And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Genesis 15:11–16 Throughout Scripture, birds almost always symbolize evil.
The picture here is that while Abram waited for God to meet him, he did his best to keep evil at bay, shooing away the birds of doubt and unbelief. Exhausted by his own efforts, Abram fell asleep. As he slept, God told Abram that, although He would indeed give Abram’s descendants a grand and glorious land, they would first spend four hundred years as slaves in a foreign land, which, of course, was Egypt. “The Amorites”—a generic term for all of the people living in the land of Canaan—refers to a culture so diseased, defiled, and depraved that it was doomed. Nonetheless, God gave them four hundred years—the period in which the Jews were held captive in Egypt—to repent. While it may be popular to construct the false image of an angry Old Testament God who needed Jesus to come and calm Him down, nothing could be further from the truth. God waited four hundred years for the Amorites to turn to Him. It would take four centuries before their iniquity demanded that He order their extermination at the hand of Joshua. The patience of God is incomprehensible. Because God is love, no wonder that the first attribute in Paul’s classic definition of love is patience (1 Corinthians 13:4). God was patient with Abram. He was patient with the Canaanites. And He will be patient with you. If you really grasp this, rather than taking advantage of it, His patience will make you long to please Him all the more.
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