A Pirate Christian's Guide to the Old Testament Part 3

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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough, I am your servant in Jesus Christ, and this is part three of the series we're doing titled,

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A Pirate Christian's Guide to Understanding the Old Testament. So let me ask you right up front, what do you think of that story of God asking

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Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Now if you've listened to bad preaching on this text, and believe me when

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I tell you there's a lot of really bad sermons on this text, over and again the person who's preaching will say that, you see this text is telling you that you need to be willing to sacrifice that thing, whatever that thing is, to God, and you don't need to hang on to it.

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Once you sacrifice it to God, then God's gonna give it back to you, or some kind of nonsense like that.

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Yeah, no, if you've heard sermons like that, go ahead and hit the subscribe button down below, don't forget to like the video, and ring the bell, because that's not what this text is about at all.

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In fact, if you haven't watched part 1 and part 2 of A Pirate Christian's Guide to Understanding the

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Old Testament, you really need to do that now, and let's see, we'll put it, we'll put a link up in here, in this region.

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I think that's where it's gonna go. Anyway, and so that you can watch those first before you get to this, because chapter 22 of Genesis, and those of you who know what

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I'm saying, I say this is a foundational text. Those of you who know the referent will go, oh, that's a terrible pun.

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Anyway, but you'll, maybe you'll get the joke by the end of the video. So what we're gonna do is we're going to demonstrate that this text really is about Jesus, and I have been debating with myself, do

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I want to do the geography first, or do I want to read the story first?

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And I've decided what I'm gonna, what we're gonna do is we're gonna read Genesis 22, we'll note a few interesting things about the text, and and one of them has to do with the

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Hebrew word ra 'ah, and we'll take a look at how that's used in in Genesis 22.

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Then we're gonna skip ahead to 1st Chronicles 21, and you go, what are we going there for?

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Oh, don't worry, when we're done with that, we're gonna go into 2nd Chronicles chapter 3. Believe me when

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I tell you, all of this has everything to do with the fact that this text is about Jesus, because that's where you kind of flesh this all out.

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Yeah, okay, all right, so relax, we'll work our way through this, and don't worry,

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I'll show you all of the relevant stuff. So let's whirl up the Bible here, and let's get to it.

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Genesis chapter 22, let's start reading and see what's going on here, because there's something fascinating going on here.

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Remember, Jesus himself says scriptures are about him, and if you pay attention to the details, you're gonna go, there's something weird about this text, and right, because the weird things actually point to Jesus.

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I'll explain that. So after these things, God tested Abraham, and he said to him,

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Abraham, and he said, here I am, and he said, take your son, your only son, Itzhak. Now, when was

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Isaac born? The Hebrew, by the way, is Itzhak. When was he born?

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Before or after Ishmael? After Ishmael. So Abraham, at this point, has how many sons?

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Two. So what's this, your only son stuff? And I would argue that that's kind of like your, you know, linguistic grammatical clue that something funky is going on here, because God is seeing through the lineage of Abraham, because up to this point,

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Isaac isn't, he's not married yet, and so because he's not married yet, the lineage of the

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Messiah has come to Itzhak, and no further. He hasn't gone any further.

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So you'll note that there is this thing that happens in the Old Testament, and that is that when the line of the

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Messiah has come to one point and hasn't progressed any further, oftentimes weird things happen, and this is one of those.

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So take your son, your only son, and since I already tell you this is really about Jesus, I would note that there's some fascinating language that we should pay attention to in the

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Gospel of John chapter 1 and chapter 3, chapter 3, 16 in particular, but listen to how these texts read.

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John 1 18. No man has seen God at any time. The monogenes theos, the only begotten

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God who is in the bosom of the Father, he has explained him. So, and then the verse that everyone's familiar with,

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John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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The monogenes, you know, tan huion tan monogenes, you know, the son, the only begotten, is how that reads in the

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Greek. Okay, we've got that kind of hammered out there. So I would argue that this your son, your only son, kind of harkens to that only begotten son talk about Jesus, the monogenes theos, the only begotten

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God, the tan huion tan monogenes, the only begotten son.

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This is what this is referring to. So take your son, your only son, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which

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I shall tell you. All right, now he's gonna go to Mount Moriah. Do you know where Mount Moriah is today?

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Some of you might know and some of you probably have never been told this. We'll work this out, but note that this is an important spot.

