Jehovah-Jireh
In the last lesson, we looked at Jehovah and this name of God in relationship to Israel’s salvation, and how it spoke of God’s fulfillment of salvation in Christ Jesus our Lord. As God appeared to Moses, He declared His name Jehovah to him and God declared that He had appeared to Abraham as God Almighty but by the name of Jehovah was not made known unto him. This I believe, the Lord to have shown me, was speaking that God would come and appear to Abraham and leave. When He came as Jehovah to Moses and the children of Israel He did not leave, but became a God in their midst, leading them out of Egypt as a Cloud by day and Fire by night. After that filling the tabernacle of Moses with Himself, and later the Temple. He became a God to them, and they became a people unto Him.
However, by studying the scripture we can clearly see that Abraham called him Jehovah. Here in this less we begin to dig a little deeper in the name of Jehovah as declared by Abraham, which was specifically tied to God’s provision, Jehovah-Jireh.
Genesis 22:9 -14 “And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of Jehovah called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.”
Here we come to Mount Moriah, which means seen of Jah, Jah is the short form of Jehovah. This was God’s seeing. God spoke to Abraham to bring Isaac to Mount Moriah and offer Him. Later this became the Temple Mount, and was speaking of the Mount where God would lay the sacrifice, and the chief cornerstone. “Behold I lay in Zion a stone a tried stone.” It is no coincidence that the House of God is founded upon a sacrifice. All this was speaking of Christ Jesus our Lord. He is God’s true provision.
In Mount Moriah a sacrifice provided of God was revealed, a Ram caught in a thicket. Here the great provision for all mankind begins to be unfolded, “Jehovah shall provide Himself a sacrifice.” “God so loved the world that He gave His Son.” This is the provision seen of Jah. This is God’s provision. This provision not only saves me from my sin but delivers me completely out of the man of sin and takes me into my promised land, the land of rest in Christ Jesus. We are a new creation created of God in Christ Jesus.
Here with Abraham the thought of the Only Son comes into view. “Take thine son, thine only son.” Abraham also had Ishmael who had been cast out. Ishmael was speaking of the man of the flesh, or the Adamic man. Jesus himself is also called the Only Begotten. In Jesus we begin to see the fulfillment of what God is saying through Abraham and Isaac. The Only Begotten is God’s seed, kind, and man. The Old Man is Gone. Our salvation is not in Adam, but in the Only Begotten of God. This is a New Man coming out of God.
We in, through, and by Him, come out of God. Our origin is no more in Adam. The Old Man is dead, buried and gone. The New Man has NOW become my life. This is my promised land – “that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.” In us is a land flowing with milk and honey. Out of our inner being flows the River of Life Himself. Glory to God!!!
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