“Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.”
Hebrews 11:16
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Connection with the death and burial of Sarah
At the burning bush God named Himself "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Exodus 3:6), three men who were lying in the cave at Machpelah. They lived as foreigners waiting on God's promise, and God gladly took their names into His own.
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