Throughout the Bible, births often herald great hope and expectations and are the result of great faith in God. Many births are a foreshadowing of the greatest birth of all, the birth of Jesus Christ.
Running through all of the smaller stories in the Bible is the bigger story of God at work in the world for redemption and restoration - and this story enables us to make sense of life. The story of Isaac can be considered a “type” of Jesus within the biblical narrative, as Isaac directly foreshadows key features of who Jesus is, particularly in the picture of death and resurrection.