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entered the Age of Aries.

Sir William Drummund, who was cited earlier, proposed that the Age of Aries began in the days of
Abraham. Abraham was born somewhere around the year 2,000 B.C.. This places his birth near the
beginning of common estimates for the beginning of the Age of Aries. There is a remarkable event
that occurs in Abraham’s life where a ram plays a significant role. After the birth of Isaac, when this
son of Abraham is a youth, Yahweh instructs Abraham to take Isaac to a certain mountain and offer
him there upon an altar as a sacrifice. This was an exceptional test of Abraham’s obedience to God.
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This event is recorded for us in the 22 chapter of Genesis.

Genesis 22:7-14
And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And
he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” And Abraham
said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them
walked on together. Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the
altar there, and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the
wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of
Yahweh called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." And
he said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you
fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham raised his
eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went
and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. And Abraham called
the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide.

The image of the ram in the drawing above looks very similar to depictions of the constellation Aries.