Season 9 • Episode 1 Genesis 22 & Matthew 27

The True Ram

Story Time: The Knife Stopped on Moriah, The Hammer Dropped on Golgotha & The Substitute in the Thorns

An angel stops Abraham's knife and reveals a ram in the thicket, while on Golgotha the hammer falls on God's own Son in our place.

Theme Verse (Romans 8:32): “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”

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The Knife Stopped on Moriah, The Hammer Dropped on Golgotha & The Substitute in the Thorns

Main Characters in S9E1 (3)

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Jesus Christ

The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.

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The Roman Centurion at the Cross

The hardened Roman commander overseeing the crucifixion at Golgotha — whose soldiers drove the nails into the unspared Substitute, and who confessed at the earthquake and torn veil, 'Truly this was the Son of God!'

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The Ram Caught in the Thicket

The substitute ram discovered behind Abraham on Mount Moriah with its horns entangled in a thicket of thorns — offered up 'instead of his son' as a prophetic shadow of Christ crowned with thorns.

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Storytime Side Characters & Mentioned Figures (2)

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Abraham

Father of the covenant nation and head of the Messianic genealogy — who split the altar wood before dawn, climbed Mount Moriah for three days with his promised son Isaac, and named the mountain Jehovah Jireh.

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Isaac

The miracle son of Abraham and Sarah who carried the altar wood up Mount Moriah, asked 'Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?', and was spared when God provided the ram in the thicket.

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Original Greek & Hebrew Root Words in S9E1

Hebrew • H3070

Yahweh Yireh — “The Lord Will Provide”

Rendered 'Jehovah Jireh'—literally 'The Lord Will See' or 'The Lord Will See To It' (Genesis 22).

Hebrew • H5442

Sebak — “Thicket of Thorns”

A dense, interwoven entanglement of thorny bushes, brambles, and briers in which the ram's horns were caught.

Hebrew • H8478

Substitute / Tachath — “Penal Substitution”

Hebrew preposition meaning 'in the place of' or 'instead of' (Genesis 22); the theological foundation of Penal Substitutionary Atonement.