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Episode 17: The Mountain of Sacrifice: Abraham, Isaac, and the God Who Provides: Genesis 22
Episode 17: The Mountain of Sacrifice
Abraham, Isaac, and the God Who Provides
Genesis 22
God's command is almost unbearable: take your son, your only son, and offer him as a sacrifice. For three deliberate days, Abraham walks toward Moriah with Isaac at his side, trusting that the God who gave him this son against every impossibility can be trusted even now.
When Isaac asks where the lamb is, Abraham answers with faith he cannot yet fully explain: "God will provide."
At the last possible moment, the angel of the Lord stops hishand, and a ram appears, caught in a thicket — a substitute, dying…
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