Since the beginning of the new school year in September 2015, Rev Foster has been asked to speak at two morning assembly meetings each week. His theme for 2015-16 is DV, "Pictures of Christ in the Bible." Fifth Picture of Christ Genesis 22:1-14 Approximately 500 years have passed since the flood. God has called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, Gen 12:1. Ur of the Chaldees was in the land of Babylon or modern day Iraq. He came to that land which today is called Israel. This is the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants. There Isaac, the promised son, was born. Notice first, the place where the sacrifice was to take place. The "land of Moriah", verse 2. The word means 'chosen by Jehovah". We are told exactly where that was. "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah," 2 Chronicles 3:1. Mount Moriah refers to a range of hills, the Temple Mount being on the east and Calvary on the west. Both these locations may rightly be termed 'Moriah'. Also, we see a picture of Christ carrying His cross. "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together," Genesis 22:6. "Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha," John 19:16-17. This was the Saviour on His way to Mt Moriah.