Going Deeper

When Abraham and Isaac went up the mountain (cf. Genesis 22) to give the Sacrifice God asked for; in a prophetic way Abraham represented God the Father and Isaac represented Jesus the Son. It is interesting to note that they went up together in friendship; just like Jesus and His Father went up to the cross in friendship; not animosity. Abraham did not kill his son…and this says that God the Father never killed His Son either because this story in Genesis is meant to be a foreshadowing of Calvary. God the Father went to give His Son to the world just like Abraham went to give his son to God; yet we so often get it wrong: Abraham never killed His son and neither did God kill His Son. Instead of embracing in friendship Jesus, we crucified and killed Him. And God used it to show us what was/is in our independent hearts, minds, wills, and imaginations (not His) just so He could heal us. Many people think that God sacrificed His Son by venting His hatred/revenge for our sins on His only Son. But this is a lie. God was in Christ reconciling the world to him self. God is love, He is not mean, anal, petty, or capricious.