For Isaac’s sacrifice, God commanded Abraham to go to the “Land of Moriah” to a certain mountaintop that would be pointed out to him. Over a thousand years later, King Solomon built YHVH’s temple on this very site.  It stood for about 400 years until King Nebuchadnezzar’s armies destroyed it sometime in 587 B.C. It […]

But the angel of Adonai called to him out of heaven: “Avraham? Avraham!” He answered, “Here I am.” He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy! Don’t do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” -Genesis […]

In a previous post I mentioned that it is not so easy to conform every manifestation of God in the Scriptures to the limited teaching of the trinity. Second, I also mentioned that the teaching of the trinity has the tendency to impart the idea that God can be separated into three different pieces. Like […]

Yeshua said to the religious leaders of his day, “if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for Moses wrote about me.” I cannot think of any other part of the Bible that so foreshadows Yeshua’s crucifixion on the cross than Genesis Chapter 22. The prophetic elements are so compelling. If you are witnessing to […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 22. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. In traditional Judaism, the sacrifice of Isaac holds such special significance that it has been given a special name. It is called “Akedah“. “Akedah” means “to bind” or “the binding” referring to Isaac being bound […]