I will lift up my eyes to the hills-
from whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord
Who made heaven and earth.
(Psalm 121:1, 2)

Face of Man

Face of Man
Jacqueline du Pre

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Two Lines and anti Parallel

Genesis
Chapter 22

2 He said, “Take 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 that I shall show you.”
9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then Abraham reached out his hand took the knife to kill his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son from.”

Matthew
Chapter 27

22 Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” All of them said, “Let him be crucified!”
23 Then he asked, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
25 Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
31……then they led him away to crucify him.


God was truly pleased with Abraham’s obedience and faithfulness. And He reciprocated this gesture of faithfulness to Abraham and his children by sacrificing His Own Son Jesus. The irony, however, is that while God was only testing Abraham and spared Isaac’s life, children of Abraham, on the other hand, truly wanted the blood of God’s only Son.

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