The promise

God explained to Abram the future of Israel. God explained that Israel would be enslaved in Egypt for four hundred years. Then God explained that Egypt would be punished. God explained that the Holy Land belongs to Israel.
God honors his promises and he knows everything.
God knew that Israel would suffer but he wanted to encourage the Jews. The nation that hurts the Jews will be punished by God. Egypt would be punished because they mistreated the Jews.
People needs to honor the Jews and not curse the Jews.
There were many nations in the Holy Land before God gave the Holy Land to the Jews.
These nations had a time to repent but these nations loved sin more than God.
I have some good news for the people. I have a great message.
The God of the Bible revealed himself to this earth. Jesus is the Maker and came to this earth.
He lived a perfect life and died on the cross. He fulfilled the Old Testament sacrificial system.
 Jesus conquered death. Mankind need to repent from their sins and follow Jesus.

Genesis 15:13-21

 

¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— ¹⁹ the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, ²⁰ Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, ²¹ Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”