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This is like super -dee - duper important. This is like ground zero important kind of spot, but well,

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I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's keep reading. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, took two of his young men with him and his son, and he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which

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God had told him. What was Jesus writing when he entered

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Jerusalem in his triumphal entry, you know, Palm Sunday? A donkey, the cult, the foal of a donkey, right?

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Just saying, it's just, you know, these are connection points that seem to be parallel.

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So on the third day, verse 4 says, yeah, I got to pay attention to that third day stuff.

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I mentioned that in part 2 of Pirate Christian's Guide to Understand the Old Testament. That third day stuff always usually points you to Jesus.

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So on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and he saw, and the

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Hebrew verb is ra 'ah, and that's kind of an important thing here. This verb is going to show up.

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Now, ra 'ah is its lexical form, but it's gonna show up several times here.

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So on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and he saw the place from afar.

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Not a throwaway bit of detail, because ra 'ah is gonna come up in this text as well as First Chronicles 21.

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So then Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.

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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, laid it on Isaac his son.

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I'm just saying, this sounds like a dress rehearsal for Jesus's crucifixion, because Jesus was made to carry his cross for a bit, had a hard time doing so, he ended up struggling and collapsing under the load, but just saying,

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Isaac is the one being sacrificed and he's carrying the wood for his own offering.

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It's weird, right? So he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and so both of them together, and Isaac said to his father,

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Abraham, my father, and he said, here I am, my son. He said, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

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That's a good question. Where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And then Abraham says something, and like no truer words could possibly be said.

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So Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.

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So they went, both of them together. And when they came to the place of which God had told him,

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Abraham built the altar there. Now note, this is an important little detail too.

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What does Abraham do when he gets there? He builds an altar. Remember, this is the place that he saw,

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Ra 'ah, from afar. So he gets there and he built the altar there, laid the wood in order, and bound

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Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.

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Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife to slaughter his son, but the angel of Yahweh, and now this is kind of an interesting bit here.

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The malach, the angel of Yahweh, many would argue this is none other than Jesus himself.

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Yeah, so when the angel of the Lord shows up, it's a big deal. When the angel of Yahweh shows up, oftentimes we're dealing with a theophany and a pre -incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ.

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But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, and listen to this, Abraham, Abraham.

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You know, I can think of a couple other places where Jesus talks like this. You think of on the road to Damascus, the

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Saul of Tarsus is on his way there to round up Christians and arrest them, right? And he appears to him in a bright light and ends up blinding him, but what does he say to him?

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Saul, Saul. Or you think of when Jesus corrects

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Martha. You know, when she's doing all the cooking and cleaning and her sister Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus doing nothing except for receiving from Jesus, and she says, tell

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Jesus, you tell her to help me. Jesus says to her, Martha, Martha.

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So here an interesting thing happens. The angel of Yahweh says to him,

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Abraham, Abraham. And he said, here I am.

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And he said, do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him for now

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I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your, here it is again, your son, your only son from me.

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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and he looked. Abraham lifted up his eyes and he looked, he saw.

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And behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.

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And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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So the Lord himself will provide the sacrifice.

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And he did. Here we've got a ram caught in a thicket. Let me ask you, when you think of thickets, what kind of foliage are we talking about here?

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You know, the kind of foliage that usually has thorns. Uh -huh. So you'll note that this ram is caught in a thicket on Mount Moriah, and say that this ram is caught, well, by a crown of thorns.

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Interesting, right? So Abraham went, took the ram, offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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So this ram becomes Itzhak's substitute. Mm -hmm. Important stuff.

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So Abraham called the name of that place, and here's where we need to take a look at, like, the literal translation of the text.

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He called the name of the place, and I'll highlight this in the Hebrew, Yahweh Yichre.

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Yahweh Yichre. And Yichre is the, is the call in perfect third masculine singular of the

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Hebrew word Ra 'ah, to see.

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So I know the ESV says Yahweh will provide, but a stiff wooden translation of the

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Hebrew here is, the name of the place is Yahweh will see.

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That's weird. Okay. I'm curious right now, I'm gonna check something, and there's this thing called the

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Young's Literal Translation. I want to see what the Young's, Yahweh Yirah.

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It doesn't even translate it! The Young's Literal Translation does not even translate it.

