22:3,4
“So Abraham rose early in the morning”. Abraham responded quickly. There was no agonising about the decision. He got together all that he needed in order to perform the act. Likewise, everything was in place for the crucifixion of Jesus. Remember that Jesus told His disciples to go ahead and they would find that things were in place for the Passover (Luke 22:1-13). On the third day Abraham could see the place from afar.
22:5
Abraham then tells the two young men that he and Isaac will go on alone. The cross was the work of the Father and the Son. He also says that they would come back to them. Heb 11:19 says that Abraham reasoned that God would raise Isaac from the dead. The promise of God that His promises would be fulfilled through Isaac and the command to sacrifice Isaac seemed to contradict each other, but Abraham had come to the point where he put his trust in God, not on his own understanding (Prov 3:5,6).
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