First Sunday after the New Year, Second Sunday after Christmas. Today's Gospel reading would be about Jesus and Parents going to Jerusalem for festival, Jesus staying back to be in the temple to talk to teachers in the synagogue and the parents coming back after 3 days looking for him. - Luke 2:40
Genesis 22 - God tests Abraham
Abraham faces the biggest test of his life. One day, God tells Abraham, "Abraham, go to the mountain in the land of Moriah and offer your only son Isaac as a sacrifice for me". Abraham must have been stunned by this. He had waited so long for a son and finally when he got one, God was asking him as a sacrifice. But Abraham knows that God is the giver of everything and protector of everyone. So he obeys God and takes Isaac to sacrifice. He doesn't tell anyone, even his son Isaac.
As they're walking towards the altar of sacrifice with knife and coal and other things needed, Isaac asks his father about the lamb to sacrifice. Abraham answers that God will provide. When they reach the place, Abraham ties Isaac up and lays him on the altar. As he is about to put his knife on him, the angel of the Lord speaks - "Abraham, do no kill the child. Since you have obeyed me I will make your descendants more than the stars in the sky.". Abraham looks around and sees a lamb trapped in a nearby busy. He offers that as sacrifice.
Next paragraph talks about the 8 sonsof Nahor, Abraham's brother. One of the sons is Methuel, Rebecca's father.
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