"Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." - And God delivered a ram, stuck in a bush...
Isn't Jesus the Ram of God, with 7 horns and 7 eyes?
Isn't it strange that God provided the Ram many years after Abraham and Isaac?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
May all of you be blessed for that Great Ram that God provided!
It's just strange that some mock the Bible, yet they cannot see how perfect it really is.
When God makes a promise, who can go against it?
God promised the Ram, and the Ram delivered more than we would know.
And in the time of Abraham it was shown...
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." - Revelation 13:8 (Meaning the Son of God was sacrificed before the creation of the Earth. Before even Adam.)
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
"And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." - Revelation 5:6
Let those who have ears to hear, let them hear!
Great analysis. Those who doubt this happened (in 1969 BC, I say) are not following historiographic procedure in recognizing the ancientness of texts. This demonstrates not only the prevalence of idolatrous child sacrifice in the land of Canaan, but also the fact that Abraham was called to demonstrate instead the true model, the loving father who gives up his son willingly for the sake of the world. The false sacrifice model goes way back, at least as far as a guy named Naram-Sin grandson of Sargon, and earlier versions exist as well; but covenant people always had enough of the true sacrifice model (Seed of the Woman) to speak truth to their generation and overcome all the destructive conspiracy of the day.