Received Back from the Grave

In Isaac's life, we see a foretelling of some aspects of the life of our Lord Jesus.

Both were long awaited, dearly beloved, yet handed over to death by their fathers. Both were obedient to their fathers, and in both all the hopes and promises were to be fulfilled.

Isaac and Abraham portrayed, at the altar atop Mount Moriah, how Abraham's seed through Isaac, our blessed Lord Jesus, would rescue Abraham and Isaac and all the family of faith by His substitution in our place in the judgment for sin.

The Scriptures tell us that Abraham accounted God able to raise Isaac from the dead to fulfill all His promises through Isaac, and that he did receive Isaac back from the grave, at least in a figure.

The patriarchs believed in the resurrection of the dead - that death could not frustrate God's love toward His people.

But just as Abraham received back Isaac from the grave, so too God the Father received back His dear son by resurrection from the dead, hallelujah!

Indeed, the Father had solemnly promised the Son that He would not suffer Christ to see corruption in the grave. What Abraham believed by faith, God the Father and God the Son had sure knowledge of by solemn oath of promise!

So Abraham's faith in God's power to Resurrection was vindicated when God raised up Jesus Who was slain to save His people!

How sad that God's people in the time of Christ's ministry did not share Abraham's confident assurance in God's power to fulfill all His promises in Isaac by resurrection if need by.

They stumbled upon Christ's death, as if somehow it meant God's promises in Him would fall to the ground. But He is confirmed as our Prince and Savior for all eternity.