- CHART BELOW: Comparing Abraham: the father of faith with God: the Father of the Faithful and True.
Isaac is the metaphor for the prophecy of Jesus introducing Grace, replacing the law of burnt offerings. - As Jesus, also Isaac
| Abraham and ISAAC: Faith and Grace | The Father and JESUS (HEBREW: YESHUA) |
| 1. Offered to be sacrificed on Passover | 1. Offered to be sacrificed on Passover |
| 2. Abraham’s only son of promise | 2. The Father’s only Son of promise |
| 3. On Mount Moriah Genesis 22:2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” | 3. On Mount Moriah II Chronicles 3:1 Solomon Builds the Temple Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
| 4. A Ram with its horns caught in the thorns | 4. A Crown of Thorns John 19:2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head… |
| 5. Isaac obeyed his father | 5. Obeyed his father |
| 6. Laid on wood | 6. Laid on wood |
| 7. Seven Days (3 days traveling there, the day of sacrifice, 3 days return home) | 7. Seven Days (3 days teaching in the temple, the day of sacrifice, 3 days in the grave) |
| 8. Isaac returned alive | 8. Jesus came back alive |
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