Genesis Chapter 22 Sometime later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied

Abraham

“The Lord said to Abraham: 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 I will bless you. So Abraham took his wife, Sarah, and they set out for the land of Canaan.”

“I am God Almighty. Walk in My ways and be blameless. I will establish My covenant with you, and I will make you as numerous as the stars. I assign the land you rest in to you and your offspring to come. I will be their God.”

1. 
   What was the covenant made between God and Abraham?
   
2. 
   Where was Abraham moving to?
   

Genesis Chapter 22

Sometime later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

² Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

³ Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. ⁴ On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. ⁵ He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

⁶ Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, ⁷ Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

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

⁸ Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

⁹ When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. ¹⁰ Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. ¹¹ But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

¹² “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

¹³ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram^[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

3. 
   What did this story prove to God about Abraham?
   
4. 
   Why did Abraham not have to go through sacrificing his son?
   
5. 
   How is this a comparison to what happens later in history with God and Jesus?