“And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Isaac speaks to his father and asks where the lamb for the burnt offering is. He sees the fire and wood but no animal. The question is the most poignant in Genesis: Father — Wood — Fire — But where is the lamb? The three observations and the one question expose the gap between the preparation and the purpose. The question is asked in innocence and answered prophetically. John 1:29 records John the Baptist's answer across the centuries: look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The application: the question Isaac asks on the mountain is the question the whole Old Testament asks, and the whole New Testament answers.
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