YHWH Yiräh, "YHWH Sees"
יראה יהוה
The
name YHWH Yiräh, "Yahweh Sees" (Gen. 22:14), gives us an
insight into the heart of GOD, what GOD is seeing and having in mind.
I
met a Jew in a Jewish bookstore. He said: “The greatest in the Tanach is Genesis
22, where Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac to the LORD.” Then he recited this
whole chapter in Hebrew by heart. Yes, that is indeed the greatest in the
Tanach; but it is only a foreshadowing of the Father in heaven who sacrificed
His only, beloved Son for our salvation. God tested the love of Abraham, — on
GOD
had promised Abraham a son by Sarah, but he had to wait till he was 100, and
Sarah 90, years old, till GOD’S time had come. How Abraham cared for his
beloved son, watching that nothing may harm him. Always he thanked GOD for His
wonderful gift, “in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.”
One day GOD said to Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and
go to the
A sword pierced the heart of Abraham at these words. He did not
understand GOD. But he knew that GOD is true. Without a word, Abraham saddled
his donkey and set out early in the morning with Isaac and two servants to go
to the
On the third day they came to the place, and Abraham said to his
servants: “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we
will worship and return to you.”
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62 = 2 × 31 = בני My Son
Isaac asked his father, "Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt‑offering? Abraham looked up to heaven ── and answered, ‘GOD will provide Himself with
the lamb for a burnt‑offering: My Son’" Genesis 22:8.
GOD spared the son of Abraham, but He did not spare His own, beloved
Son, His one and all, but gave Him as a sacrifice for our sins. Yeshua is the true Passover Lamb which saves
us from the wrath of GOD.
Isaac would have been instantly killed, having no pain; but what the
only Son of GOD suffered hanging on His nails upon the Cross for six long
hours, that no mortal can describe. We
see the physical pain, but infinitely greater was His spiritual agony of being
forsaken by GOD, smitten by the rod of His wrath (Lam. 3:1‑3. Psa. 22).
The righteous Judge of the whole universe cannot bend judgment. The
sinner must die (Romans
Two sons stood before judgment:
Yeshua and Bar Abbas = "son of the father." "Whom will you
that I release to you, Barabbas, or Yeshua, the Mashiach," Pilate asked
the people. They answered,
"Barabbas," and Barabbas was a murderer and rebel. "What then shall I do with Yeshua, the
Mashiach?" They all said, "Let
Him be crucified." And the governor said, "What evil then
has He done?" But they cried more
than ever, "Let Him be crucified."
Thus the Righteous died in sinners' stead, that we by His Blood might be
saved and clothed in His righteousness.
Abraham had already lifted his knife to slaughter his son, when the
Angel of Yahweh (who was he?) cried to him, "Stretch not out your hand
against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that you
fear GOD, and have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me." And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behold, behind was a ram caught in the
thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for
a burnt‑offering instead of his son.
This ram behind Abraham is HE who spoke, "Verily, verily, I say to
you, Before Abraham was, I AM" (John
HE is the Lamb without blemish and without spot, who was foreknown
indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the
end of times for our sakes (1 Peter 1:19‑20). By His righteous Blood alone we are saved
from the wrath of GOD, and become sons of our Father in heaven.
"HE was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb
before its shearers, yea HE opened not His mouth ── YHWH
has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all; for the transgression of my people
was HE stricken" (Is. 53:7-8). That day there was no angel from heaven who
held back the Father's knife.
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242 = 2 × 112 the Son highly lifted up
Now, this is heart‑breaking!
What the Father in heaven has been suffering, seeing His beloved Son
hanging upon the Cross. When David got
the news of his son Absalom hanging on the tree pierced with spears, he wept in
the upper chamber of the gate: "O
my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would GOD I
had died in your stead, O Absalom, my son, my son!" (2 Sam.18:33).
So great is the love of GOD to you, that He let His beloved Son Yeshua suffer this in
your stead, that you may accept Him and be saved.
The curse of GOD for our sins came upon Him, GOD'S innocent Son, as HE
was hanging upon the Cross; for it is written, "A curse of GOD is one
hanged on a tree" (Deut. 21:23; Gal. 3:13). HE is our LIGHTNING ROD. The fire of GOD'S righteous judgment flashed
into Him, and we are saved ── if we repent of our sins calling upon
His Name. If we do not
repent now, be sure of the surest thing in the world, you will soon stand
before the righteous judgment seat of GOD. Only because you did not accept His
pardon, you will be judged righteously without mercy ── in the lake of fire, as GOD's Word says (Rev.
20:11‑15).
R 180 He
is risen — and we with Him!
Abraham knew that he must slaughter his son.
But how would GOD’S promise be fulfilled? He believed GOD. “He counted that God is
able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure
receive him back” (Hebr. 11:19).
After Yeshua had been buried, the chief priests and the Pharisees went
to Pilate and asked him to guard the tomb where Yeshua had been laid. So Pilate
appointed a guard to watch the tomb by day and night, and he sealed the stone
closing the entrance. But after three days, suddenly there was a great
earthquake; for an angel of the LORD descended from heaven, and came and rolled
away the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was as lightning, and his
raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the watchers quaked, and became as
dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women,
Fear not; for I know that you seek Yeshua, who has been crucified. He is not
here; for He is risen,
even as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay”
(Mat. 28:2-6).
Again and again our Lord Yeshua appeared to His disciples after His
resurrection. Then He led them up on the
Thus GOD has justified His Son, because there was NO sin in Him. “I have
set YHWH always before me: Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be
moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh also shall
dwell in safety. For You wilt not leave my soul to
Sheol; neither will You suffer Your Holy One(s) to see corruption” (Psalm
16:8-10).
God has raised Him up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was
not possible that He should be held by its power, and He has seated Him at His
right hand, making Him Lord over all (Acts 2:24-33).
Yeshua spoke: “I Am the Resurrection, and the Life: he who believes on
me, though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever lives and believes on me
shall never die” (John
HE died for our sins, but arose for our justification
(Rom.
A true Christian can state in truth: “I have been crucified with
Mashiach; and it is no longer I that live, but Mashiach living in me” (Gal.
And as Yeshua ascended up to heaven, we shall soon be caught up to
heavenly
S
304 = 24 * 19 the Lamb is our Righteousness
HE, the only Righteous, suffered for our sins, that we may become the
Righteousness of GOD in Him (2 Cor.
GOD never undertakes to make the old man holy. No, He has pronounced and
executed the death sentence on the old man, when Yeshua died in our stead on
No, we are an entirely new creation, raised up in His wonderful Son, and
GOD will see His Son alone in us. “For whom He foreknew, He also foreordained to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren” (Rom.
Out of Jews and heathens we have been made ONE NEW MAN in Yeshua
Mashiach by His cross (Eph.
YHWH Yiräh “YHWH sees.” These
eight letters describe a new creation.
The LORD will only see the Lamb in us, and nothing else.
Fall
into your Father's arms! (Luke 15:20).