What does it mean that God is Jehovah-Jireh?
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What does it mean that God is Jehovah-Jireh? In what ways is God our provider? Who is Yahweh-Yireh?
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- What does it mean that God is Jehovah -Jireh? We're going to answer that question. You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org.
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- Jehovah -Jireh is one of the many different names of God found in the Old Testament. Jehovah -Jireh is the
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- King James Version's translation of meaning. It is the name memorialized by Abraham when
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- God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac. The story begins with a strange command from God to Abraham, instructing him to offer his son of promise,
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- Isaac, as a burnt offering. Early the next morning, Abraham packs wood and a knife, and he and Isaac travel to Moriah, the place
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- God had specified. As they near the site, Isaac questions Abraham concerning the intended offering.
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- Where is the lamb? With great faith and foresight, Abraham responds, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.
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- The New Testament tells us that Abraham believed God would raise Isaac from the dead. Upon reaching the place
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- God had chosen, Abraham demonstrates his faith and obedience by building an altar, binding
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- Isaac, and placing him on the wood. Before Abraham can finish the offering, the angel of the
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- Lord calls to him from heaven, and Isaac's life is spared. Then Abraham looked up, and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns.
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- He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it, as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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- Abraham names the place Jehovah -Jireh because of God's gracious provision of a substitute for Isaac.
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- Immediately afterwards, God reconfirms his covenant with Abraham. Centuries later, King Solomon would build the temple in the same location.
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- The account of Abraham on Mount Moriah thus becomes more than a dramatic illustration of faith and obedience.
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- It is a presentation of the Lord's eternal grace, continual provision, and all -encompassing wisdom.
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- Jehovah -Jireh is not the Lord did provide, but the Lord will provide.
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- In other words, the name does not simply memorialize a past event, it anticipates a future action.
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- Likewise, the statement, On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided, refers to more than Mount Moriah.
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- It also refers to a hill called Calvary, where God did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all.
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- Abraham's faith -filled statement that God himself will provide the lamb is a companion to John the
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- Baptist's exclamation, Jehovah -Jireh provided a sacrifice to save Isaac, and that action was a foreshadowing of the provision of his son for the salvation of the world.
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- That answers the question, what does it mean that God is Jehovah -Jireh? On our website, gotquestions .org,
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