I was astounded. As I was driving to Michigan on a business trip, it came to me: that father Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice His only remaining son was a parallel. God said, “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac” [i] and sacrifice him on a pile of wood. That was a foreshadowing of Father God’s willingness to sacrifice His only Son on the Cross.
At that moment, I was a changed person. Why had no one before informed this young man of the meaning of that? Since then, when reading the Old Testament, I ask myself, “What has this to do with Jesus?” The entire Old Last Will and Testament has much ado with God’s heirs. It is God’s Will for His Son and sons.
With that new insight, Jesus became real. He IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. He was there with the patriarchs all the time, and now He is with those who love and honor Him by doing His Will.
My eyes were opened, and I saw the Person Jesus in the Entity God. That moment was my own “Jehovahjireh” — “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.” What does that even mean? Examine the occasion in scripture:
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And The Angel of the Lord called unto him out of Heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham”: and he said, “Here am I.”
12 And He said, “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me.”
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
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.” (Gen 22:10-14)
Abraham would take his knife to slay his son who was mounted atop some wood. He would be the innocent soldier who was only doing reasonable service by piercing Isaac. Also, Abraham, therein, is the father. It would be him that would be “the bloody husband”; the same accusation that Zipporah would make against Moses. [ii]
As with Abraham, Moses’s willingness but inability to shed blood was counted to him as faith. It is not the deed that is so important but the willingness. With Abraham, his spirit was willing, but his flesh was weak, in this case. He would have done it! Moses’s flesh was weak, and Zipporah the Egyptian would be the “bloody wife”.
In the case of Jesus, JHVH would do the bloody deed. In other words, Jesus would sacrifice Himself whereas Abraham would only sacrifice his son. That would not be efficacious; it would take self-sacrfice to please God. He said that: “I (Paul) beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Rom 12:1). Jesus would do that, but Abraham was only asked to present his son. The perfect sacrifice would have to wait.
Next consider, “The Angel of the Lord called unto him out of Heaven.” That “Angel” is a specific Messenger. Later, Jacob would wrestle with a “man”. Afterwards, Jacob, renamed “Israel” after winning the bout, said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” [iii] That is theophoric — the Man- God is called “Jesus” and that means “Ya Preserves”. That is shorthand for “Yahweh Preserves”. Jacob had encountered Jesus and even called Him that. Jacob named that place “Peniel”, meaning, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” Jacob had seen the face of God and lived. After that time until Jesus was born, as Moses found out, there would be no “Peniel moment” for anyone. That was Jacob’s “Jehovahjireh” moment.
Jacob saw God face-to-Face and lived. His life was preserved. Abraham had his “Peniel Moment” as well! He saw into the future: “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.” What shall be seen? The Face of God on the Cross right there!
Of course, it is not positive identification, but many theologians and archeologists believe that Mount Moriah was not the Foundation Stone but Calvary. As “Golgotha” it was “the place of the skull.” [iv]
The pentagram is the symbol of the Devil Satan. (Figure #1 shows the Kabbalistic Ram Pentagram, but some show a goat’s head).
Figure 1: Pinterest; "Kabbalistic Symbol Pentagram in 2021"
The ram that God provided was symbolic. “Satan” would vicariously be sacrificed that day on Calvary — the place of the ram’s skull, and perhaps the place of Adam’s skull. [1]
The ram represents Judas Iscariot who Satan had entered. [v] Just as the ram was the actual sacrifice for Isaac, and Isaac lived but the ram died; the same goes for Judas. Jesus lived but Judas died. Apparently, the ram had Satan in it because both flesh and sin would need to be sacrificed, and the ram was made sin for Isaac. In this sacrifice, Isaac would not be made sin, but the ram would be.
On the other hand, Judas represented the flesh of Canaan’s kind (Iscariot) and the agony and death of Jesus was the wrestling match between God and Satan. Jesus won that wrestling match. They fought to the death; Judas died, Satan fled until his time, but Jesus lived on in Body and Spirit!
Scripture says that the sacrfice would be, “a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.” Think on that: a grown male lamb (ARIES) caught by its horns. The birth of Abraham introduced the Age of Aries, and of all things, the ram (ARIES) is the symbol of that age and of Satan! But Satan sacrificed rather than alive. The ram (ARIES) was a promise of things to come: “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.” An efficacious sacrifice would be what is coming. “It” was the sacrifice that Jesus would make but includes the death of Satan. Judas would be the New Testament “Ram”.
The birth of Jesus coincided with the waning of the Age of Aries and the dawning of the Age of Pisces. No longer would the ram be sufficient. God Himself would suffer and die on the Cross, undoubtedly on Mount Moriah. This time, the ram would be sacrificed in the Valley of Gehenna and Satan would return to Hell wherein there would be a spiritual “wrestling match” between the Devil that was in Judas and the Holy Ghost of Jesus. The flesh of Judas was in Hell all the while the Flesh of God was resting peacefully in the protection of Joseph’s “womb” (Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb).
The ram caught by its horns in a thicket is symbolic of two events: (1) Jesus, the Lamb of God, with a crown of thorns, and (2) Judas hanging from a tree before he died.
I believe that Abraham saw Judas as dead with Satan in him as the imperfect, and Jesus crucified as the Perfect Sacrifice. That was his Jehovahjireh.
As a young man, I had my Jehovahjireh — I saw what happened
on Mount Moriah with Isaac as a foreshadowing of the crucifixion of Jesus.
However, I never saw the rest of the story. Only this year, I saw “Baphometjireh”.
The symbol of Baphomet is a half-human and half-animal being which certainly
applies to Judas with Satan in him. I saw the vision of Judas as the sacrifice
of the ram. I finally saw the rest of the story!
[1] See my commentary in my book, The Skull ofAdam, available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-A-Million.
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