This combination is found in Gen. 22:1-14. There we read that God tested Abraham, commanding him to take Isaac, the child of promise, whose very name meant laughter, his only son, miraculously born, to offer him up for a burnt offering. We remember that Abel offered an offering of the firstlings of his flock; that Noah when he came out of the ark, took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD. But this was the first occasion when it was most solemnly indicated that there should be a human sacrifice, surely an offering prophetic of the sacrificial death of our Lord, the only begotten Son of the Father.
Just at the critical moment, when Abraham was about to slay his son at the bidding of God, his hand was restrained, and Isaac was spared. At this point of the story we read, "Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place JEHOVAH-JIREH [The LORD will provide]: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen." (Gen. 22:13, 14). It was on the Mount of Moriah that this scene took place. Centuries rolled by, and we find Jesus, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, dying on the cross of shame at Jerusalem in sight of Mount Moriah in fulfillment of this prophecy uttered by Abraham.
Earlier in the Chapter we read that Isaac asked a question, which must have wrung his father's heart with deepest anguish. There was the wood and the fire, but where was the lamb for a burnt offering? Abraham's prophetic answer was that God (Elohim) Himself would provide a lamb for a burnt offering. How gloriously was that seen when John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, beheld Jesus coming to him, and exclaimed, "Behold THE LAMB OF GOD, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29). And still more wondrously was it seen when our blessed adorable Savior died on Calvary's cross for God's glory, and the procuring of salvation for all, who put their trust in Him. Thus is seen how the word, JIREH, added to the word JEHOVAH, presents to us what is wrapped up in the mind of God for the blessing of poor fallen man, even the whole story of how a covenant-making God would implement His approach to men at the cost of the death of His only begotten Son.
Never shall we be allowed to forget this. In the vision of the holy city come down from Heaven, a symbolic presentation of the church in relation to the future millennial age, we are reminded that the Lord God Almighty and THE LAMB are the Temple of it; that the glory of God and THE LAMB are the light of it; that the church itself is THE LAMB'S wife.