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Abram’s Vision
By Peace | July 16, 2008
A Promised Land: The Lord said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him,”From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever. I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered. Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.” Abram, moving his tent, went to live by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.
After these things the word of God came to Abram in a vision, saying,”Fear not, Abram, I am your shield and your great reward.”
“Lord God,” Abram said,”What will you give me since I am without children and my heir is a servant, Eliezer of Damascus?” Then the word of God came to him, saying,”Not a servant but a child of your own shall be your heir.”
He took Abram into the open and said,”Look now towards heaven, and count the stars if you can do so. As numerous as the stars shall your children and your children’s children be.” And Abram believed in the Lord and the Lord regarded him with favour.
Then God said to him,”I am the Lord that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit.”
“Lord God,” Abram said,”How shall I know that I shall inherit it?”
“Bring me a heifer three years old,” God said to him,” a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove and a young pigeon.”
Abram gathered all these animals as offerings. He took them to God and divided them into pieces, laying one against another. But the smallest he did not divide. When the birds of prey came down upon the remains of the offerings Abram drove them away.
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram and a great and fearful darkness fell upon him. Then God said to him,”Know for certain that your children shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They shall live in bondage and be oppressed for four hundred years. But the nation that shall oppress them I will judge, and afterwards, they shall emerge with great possessions. You yourself shall go to your fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Your children shall return here in the fourth generation.”
When the sun was down and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between the pieces of the offering. And on that day God made a covenant with Abram, saying,”To your children and to all your children’s children, I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to Great River, the river Euphrates. All the people who dwell within it, I have delivered to you.”
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