<TITLE>17. Par 159-169</TITLE>L-159 Then he took the wood and put it on Isaac's back; the cross, God's Son years later. And Isaac packed the wood up the hill, that he was going lay on for a sacrifice: foreshadowing.
If God foreshadowed that to a dot; Lot's wife, don't you turn around and look back towards the things of the world. All those types and shadows are perfect. See? Remember Eve. Remember Lot's wife. Remember Lot himself, you men. Remember, Adam give in to his wife, Lot, the same way. Be careful. I'm just telling you as a brother. It's later than you think.
Notice little Isaac going up the hill, and he got suspicious. And he looked around, and he said, "My father?"
And he said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the wood. And here is all, everything, the fire. But where is the lamb for the burnt-offering."
Listen to that old daddy without a quiver in his voice; he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the sacrifice." His only son going to the slaughter, but yet that faithful old heart had knowed that God can't lie...
That's the Seed of Abraham today. "How can it be, Brother Branham?" God will provide for Himself. "How's He going to?" I don't know. But He's Jehovah-jireh.

L-165 Got up to the top of the hill, rolled up the rock, put the wood on the rocks, and lit it with the fire. Said, "Isaac, my son, turn around." He took the string from around his waist, and bound his hands and his feet. Isaac, obedient as Christ was to death, laid him up on the block. Reached down in his sheath and pulled out the big knife, honed it a few times, looking up towards the sky.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, knowing that he had received him as one from the dead: fully persuaded that if God said so, for him to do it, He could raise him up from the dead. That's Abraham, and that's his seed after him. If that was the natural seed, what ought the royal Seed to be? Not staggering. What God said, God will do. Knowing that he was fully persuaded, that what God had promised, God was able to do.

L-167 Honed the knife; little Isaac's little dark, eyes watching that big sharp blade as it went over the stone. Reached back; throwed back the curls off his face, pulled his little chin back, raised up, and the tears running down his face like that, knowing that he staggered not at the promise of God, raised his hand to plunge the knife into his own son's throat, and when he did, the voice of God called out, and caught his hand, said, "Abraham. Abraham, stay your hand. I know now that you love Me." What was He doing? Giving a testimony to the Seed of Abraham after him. "Stay your hand; don't harm this child. I know that you love Me."

L-169 And about that time, Abraham heard something behind him. And he looked, and there was a ram (That's a male sheep.) caught by his horns in the weeds and bushes. And Abraham went and got the ram and killed it instead of his son.
Where did that ram come from? He's a hundred miles from civilization. Why, the wild beasts would've killed it if it'd been back there. Sure, it's a--it's a domestic animal. Where did it come from? And besides, it's way up on top the mountain, where there's no grass nor water. And Abraham picked up rocks all around where it was to make the altar. Where did it come from? It wasn't a vision; it bled. A vision don't bleed. Hallelujah. Jehovah-jireh had provided Himself a sacrifice.


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