Geneses Chapter 15- Land Promised

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Geneses Chapter 15- Land Promised

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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram

1 After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” (The Lord talked in a vision to protect and provide Abram.)

2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” (Abram was concerned for not having a child yet, thought that his servant Eliezer of Damascus might be his heir.)

4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” (Not a servant but his own child will be the heir. Not even his own son from Hagar. 21:12, Gal. 4:21-31)

5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars- if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” (The Lord gave Abram a vision of having many offsprings as many as the stars in the sky.)

6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. (Abram believed what the Lord said so that considered to be righteous. Abram's faith became the prototype for being saved through faith. Rom. 4:3-5, Gal. 3:6)

7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” (The Lord promised the land of Canaan to Abram who just came to the land as a wanderer.)

8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?” (Abram asked the Lord how can it happen out of wondering.)

9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” (The Lord ordered to prepare some animal offerings.)

10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. (Abram obeyed and protect the sacrifices.)

12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. (Abram fell asleep at night.)

13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. (The Lord foretold that Abram's descendants will become strangers in a land- Egypt, and will come back to the Canaan later. It is about the immigration of Jacob to Egypt and Exodus.)

15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. (Abram will not see all these in his life time but he was informed about the future.)

16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” (Abram's descendants must wait for 400 years to come back because they were not ready to conquer the land due to their minority and the local people were not corrupt enough to be destroyed and conquered yet.)

17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. (A smoking firepot with a blazing torch passed between the sacrifices, proving the presence of the Lord.)

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” (The Lord made a covenant with Abram on the land of those nations.)