From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 05 of 26 · Genesis 22

The ram in the thicket

God asks Abraham for Isaac, the son he loves. The boy carries the wood up the hill. A ram dies instead.

The text
God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.

The word

יִרְאֶה

He will see, He will see to it (yireh)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01Take your son

    Genesis 22:2

    God has given Abraham a boy in his old age. That boy is Isaac. Then God says: take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and offer him on a mountain I will show you.

  2. 02Wood on his back

    Genesis 22:6

    They walk three days. Abraham leaves the servants at the bottom. He puts the wood for the fire on Isaac. He himself carries the knife. The boy still does not know.

  3. 03Where is the lamb?

    Genesis 22:7

    Isaac looks around. Father, we have fire and wood. Where is the lamb for the offering? Abraham does not explain. God Himself will see to the lamb, my son.

  4. 04The knife

    Genesis 22:10

    Abraham builds the altar. He binds Isaac. He lays him on the wood. He takes the knife to kill his son. Then a voice: do not lay a hand on the boy. The test was real. The death is not.

  5. 05A ram instead

    Genesis 22:13

    Abraham looks up. A ram is stuck in a thicket by its horns. He offers the ram in Isaac’s place. He names the mountain The Lord Will See To It.

  6. 06Look, the Lamb of God

    John 1:29

    John does not invent a new picture. He points at a man and uses the old one. The ram was never the last word.

Meant to die

Isaac, the loved son, bound on the wood he carried up

Dies instead

A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns

Read it this way

The loved son was supposed to die on the wood he carried up. He did not. A ram, stuck in a bush by its horns, died in his place. Abraham names the mountain The Lord Will See To It. He is not hiding a code. He is naming what just happened.

Years later John points at Jesus and says, Look, the Lamb of God. Hebrews says Abraham already trusted God could raise the dead. Isaac lives because another dies in his place.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

John 1:29Hebrews 11:17

Some sayAbraham almost killing Isaac is a dark old story. Jesus is not in it.

Isaac walks back down because a ram dies on the wood. John later names who that ram was pointing at: the Lamb of God.

Open Genesis 22

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.