Daily Sacrifice, August 8 (7:17)
“When the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt”— Acts 7:17.
GOD has a definite time for the fulfillment of every promise. Israel became a nation of slaves, suffering under the cruel task-masters set over them by a new dynasty of Pharaohs, who “knew not Joseph” (Ex. 1:8). Every effort was made to destroy them, but the more they were afflicted the more they multiplied and grew (Ex. 1:12), until the hour struck which God had foretold to Abraham, His friend, and their deliverance was effected. So it shall be in connection with the termination of their present long-drawn-out agony. The time of the promise draws nigh. Deliverance will come with Messiah’s Second Advent in God’s appointed time.