Abraham and the Resurrection Hebrews 11:17-19

11:17 "By faith Abraham, when he was tried" – peirazomenoV (Pres Pass Ptc) - Put to the test to prove his character and steadfastness (tempt, try, prove, examine).  To test for the purpose of ascertaining a person’s quality, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself. 

Prov. 17:3 “The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the Lord trieth the hearts”

offered up Isaac: -  prosenhnocen (Pf Act Ind) – action which is viewed as having been completed in the past, once and for all, not needing to be repeated.  There was a real offering of Abraham's will, even without the sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham had faith in the resurrection power of God.  This is the same verb usage as when Jesus said, “It is finished” (tetelestai) in John 19:30

And he that had received the promises - anadexamenoV (Aor Mid Ptc) - 

Offered up – proseferen (Impf Act Ind) – in the past continuously, but not completed.

his only begotten – ton monogenh - the only one of its kind 

11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called- klhqhsetai soi sperma (Fut Pass Ind). Literally, to call in a loud or distinct voice.

11:19 Accounting – logisamenoV (Aor Mid Ptc) derived from logizomai meaning to think, impute, reckon, count, or number.  It infers computing or calculating or imputing to someone by deliberate choice. This word deals with reality. If I "logizomai" or reckon that my bank book has $1000 in it, it has $1000 in it. Otherwise I am deceiving myself. This word refers to facts not suppositions.

that God was able to raise him up,  egeirein dunatoV o qeoV - Pres Act Inf 

even from the dead; (oti kai ek nekrwn)  

Rom. 4:18 “Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be”

from whence also he received him in a figure. - Abraham and Isaac as a type of Christ and the Father (Genesis 22:1-14)

Gen. 22:2 “thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest” John 3:16

“offer him there for a burnt offering...” - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Gal. 4:4-5

 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  I John 4:9-10

“Upon one of the mountains” - Calvary - Luke 23:33  And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.    

22:6 “took the wood...and laid it upon Issac his son" 22:9 “laid him on the altar upon the wood.” - on the cross - And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:  John 19:17

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.  Phil 2:8

“And he took the fire in his hand...” - Judgment of God – Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Rom. 4:25  Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

THE GREATNESS OF THE RESURRECTION

John 11:25  -  I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in  me, though he were dead yet shall he live."

Acts 24:15   “and have hope toward God...that there should be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust."

Rom. 6:5 “or if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."

The Greek word for resurrection is anastasiV - meaning a “raising up” -  it designates the future general raising, by the power of God, of all men from the dead.  John 5.24-29

Job 19:26-27 “And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.  Job 19:26-27

John 6:39 “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”

Rom. 8:11 “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

Phil. 3:21 “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

I Cor. 15:51-52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”