Some Bible Boys

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There are many boys you read about in the Bible, but we will take just five for today, each illustrating a vital gospel truth.
ABEL was the first to offer a sacrifice to God. He brought a firstling of his flock and sacrificed it to God on an altar of stone. That victim was his substitute, its life was given for his. It died in his stead, and his faith saw therein a type of Christ, the promised One, the sinner’s surety, who would die, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God (1 Pet. 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18)). God accepted Abel’s sacrifice and him with it, declaring that he was righteous.
ISAAC is a type of the obedient Son of God, the Lamb of God’s own providing, who gave Himself a sacrifice and an offering to God, for us (Eph. 5:22And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor. (Ephesians 5:2)). He was obedient unto death (Phil. 2:88And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8)). For Isaac, a substitute was found—a ram caught in a thicket by its horns—to die in his stead (Gen. 22:1313And 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. (Genesis 22:13)), but for Jesus, the Son of God, there was no substitute found. He must die in our stead. God spared Abraham from sacrificing his son, but He did not spare Himself. “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”
ML 10/29/1967