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Oh, these people cheesed out. Okay, so the Young's Literal Translation just gives it the, you know, the

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Hebrew itself. Yahweh Yichre. Yahweh will, and then the literal translation would be, see.

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Yahweh will see. And as it is said to this day, on the

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Mount of Yahweh, it shall be provided. And you, we only can say here, it will be seen,

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Yahweh. Yeah, I just, working with the Hebrew, it's a little, it's a little tough to pull this over into English, but you get the idea here.

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But the literal translation is, Yahweh will see. All right, all right. So what do we do with that?

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Yahweh will see on this mountain. It is said of this place. The name is called Yahweh Yichre.

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What do we do with that? Well, let's take a look at the fulfillment of this prophecy and where the fulfillment takes place.

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Now remember, at this place on Mount Moriah, Abraham built an altar.

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I know of another fellow who built an altar at that exact same place, that same mountain.

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And here's where that story is told. 1st Chronicles 21.

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This is the account of David calling for a census, contrary to what

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God has told Israel. He's going to disobey God here, and he's gonna call for a census.

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And what he's gonna do is evil and wicked in God's sight, and well, something terrible is gonna happen, and something wonderful, too.

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So 1st Chronicles 21. So Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.

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So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, go number Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report that I may know their number.

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But Joab said, May Yahweh add to his people a hundred times as many as they are.

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Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this?"

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Yeah, why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel? But the king's word prevailed against Joab, so Joab departed, went throughout all

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Israel, came back to Jerusalem, and Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David.

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In all Israel there were 1 ,100 ,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470 ,000 who drew the sword.

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But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in numbering, for the king's command was abhorrent to Joab.

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And I would note the next verse is gonna make it clear this was abhorrent to God also. So God was displeased with the thing and he struck

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Israel. And David said to God, I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. And you're gonna note here, here we have an example of one man's sin and everybody being guilty because of it.

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This is kind of a recurring theme. I can think of one man's sin that has had a huge impact on me as well as you, and that would be the sin of Adam.

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Mm -hmm. Yeah, so you'll note here that there is a sense in which one person's sin causes the entire nation, everybody, to become guilty.

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That's David's sin here. So pay attention because something amazing is going on here.

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So God was displeased with the thing and he struck Israel. David said to God, I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing, but now please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.

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And Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, this will be his prophet, saying, go and say to David, thus says

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Yahweh, three things I offer you. Choose one of them that I may do it to you.

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So Gad came to David and said to him, thus says Yahweh, choose what you will, either three years of famine or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, pestilence on the land, with the angel of Yahweh, uh -huh, the angel of Yahweh himself, destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.

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Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me. So then

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David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of Yahweh, for his mercy is very great.

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So David knows God, and not only that, he knows that God's mercy and forgiveness is great.

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So, but do not let me fall into the hand of man. So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel.

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70 ,000 men of Israel fell, and God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it.

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But as he was about to destroy it, listen to what the text says, Yahweh saw.

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Uh -huh. And it's the same verb. This is just amazing. So, and it reads in the

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Hebrew that ra -ah, he saw, Yahweh is the subject.

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Ra -ah, Yahweh. Remember what it said in Genesis 22.

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And it said in Genesis 22 that, that the name of that place is, was named by Abraham, was

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Yahweh Yih -reh, Yahweh will see.

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And then here in 1st Chronicles 21, it says, as the angel of the

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Lord was going to destroy Jerusalem, it just literally says Yahweh saw. Yahweh saw.

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There's the fulfillment of the name of the place. Yahweh saw.

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What did he see? What did he see? Hmm. This is, well, what he saw is a very important place.

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The place where Jesus was gonna be crucified. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.

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So anyway, so Yahweh saw. And he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, it is enough.

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Now stay your hand. And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornon the

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Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven.

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Now a little bit of a note here. When Jesus was crucified, where was he standing?

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Between heaven and earth. While he was on the cross, he was between, standing between heaven and earth.

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So here we have the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven. And his hand, in his hand was a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem for, because of sin.

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And he's gonna punish, right? And so how do, how do we get the angel of Lord to sheath his sword?

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Well, that's the place where Yahweh saw, right? So, so then David and the elders, they clothed in sackcloth, they fell on their faces.

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And David said to God, was it not I who gave the command to number the people? It is

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I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand,

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O Yahweh, my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.

