had given to him of the names of God.
He believed in the all sufficient God. He too knew if he died he can be raised again but if not he would lay it down. This also prefigures Christ willingly offering himself as a lamb, as a sacrifice for mankind.
Abram wrists the knife. He’s about to thrust it to the heart of his beloved son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, …
Genesis 22:11
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Genesis 22:12
And 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 him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:13
I want you to listen.
You talk about “God’d been a provider?”
He provides long before you were born He would set up circumstances in your life.
Get this, please.
Here comes Abraham up one side of the mountain.
A lamb was coming up the other side.
At the very time that he’s sacrificing here.
The Scripture says,
But his brother,
(Genesis 22:21)
Bethel begat Rebekah
(Genesis 22:23)
The moment he’s lifting his knife his brother bears Isaac’s wife.
What a God we serve!
Before we call He answers.