"13 Then the LORD said to Abram, ""KNOW FOR CERTAIN" that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
Waiting on GOD can be a lesson in patience, humility, perseverance and education. GOD has a way of teaching us lessons that we had no idea we needed to learn, about things we never dreamed we would need to know, at just the right time we needed to know them, ALL for HIS glory!
Abraham's "offspring" had to experience captivity for 400 years at the hands of the Egyptians before GOD "got glory" over Pharaoh and all his hosts! Most certainly, the majority of the captives never knew freedom before there deaths. Imagine living in captivity your entire life with seemingly no hope of being released?
But the freedom of the nation of Israel was more certain than the sun rising every day. GOD HIMSELF told their ancestor (Abram) to "KNOW FOR CERTAIN" his offspring would be captive for four hundred years, BUT that the nation holding them captive WOULD be judged! The ancestors of Israel had to WAIT ON THE LORD (Psalms 27:14) over 400 years for HIS timing to be complete! GOD had revealed HIS Plan to Abram, but the Egyptians didn't know HIS Plan and even chased after Moses to facilitate their own demise! And I get "antsy" when I have to wait 400 minutes!
When GOD ALMIGHTY says "KNOW FOR CERTAIN" that something is going to come about, you can be confident that it will be so. Many times scripture states "it is written", referring to GOD's Word being recorded on paper. If GOD has spoken a Word to us about something and we KNOW it's from HIM, we can "KNOW FOR CERTAIN" that HE will do it. HE hasn't weakened and HIS resolve is still just as sure! That I "KNOW FOR CERTAIN"!!!
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