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And so here's the thing, David is the one who committed the sin. He needs a substitute. He, his, he can't, yeah, he, he needs a sacrifice.

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So now the angel of Yahweh had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornon the

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Jebusite. And we're gonna find out where this place is in just a minute here. Unmistakably, it's amazing.

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All right, so, build an altar on the floor of Ornon the Jebusite. So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of Yahweh.

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Now Ornon was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

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As David came to Ornon, Ornon looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.

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David said to Ornon, give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh.

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Notice that this place was a threshing floor. That's where the wheat and the chaff are separated.

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Man, think about the implications here. Those who believe in Christ are the wheat.

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Those who don't believe in Christ and what he's done for them on the cross are the chaff. The cross is the dividing point.

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It is the real threshing floor of all of humanity. So this little theme here is just important.

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So, give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh. Give it to me at its full price that the plague may be averted from the people.

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Then Ornon said to David, take it. Let my Lord the King do what seems good to him. See, I have given the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for the grain offering.

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I give it all to, I give it all. David said, the King David said to Ornon, no, I will buy them for the full price.

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I will not take for the Yahweh what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing. So David paid

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Ornon 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site and David built there an altar to Yahweh and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on Yahweh and Yahweh answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

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That's right, the same kind of fire that Elijah called down from heaven that burnt up his offering.

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The Lord answered David's prayer with fire from heaven. And where is this spot exactly?

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The place of the threshing floor of Ornon, the Jebusite, because here this is,

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I'm gonna argue, you're gonna see it quite clearly in a second, this is the second time an altar to Yahweh has built there, been built there.

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So then Yahweh commanded the angel, after the sacrifice has been sacrificed at that very specific place, the angel commanded the, then

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Yahweh commanded the angel and he put his sword back into its sheath. So where's the spot?

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Well, 2nd Chronicles 3 says it quite clearly, verse 1, 2nd

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Chronicles 3, then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh, Solomon's the son of David, in Jerusalem, where?

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On Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father at the place that David had appointed on the threshing floor of Ornon, the

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Jebusite. He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

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Yeah, important spot, don't you think? So Abraham built an altar there,

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David built an altar there, and his sacrifice was accepted by fire from heaven. Solomon built the temple on this spot,

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Mount Moriah. So now we know where this took place. If Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah, that means that the

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Temple Mount is where Mount Moriah is. Right.

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Let's take a look. So if we were to Google, go to, you know, maps .google

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.com and Google, Dome of the Rock, and this would be what would come up, and you'll note that here, the

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Dome of the Rock is on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and you're gonna note that it says, Islamic Shrine Housing Foundation Stone.

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Mm -hmm. It's gonna be important, we'll talk about that in a minute. But let's, let's, shall we do, take a step back.

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Let's head just east of the Dome of the Rock, and on, you know, east of, directly east of the

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Dome of the Rock is the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane. You can see them both here,

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Gethsemane, as well as the Mount of Olives. That's just east of the

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Dome of the Rock, which is kind of smack dab in the middle of the Temple Mount itself.

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Now there's no temple there, because God, in his judgment, judged Israel and scraped the

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Temple Mount, Temple off the Temple Mount, and it sits in a rubble heap off to one side of the Temple Mount, but you kind of got the idea.

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So just, just east is the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane, so let's take a look at the

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Temple Mount, shall we? And this is a photograph, this is a panographic photograph taken from the

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Mount of Olives, and you can see here we've got a valley, and, you know, this valley then, at the very bottom of it, you begin to ascend a hill, and that hill is

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Mount Moriah, Mount Moriah. Remember, 2nd

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Chronicles 3 says Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, where?

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On Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared. The place where Abraham said, the name of the place will be

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Yah -weh -yeh -reh, Yahweh will see, that's the place where Yahweh saw, right?

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What did he see? Well, this is Mount Moriah, this is where Abraham was.

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And we're gonna note a couple of things here, you're gonna note then, that as we look up, in fact

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I'm gonna see if I can zoom in on this here, this right here on the eastern wall, that little feature is called the

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Golden Gate, and you'll notice it's all plastered up, yep, that's supposedly the gate that Jesus is going to walk through when he returns in glory to judge the living and the dead, and the

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Muslims have buried a whole bunch of their dead there, and inside the, you know, what is the Golden Gate as well, apparently to stop

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Jesus. I'm pretty sure corpses are not capable of stopping Christ, but that's a fascinating feature there on the eastern wall.

