Promises and Visitors
Abraham was this many years old when Isaac was born.
What is 100?
Lot was this relation to Abraham.
Who is his nephew?
Abraham was commanded to take Isaac to this land to offer him as a sacrifice.
What is Moriah?
Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son is a "similitude" (likeness) of this event.
What is Heavenly Father's sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ?
After Sarah died at age 127, Abraham buried her in this cave.
What is the cave of Machpelah?
This woman "laughed within herself" when she heard she would have a son in her old age.
Who is Sarah?
Lot’s wife famously turned into this after looking back at the destruction.
What is a pillar of salt?
Isaac’s name literally means this.
What is "one who laughs"?
Just as Jesus carried His cross, Isaac carried this up the mountain for the sacrifice.
What is the wood?
Hagar’s son, who was promised to become a great nation, was named this.
Who is Ishmael?
The three men who visited Abraham in the plains of Mamre are identified in the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) as these.
What are "holy men" or "angels"?
These were the only members of Lot’s family to survive the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Who are Lot and his two daughters?
When Isaac asked where the lamb for the sacrifice was, Abraham replied with this phrase.
What is "God will provide himself a lamb"?
The mountain where tradition says Isaac was to be sacrificed is near where this was later built.
What is the Temple in Jerusalem (or Golgotha)?
When Hagar and her son were cast out, she put him under a shrub because of this heartbreaking reason.
What is she did not want to watch him die?
This powerful question was asked of Sarah: "Is any thing ______ ______ for the Lord?".
What is "too hard"?
According to President Jeffrey R. Holland, Lot’s wife’s sin was that she didn’t just look back, but she did so in this way.
What is "longingly"? (or "her heart wanted to go back")
This was the substitute sacrifice provided by the Lord at the last moment.
What is a ram caught in a thicket?
In both cases, the sacrifice involved an "only begotten son".
What is the sacrifice of Isaac and the Atonement of Jesus Christ?
This King of Gerar was told in a dream that Sarah was married to Abraham after Abraham said she was his sister.
Who is Abimelech?
Abraham pleaded with the Lord to spare Sodom if this many righteous people were found there.
What is ten?
The Lord rained these two things upon Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy them.
What are fire and brimstone?
Abraham named the place "Jehovah-jireh," which means this.
What is "The Lord will provide" (or "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen")?
Just as Isaac submitted to his father, Jesus submitted to the Father’s will in this garden.
What is Gethsemane?
Elder Richard G. Scott noted that while Abraham was stopped, Heavenly Father did this for Jesus on the cross.
What is He allowed the sacrifice to be completed (He did not stop it)?