The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 15:13-16,
“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
I see some interesting things of the Lord here. The Lord tells Abram what is going to take place in the future. Israel’s servitude in Egypt will last 400 years. They will be freed by the Lord and will be delivered out of Egypt with “great possessions.” Our God knows all things, even things of the future as he lives beyond the dimensions of time and space. At times he reveals future events to certain ones.
We also read that the return of Abram’s descendants will be timed relative to the level of wickedness of the Amorites. The Lord will use Israel to judge the Amorites at the appropriate time. Here I see the Lord working in the arena of manipulating nations for his purposes. Our God is sovereign! He has his own agenda, his own purposes on the international stage of not just current events but also future events. I suspect I would be quite surprised to know just how active God is in the events of the world today.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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