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And so we'll zoom in now a little bit here, and we're gonna pay attention to an important feature, in fact let me zoom out just a little bit from the

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Temple Mount itself. That's the Dome of the Rock, and you've probably seen, you know, if you've ever seen photographs of Jerusalem, then you've seen that, but you're gonna note over here that as part of the ascent up Mount Moriah, that there are these two blue domes,

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I'll put them dead center here, these two blue domes, those are part of the

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Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the place where Christ was crucified, and the place where Christ was buried.

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Mm -hmm. Yeah, you'll note it's on Mount Moriah itself, that's where Christ was crucified and buried.

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So, and if we want to take a look at it, like another view of this real quick here, this is another view from the

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Mount of Olives, and you can see here the Dome of the Rock, and then just on the right -hand side you can see the two domes from the

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Church of the Holy Sepulcher. That's how close these things are, and this is another great photograph.

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Again, the two domes just to the right of the Dome of the Rock there, that's the

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Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Now, what's inside the Dome of the Rock? Did you know you can actually take a look at the inside of the

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Dome of the Rock, at least virtually, at Google Maps, if you go to Google Maps, and you take a look at...

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I liked looking at the 360 photos that they have available. You can use a Google Cardboard, I have an

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Oculus Go, this is how I do my virtual tourism, because it's a lot cheaper to, you know, to visit

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Jerusalem on other people's vacation photos. I'm just saying, but anyway, so this is the inside, by the way, of the

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Dome of the Rock, and we're looking from this view, this is a 360 degree photograph of the

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Dome of the Rock, we're looking up at the top of the Dome of the Rock, and let's pan down, shall we, and see what is there inside of it.

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Well, there it is. That's the foundation stone. This is the site where Abraham offered

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Isaac, and this is considered a super -de -duper holy site in both

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Islam as well as Judaism. The foundation stone is kind of a big deal, if you would.

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So, there you have it. That's what's inside the Dome of the Rock, and you can see all of that. And where is this exactly?

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Mount Moriah. But see, the thing is, where Jews and Islam looks on Mount Moriah is at an empty stone.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has an empty tomb. And so you'll note then, coming back to Genesis 22,

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Abraham named that place Yahweh -Yihreh,

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Yahweh we'll see. And it is said to this day, on the Mount of Yahweh, it shall be provided, it shall be seen.

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And it was provided, it was seen there. On that exact mountain, on Mount Moriah, on the slopes of Mount Moriah, just west of the

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Temple Mount, Jesus Christ was crucified, and He stood between heaven and earth as He suffered for your sins and mine.

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He's the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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And so it was there that the Lord provided the sacrifice. Jesus is the ram caught in the thicket.

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He is the Son, the only begotten Son of God. And God Himself provided His own

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Son as the sacrifice for our sins, so that we can be reconciled to God.

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You see, on that mountain, the Lord saw. He provided for you and for me, so that we can be forgiven and reconciled.

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That is the importance of Genesis 22. And it has nothing to do with you being willing to sacrifice something, and then don't worry, when you sacrifice it,

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God will give it back. No, it was always about pointing to Jesus in type and shadow, and what

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God would accomplish and see, and what we would see, take place there on Mount Moriah.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the spot you want to be focused on, not the foundation stone, the place where the

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Lord did see and provide. So hopefully you found this to be helpful, at least eye -opening.

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If you were not familiar with this at all, your mind might actually be blown a little bit, but that's kind of the point, is that, you know, when you start looking for Jesus, He's everywhere, and all of this connects to Him.

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This text brings us, then, comfort and assurance, and in an amazing way, the prophecy of what was prophesied regarding what would take place on Mount Moriah, and ultimately what

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God provided for us there, in His own Son, who bled and died, so that we can be forgiven.

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Because how does it say it in John 3 16? That God so loved the world, you and me, that He gave

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His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life, given as a gift.

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So consider that. Consider what, you know, your own sin that Jesus has bled and died for. Repent, and trust in this

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Jesus whom God provided, the sacrifice, the Lamb of God who takes away your sin and mine, so that we can be reconciled, and not have the punishment that we deserve, but instead can be forgiven by God Himself.

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