event · Old Testament
A father leads his only son up a mountain, and God provides the ram instead.
points forward to · the only son on the mountain
Abraham carries wood up a mountain with his only son, and tells Isaac that God will provide the lamb. At the cross the pattern completes in reverse: this time the Father does not withhold his Son, and the substitute God provides is himself.
points forward to · God provides the substitute
In both scenes God supplies what the human cannot: a covering in Eden, a ram in the thicket on Moriah.
points forward to · the promise re-sworn
It is on Moriah that God swears by himself to bless all nations through Abraham's offspring — the promise of Genesis 12 confirmed by oath.