Abraham, Isaac, and the Altar of Fire: Did God foretell the future sacrifice of his own son?

By Greg Litchfield

How could a loving parent imagine the death of their only child, let alone by their own hands?  As a youth, the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac was a troubling one for the author of this modern day version.  Why would God make such a strange and terrifying demand, unless he was trying to prepare his people for the coming of hi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Global Summit House
• Release date: Feb 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781645165002

Greg Litchfield

Greg Litchfield is a born again Christian, husband (wife Dodie), father (Lori, Emily and Katie Rose) and paw paw to six grandchildren. As Joe S. Amer-Ican, he has published two books: The Quiet Revolution (Outskirts Press) and it's About God and the Amer-Ican People (Tate Publishing), from which Abraham, Isaac and the Altar of Fire is excerpted as Chapter 7. After teaching for a short period, he worked in small local government as an administrator for thirty years. Upon retiring, he returned to teaching and working with troubled youth. His positive experience in honest local government warns us that America is in deep trouble unless we rediscover our Judeo Christian heritage and establish term limits for our legislators. He advocates for prayer, The National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools, The Ten Commandments Movement, GOOOH.com (pronounced GO), which is a new method to attract and fund the campaigns of term limited legislators who will compete with the two party system. Invented by Texan Tim Cox (Revolution, Bridgeway Books), GOOOH is already supported by nearly 100,000 patriotic Amer-Icans. Mr. Litchfield also advocates for the Fairtax (fairtax.org). With 60 current sponsors in our House of Representatives, the Fairtax is simple, revolutionary tax legislation which does away with our 70 thousand page tax code and replaces it with an easy to understand national sales tax. 400 of the Fortune 500 Companies surveyed said they would build new plants and facilities in the US if the Fairtax is passed by Congress. This will provide millions of jobs and restore our sick economy.

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Abraham, Isaac,

and the Altar of Fire

Did God foretell the future sacrifice of his own son?

Greg Litchfield

Copyright © Greg Litchfield

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Some characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Contents

Dedication

Abraham, Isaac, and the Altar of Fire

The Secret Journey

The Big Game

Dedication

This book is dedicated to God, family, community, our military and the over 1.3 million Amer-I-can soldiers who have given their lives and the millions more who have been wounded so we can choose freedom over dependence. Their surviving family members were broken so ours could remain w hole.

The vast majority of our nation’s heroes were Christian. They used the free will God gave them to defend freedom. They fought, died and came home maimed in mind and limb, but they did not give in to the same types of tyranny America has been fighting since the miraculous birth of our nation. During the 5,000 years before we were founded, tyranny in all its forms was the bully which made sheep out of ordinary men and women. Because of America the bully was vanquished, so we can all work hard to make our dreams come true—no matter how great the dreams.

Thank you William Federer for promoting and publishing the truth about America.

Abraham, Isaac, and the Altar of Fire

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No one loved playing Challenge more than Isaac. It was a game he and his young friends created to entertain themselves when the desert sun started to fall in the western sky. They could hardly wait for the heat of the day to subside and it become cool enough for them to convert their shepherd’s staffs into the special clubs they modified to play the game. Isaac and a few of the other boys went so far as to make a second club, dedicated more to Challenge than shepherding. He called his club Lightning and proudly carved the name into its ha ndle.

It was a simple game born from the barren surroundings of the desert: first, either by chance or by choice, they divided themselves into equally numbered teams. (Lately, the boys had become two teams: the Raiders and the Hornets.) Then a field was marked off in the sand and dirt. It was about one hundred cubits wide (50 yards) and about two hundred cubits long (100 yards). A ten-foot-by-four-foot goal was lined off in the center of both ends. To their dismay, every time they established a good playing ground, the grownups would come along for one reason or another and make them move it.

From the hardest wood the boys could find, they carved rough-looking balls and then begged one of their mothers to stitch leather (from goat hide) around them. When sewn properly, the ball would fly off their curved-nosed staffs. Isaac had several of these balls—some to practice with and a few just for important games. Next to the beautiful coat his mother made him, they were his most prized possessions.

Each goal was tended by a goalie. The rest of the team passed the ball from club to club until such time as a shot on goal was attempted. One point for each goal scored, and three points for a successful challenge, which could be called for at any time by any player brash or courageous enough to attempt to carry it out. A challenge meant team play was stopped long enough for a lone player to take his club and the ball and challenge the opposing team’s goalie. Within a designated area about forty cubits from the goal, the challenger could fake and taunt the goalie as much as he wanted before finally taking the shot which he prayed would cross the goal line.

Challenge attempts, except toward the end of the game when one team was behind by a large margin, were rare. If the score was close, the consequences for failing to score on a challenge attempt were just too severe to try random loners. If a player called for a challenge on his own, without consulting his team, and then failed to score it, his teammates would scrum around him and give him a group pummeling that was proportionate to his failure. Depending on the circumstances, these punishments could be good-natured and even funny—often ending with the whole team down on the ground laughing and hilariously screaming. But they could also be used to mete out real punishment—sometimes to settle old feuds, which may not have anything to do with the game. Many scars and an occasional broken bone told the stories on the bodies of those who dared challenge at the wrong time and fail.

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There were no referees in Challenge—no adult to stand between an individual infraction and the final judgment of the group. There was nothing except the popularity of Isaac, who was becoming as revered by the young people as his father, Abraham, was by the older generation. He was his father’s and his