Did Abraham think that God would provide a lamb instead of Isaac?
This is a question that comes to us for answer. We read in Hebrews 11:17-19 that Abraham offered Isaac, through faith in God, "Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead." (Hebrews 11:19)
If Abraham had expected that God was going to provide a substitute, there would have been no occasion for faith in the resurrection, and the matter would have been no trial at all.--Signs of the Times, July 7, 1890--Genesis 22:8.