“The Binding of Isaac” takes place when God tested Abraham,
telling him to take his son Isaac and offer him as a burnt offering on a
mountain that God would tell him of.
When Abraham was about to slay his son Isaac with a knife,
the angel of the LORD called to him out of heaven, telling Abraham to stop and
do his son no harm.
God provided a ram – which is an adult lamb – caught in a
tree to take the place of Isaac as the sacrifice, setting him free (Jubilee).
We can see the ram as a type and shadow of Christ. Jesus is
the Lamb of God that was caught by love on a tree, taking our place when we
were destined to die.
Instead, we, like Isaac, were set free. Isaac is a type and
shadow of us – we too are "a living sacrifice," set free by Christ.
The Jubilee year was the fiftieth. Then by the Mosaic law,
lands which had been sold reverted to their first owner, and slaves were to be
set free.
יובל (yo•bāl') means BOTH "ram's horn" AND
"Jubilee year." Yowbel (Strong’s 3104).
This Hebrew word for “ram's horn” is the same Hebrew word
for “jubilee year”. The ram's horn was used as a trumpet, calling God's people
to return to Him. It traces back to the ram caught in the thicket - a type and
shadow of Christ, the Lamb of God (ram is a male sheep), that took our place on
the tree to set us free. The ram caught in the thicket took Isaac's place as a
sacrifice, ("the binding of Isaac") setting him free. (Jubilee).
Isaac is a type and shadow of us - we are "a living sacrifice", set
free by Christ.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord. [The Jubilee Year]" - Luke 4:18-19 KJV
"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
... Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being
dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were
healed." - 1 Peter 2:22, 24 KJV
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service." - Romans 12:1 KJV
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