Journal Entry from May 31, 2020 “Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth’” (Genesis 15:13-14). The Israelites, Abram’s descendants, would be enslaved for 400 years. In other words, they would be waiting for redemption, for freedom, for someone to rescue them for 4 gene