Isaac, a picture of Messiah

Welcome back friends. Today we have two witnesses of Isaac being a picture of, or a foreshadowing of the Messiah in this week’s Torah portion, and they’re only 31 verses apart. Turn with me to our first one in Genesis 21:5. It reads, and I worded it in the same order the Hebrew words it:

Two Witnesses

Often in Christian or Hebrew circles the subject of the two witnesses of Revelation will surface with questions of – Who do you think the two witnesses are? Most often the choices are either Moses, Elijah or Enoch. Elijah and Enoch because they never died in the Bible accounts but were swept up to heaven.