Genesis Fifteen….(v.1-21)      

   Abram’s life seemed to be one series of tests after another….some he passed and others he failed. Whenever he passed a test, God spoke to him again and re-iterated His promise. Sometimes many years passed before he heard God’s voice, but still Abram remained faithful to God and kept his faith in Him…..

   By this time Abram was around 84 years of age with Sarah ten years younger and he was resigned to the fact that he was still childless and planned to give his faithful steward his inheritance. This, in spite of all the promises that God had already given him about his descendants!  Now God was telling once again that he WOULD have children of his own. Abram was no different to the rest of us. “How can this be so? How can I know for sure?” he asked.    God told him to prepare a sacrifice, and after doing this in the evening, Abram fell into a deep sleep and felt a sense of great horror come upon him. God then spoke to him again and told him plainly what the future held for his descendants. Abram then saw a flame and a fiery light pass through the sacrifice pieces, and knew it had been accepted by God. We also see that God’s patience with nations runs out in the end, and that one day in the future, the nations would be conquered and their land given to Abram’s descendants.  So we know for certain today, that the land of Israel was given to them by God, and it truly belongs to them!

Abram heard God’s voice once more, Just as he had the times before, “A son you’ll have, descendants too, This is the thing that I will do!”

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