The vision was nearly complete. God spoke His final words to Abraham, circling back from the cosmic future to the personal promise that had started everything.
"Therefore hear, O Abraham, and see. Your seventh generation shall go with you, and they shall go out into a strange land, and there they shall be enslaved and mistreated for what seems like an hour of the age of ungodliness."
The seventh generation. The children of Israel descending into Egypt (Genesis 15:13), the four hundred years of bondage foretold in the original covenant vision. What had seemed, from Abraham's vantage point above the seven heavens, like a single hour on the cosmic clock was, for those who lived through it, centuries of suffering.
"But the nation whom they shall serve, I will judge."
The promise was the same one God had made in (Genesis 15:14). Egypt would be judged. The enslaved would be freed. The pattern established in that first exile would repeat itself through every captivity that followed: Babylon, Greece, Rome. Enslavement, judgment, liberation. The cycle of exile and return encoded in the very first covenant.
With these words, the Apocalypse of Abraham came to its end. The idol-smasher from Ur, who had watched Merumath lose his head and Barisat burn to ashes, who had ridden on the wings of a bird to the seventh heaven, who had seen the throne of fire and the four living creatures and the Garden of Eden and the fall of Adam and the murder of Abel and the destruction of the Temple and the ten plagues of the final age, this same Abraham was sent home with a single assurance:
"I am with you forever."