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As we approached the mountain, Isaac said unto me, My father, we have with us the fire and the wood, but we have no lamb to serve as a burnt offering unto the Lord.
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Explain now unto me the mystery hidden in this thing that I may be obedient unto all which the Lord thy God requireth of me.
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Then I rejoiced, for I knew that the Lord had revealed in the heart of my son Isaac that which we must do.
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Therefore, I said unto him, Isaac, my son, the Lord hath chosen thee to be a perfect burnt offering unto him instead of a lamb.
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And this thing is a type of the Lord of spirits who is our first Father and his Only Begotten Son who is the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the earth.
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For surely God will offer his only Son as a sacrifice upon the cross to atone for our sins and for the sins of all mankind, that all men might be redeemed from the power of death and be brought to stand before the judgment bar of the great Jehovah to be judged according to their works, that every man might receive a righteous and just judgment and that mercy might have claim upon the penitent, the price of their sins having been paid by the Son of God.
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Yea, surely, my son, we have been chosen to represent the Father and the Son in this thing, and though I grieve to think of losing thee, my beloved, yet I rejoice that we are honored thus to represent God.