Jehovah Jireh

The LORD Who Provides

From Genesis 22, regarding the offering of Isaac on the altar:

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"  "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.

"The fire and the wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

Abraham answered, "God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."

You know the story:  Abraham builds the altar, binds Isaac and lays him on top of the wood.  As he reaches for the knife to slay his son an angel of the LORD calls out, "Abraham! Abraham!  Do not lay a hand on the boy...Now I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from Me your son, your only son."

Abraham looked up and...saw a ram...He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.  

So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide.

(Genesis 22:6,7,11-14)

In Hebrew the Name is Jehovah Jireh...The LORD Who Provides.

Did you know that not once in all 4 gospels is the lamb mentioned at the Last Supper, a requirement for the Passover Meal? (Exodus 12)  The cup, the bread, the bowl - all mentioned in the gospels.  Where is the Lamb?

God Himself will provide the Lamb for the burnt offering...

For God so loved the world He gave...

Jehovah Jireh

The God Who Provides

The New Testament is in the Old concealed; the Old Testament is in the New revealed.  It is one story and it all points to Jesus.