Now, let us read the full account of God\u2019s covenant with Abraham in Gen. 15:7-13, 17-18. As we do, you will note all that is underlined, which I will comment on as we go along:<\/p>\n
\u201cThen He (God) said to him (Abraham), I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it<\/em>. And he (Abraham) said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?<\/em>. So He (God) said to him, bring Me a three-year old heifer, a three-year old female goat, a three-year old ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon<\/em>.<\/p>\n Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.<\/p>\n And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram and behold, a horror and great darkness fell upon him<\/em>.<\/p>\n Then He said to Abram: know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years…<\/p>\n And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark<\/em>, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch<\/em> that passed between those pieces. On the same day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram<\/em> saying: to your descendants I will give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates\u201d. Emphasis in italics mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now, let us read the full account of God\u2019s covenant with Abraham in Gen. 15:7-13, 17-18. As we do, you will note all that is underlined, which I will comment on as we go along: \u201cThen He (God) said to him (Abraham), I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[54,450,140,17,417],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kingdom-word","category-message-of-the-week","tag-dominion","tag-foundational","tag-jesus-christ","tag-kingdom","tag-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new.dominionembassygh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}