The account of Genesis 17 [end] – 19 shows Abraham and Sarah were very old and childless.
The angels told Abraham that God was going to enable them to have a son, which they did – Abraham being 100 years old!
(The son he had through a concubine due to his wife’s lack of faith, years earlier, – and by her insistence, was viewed by the angels and God, as illegitimate. God had made it clear that the blessings He had spoken about wouldn’t be through that child, but through his ONLY SON, which he and his WIFE would have.)
Then, years later:
Genesis 22:02 And he [God] said, Take now thy SON, thine ONLY [SON] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the LAND OF MORIAH; and offer him there for a BURNT OFFERING upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. [By the words SON [singular] and ONLY this verse proves that God did /does not accept Ishmael – he was illegitimate – the word ONLY is the Hebrew word yachid, meaning only, solitary, unique, beloved – ALL THAT ADOPT ISLAM TAKE NOTE.]
There are no details telling us of the anguish that Abraham must have felt – but he didn’t hesitate, he got up early in the morning , travelled to Moriah, and was about to slaughter his ONLY BEGOTTEN SON as a sacrifice to his God, when an angel stops him.
Later, the apostle Paul said this about the event:
Hebrews 11:17 KJV By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son]. [The word begotten means derived from something which is already in existence. Note the parallel: Isaac was begotten of Abraham – Abraham existed before Isaac.]
Hebrews 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: [Genesis 21:12]
Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
The Wycliffe Bible states:
Hebrews 11:17 – By faith Abraham offered Isaac, when he was tempted ; and he offered the one begotten [son], which had taken the promises; 18 – to whom it was said, For in Isaac the seed shall be called to thee. 19 – For he deemed, that God is mighty to raise him, yea, from death; wherefore he took him also into a parable.
Parable , Figurative Way , Illustrative Way , as different translations put it.
Illustrative of WHAT?
The Trinity of the Father, a Ghost…and a Son ???
It is not a co-incidence that Jehovah God chose to refer to Jesus as His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
The events of Abraham were a fore-shadowed of the events of Jesus, and everyone knew what an ONLY BEGOTTEN SON was, until the clergy got a hold of it, convincing all that it just meant the Second God of the Trinity.
NOTHING in Scripture even HINTS at that.
[The “land of Moriah” is located in JERUSALEM, Israel, and is identified with the Temple Mount.] [The land of Moriah is a north-south stretch of land in JERUSALEM, between Kidron Valley and Hagai Valley.] [The land of Moriah is also where Solomon’s Temple was built.] [Today, the Temple Mount – a 35-acre platform built by King Herod on MOUNT MORIAH in the heart of JERUSALEM – is still standing. What’s missing is the first temple, built by king Solomon, and the second temple, built in place of the first one by King Herod and his predecessors.]
