Jesus in the Old Testament is a series of posts that will offer my readers a chance to consider pictures or shadows of Jesus in the Old Testament. As mentioned in the introduction to this series, some may be obvious, some may be not so obvious, and some may simply be a facet of the Lord those reading may not have considered previously.

I hope as we venture through this series, we will see the Lord in many wonderful pictures throughout the Old Testament.

We are looking at the character of Abraham is relation the sacrificing for God. There are multiple passages where Abraham made sacrifice but I have chosen the greatest sacrifice he sought to provide His God for our text to review this time.

Abraham was willing to sacrifice his Son, and we often, rightly so, consider Abraham to be a type for God the Father. There is some room to consider Abraham to be a type of Jesus in this passage also, for as we consider Hebrews 10:12, notice that Jesus Himself offered a single sacrifice. He was acting as the One making the sacrifice, very similar to Abraham.

Upon this offering on the altar, He not only made the sacrifice, He was the sacrifice. This is too much for me to comprehend, and yet the Word speaks of this dual activity by the Master.

So not only was He the sacrifice, He was the Sacrificer, and proved to be the Greater than Abraham even in Abraham’s greatest sacrifice!

He is beyond comprehension, when considered in light of the Word’s testimony of His life and death, His love and grace to us, and His commitment to the Will of God!

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