Genesis 22:20–24
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We have just come down from the high mountain. We have just witnessed one of the most terrifying and glorious moments in all of redemptive history. Abraham has offered up his only son, the son of the promise, and has received him back from the dead in a figure. The ram was caught in the thicket, the knife was stayed, and the covenant was reaffirmed with a blood oath from God Himself. After the earthquake, wind, and fire of the sacrifice of Isaac, we get this quiet, almost mundane, genealogical report. It feels like an appendix, a postscript, a bit of family housekeeping tacked on to the end of a momentous chapter. It is a list of names, births in the extended family, news from back home. It is easy for our eyes to glaze over. It is easy to think that the sermon is over and this is just the credits rolling.