DID YOU KNOW?
"One of the most powerful glimpses of the Gospel appears in the Book of Genesis, chapter 22.

God commands Abraham to offer Isaac—his promised son, the one through whom the covenant would continue, as a sacrifice.

As they climbed the mountain, Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice. Abraham walked beside him with the fire and the knife in his hands.

Then Isaac asked a question that sits at the heart of the story:

“The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
— Genesis 22:7

Abraham responded with remarkable faith:

“God Himself will provide the lamb.”
— Genesis 22:8

Just as Abraham raised the knife, the angel of the Lord stopped him. Looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught in a thicket by its horns.

— Genesis 22:13

The sacrifice had already been provided.

The ram became the substitute.
Isaac was spared.
Another life was given so the son could live.

Abraham named the place:

“The Lord will provide.”
— Genesis 22:14

Centuries later, in that same region, another Son would walk up a hill carrying wood on His back.

But this time there would be no ram.

Because the Lamb God promised had come.

Jesus was placed on the wood, a crown of thorns pressed into His head, the innocent sacrificed for the guilty.

The account of Abraham and Isaac was never only about obedience.
It was a glimpse of what was coming.

A shadow of the cross long before Calvary.

The ram in the thicket was a sign pointing forward.

From the beginning of Scripture, God was already revealing the story of redemption.

Before the nails were driven.
Before the cross was raised.
The Lamb had already been promised.