Is it possible that where Abraham was called to bring Isaac, was on Calvary, rather than the temple mount?Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
It doesn't say on mount Moriah, the one mountain in the land of Moriah that is named for it.But it says the land of Moriah, where there are a number of mountains:Psalms 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.Psalms 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
mount of Olives:Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
mount Zion:II Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
mount Moriah:II Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.II Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.(When the temple was completed, Solomon had the ark brought up from mount Zion to mount Moriah:)
Calvary/Golgotha: outside the city of Jerusalem on the north
the mount of corruption:II Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
the mountain west of Hinnom, on the south side of Jerusalem:Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
the mountain on the south, where Ezekiel saw the future city and temple:Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
Was not ancient Jerusalem, also called Jebus, what David took when he was first anointed king of Israel?Was it not only known as Zion, and also the city of David?Was that the same city where Melchisedec had been king?Psalms 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Melchisedec came out of Salem/Jerusalem/Jebus to meet Abraham and blessed him, in chapter 14.So, if Abraham, 8 chapters afterwards, brought Isaac to the temple mount, the Jebusites would have been watching the whole thing.Before the temple was built, the temple mount was a threshing floor, flat, higher up than Zion/Salem/Jebus.It was also visible from that city, as later, David, inside the city of David, saw the angel of the LORD stop the plague there.Could not the Jebusites, who watched from the wall of Salem, see a man about to kill his son, up on that threshing floor?Would they, and king Melchisedec, not have rushed up there to prevent a man from killing his son?However, if Abraham had taken Isaac to a different mount in the land of Moriah,they probably would not have been able to see what was happening.Calvary/Golgotha was much further north of Jebus/Salem than the threshing floor was.Anyway, the LORD stopped Abraham from killing Isaac, and Abraham prophesied that God himself would be the Lamb for the sacrifice.So, would it not make more sense, that the exact same spot where Abraham was stopped from sacrificing his only son Isaac,would also, some two thousand years later, be the exact same spot, where the Father had his only begotten Son sacrificed?Is it possible that where Abraham was called to bring Isaac, was on Calvary, rather than the temple mount?