THE WORD OF ELOHIM
GENESIS
Chapter 22
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It is disputed between the children of Israel and Islam, which son was truly sacrificed, Yischaq (Isaac) or Yishmael (Ishmael).
Elohim put Abraham to the test. He said to him, "Abraham," and he answered, "Here I am." And he said, "Take your son, your favored one, Yischaq, whom you love,
Consider this:
In most households where there is a step parent and a step child, in any community where a child is born out of wedlock, and in most faiths; it is the child that is born in wedlock that is considered the true heir.
Hagar and Yishmael were cast out approximately eighteen years earlier. They have been living in the desert of Paran and Yishmael has married a woman from Mitzramah (Egypt).
If Yishmael were offered up as a sacrifice, the loss would have been easier for Abraham to accept and recover from.
It was Yischaq that was offered up as a sacrifice and whom Elohim (God) intervened, after Abraham was tested.
Then Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the ass. The boy and I will go up there, we will worship, and we will return to you."
Please Note:
Genesis Chapter 12:
Elohim spoke to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation…
And…
Elohim said, "I will assign this land to you and your offspring.
Genesis Chapter 13:
Elohim said to Abram, after Lot had parted from him, "Raise your eyes and look out from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west, for I give all the land that you see to you and your offspring forever.
Genesis Chapter 15:
Elohim took him outside and said, "Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And he added, "So shall your offspring be."
And…
Elohim said to Abram, "Know well that your offspring shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years;
Genesis Chapter 17:
Elohim said to Abraham:
"I will make you exceedingly numerous."
"You shall be a father of a multitude of nations."
"I will make you exceedingly fertile, and make nations of you; kings shall come forth from you."
"I will maintain my covenant between me and you, and your offspring to come."
"I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come,"
Please Note: Yishmael was born in the previous chapter.
"As for you and your offspring to come,..." (The covenant of circumcision.)
And God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, you shall not call her Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she shall give rise to nations; rulers of peoples shall issue from her."
I have listed 11 moments when Elohim confirmed and reaffirmed that Abraham and his descendants, through Sarah, would be blessed and dwell upon the land that he now sojourned. There are several more passages between Genesis chapter 17 and 22 that reconfirm this.
In particular:
Genesis Chapter 21:
But Elohim said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Yischaq that offspring shall be continued for you.
―Abraham had every reason to believe: The boy and I will go up there, we will worship, and we will return to you."
Abraham may have been troubled as he journeyed to the place Elohim would show him; however and despite this, he also knew that Elohim would deliver Yischaq, one way or another. Otherwise, all of the things that Elohim had swore, would have been a lie, and Elohim cannot tell a lie.
Paragraph 4:
All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants
Again: Elohim has prophesied anti-
The nations would lift themselves up higher than the descendants of Abraham, through Yischaq, and treat them lowly.