God continues: 'But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.' The judgment on Egypt and the exodus with plunder is announced four centuries before it happens. God's promise includes both the suffering and its resolution — and the resolution includes restitution: they will come out with great possessions. Exodus 12:35–36 records the fulfillment: Israel plunders the Egyptians at the moment of departure, as God announced here. The advance announcement is not incidental but covenantal — God is binding himself to a specific outcome across centuries. Isaiah 46:10 declares that God announces the end from the beginning and makes known in advance what is still to come. The application: the God who announced four hundred years of exile and its exact resolution is the same God whose promises to you are already accounted for, even when the exile seems to stretch without end.

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