Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. I. Look at the words AS THEY BEAR ON THAT GRAND CENTRAL EVENT IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY TO WHICH THEY HAD A PROSPECTIVE REFERENCE, AND IN WHICH THEY WERE DESTINED TO FIND THEIR FULL ACCOMPLISHMENT. For in this same place nearly two thousand years after — on or near the spot to which Abraham gave the name of "Jehovah will provide" — Jehovah did provide a Lamb for a burnt-offering, whose death will be the theme of all heaven throughout eternity! God never knew another from the beginning. I doubt not that Isaac was a Divinely ordained type of Him. Was Isaac the child of the promise? The true Child of the promise was Christ. Was Isaac long promised and long waited for before his birth? Four thousand years elapsed, of promise and long expectation, ere Simeon took up the Child Jesus in his arms, saying, "Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." Was Isaac's birth supernatural? "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Did Isaac meekly submit to be bound to the altar on the wood? "He is led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth." But here the resemblances seem to stop. Or, if there be anything, as I doubt not there is much, in the semblance of Isaac's death and resurrection, yet assuredly it is here but a shadow. For no sinner might ever die to expiate sin; and our God never would have a human sacrifice even to prefigure the true. But now behold, at last, "the Man that is God's fellow!" Behold the Lamb for a burnt-offering — O yes, consumed by the fire of that Divine holiness and justice, of which the fire of all the burnt-offerings was but the shadow. II. "HATH APPEARED." Abraham used the future tense — will provide. Are you in deep perplexity as to your path, and fearful of taking a false step? Write Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide counsel. The name of this Lamb is Wonderful, Counsellor — "I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way in which thou shelf go; I will guide thee with Mine eye." Are you called to some arduous duty? Write Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide strength — "My strength is made perfect in weakness." Are you straitened as to temporal provision? Write still this word, Jehovah-jireh, for "your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things." Do you anticipate painfully the conflict with the last enemy? Write Jehovah-jireh — "O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction." And as for the eternity beyond, still write Jehovah-jireh, for "the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." (C. J. Brown, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. |
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