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Tablet Three
Abraham is tested by the Lord
And it came to pass after these things, that
God did tempt
Abraham, and
said unto him,
Abraham: and he
said, Behold, here
I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get
thee into the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a
burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee
of.
(Genesis 22:1-2)
And they came to the place which
God
had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood
in
order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon
the wood.
And
Abraham
stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the
angel of the Lord
called unto him out of
heaven,...
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 22:9-12)
<1>God
was testing Abraham to
see how detached he was.
God demanded him to
sacrifice his son
whom he had received in old age from Him. <2>Abraham
proved that he understood the realities behind this universe with
complete detachment. He realized that
God had given him the child and now He wanted him back.
<3>A
child is not the parent's but
God's. So, with complete
surrendering,
Abraham was ready to
give up Isaac. That is why
Abraham is the symbol
of being surrendered to the Lord's Will, and that is how he passed
the test.
And
Abraham called
the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day,
In the mount of the
Lord it shall be seen.
And the
angel of the Lord
called unto Abraham
out of
heaven the
second time,
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the
Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of the heaven, and
as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed
shall possess the gate of his enemies;
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
(Genesis 22:14-18)
<4>God
was very pleased with Abraham, to see that he was so detached and obedient. He was
ready to
sacrifice
his "only son1" left at home for
God's sake and demand. <5>That was a great sign of being
surrendered and ready to
sacrifice all for His
Will.
<6>That is why
God
was so pleased that He gave Abraham an
unconditional
blessing and promise, with no covenant necessary this time. <7>God
blessed him with the highest blessing by saying, "in blessing I will
bless thee."
God
would multiply his seed numerously, and his "seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies." In
Abraham's offspring, all the nations of the earth would be
blessed, with no condition necessary, only for
Abraham's sake.
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1 Note: We can see here that it
says that Isaac was the "only son" of Abram (Abraham). Of
course we know that this is not true as Abram (Abraham) also had
Ishmael, from Hagar. The Koran says that the son that
God commanded to be sacrificed was Ishmael. The truth is that
God commanded Abram (Abraham) to sacrifice both. This of
course has been changed in the Bible by those who tried hard
to exclude Ishmael and promote Isaac. This is corrected in the
Koran, and Ishmael is also included in this event!
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