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:

Yeshua, the Firstfruit offering

There is a verse in Leviticus/Va’yikra that prophecys Yeshua as the Firstfruit offering! Turn to Lev 2:14, which reads: “If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to YHVH, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads.” – Lev