…and said to him, 'GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY AND FROM YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.' Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. Acts 7:3-4

God saved Abraham out of pagan idolatry in Babylon (“the land of the Chaldeans”).

And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. Acts 7:5

God promised to give Abraham a land and to bring forth a nation from him—even though Abraham had no child. God’s promises are sure even when they appear to be impossible from our perspective.

But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years. 'AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I WILL JUDGE,' said God, 'AND AFTER THAT THEY SHALL COME OUT AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE.' Acts 7:6-7

God foretold of Abraham’s people going out from their land to be enslaved for 400 years by the Egyptians, but also that after that time, God would judge the Egyptians and deliver His people back into their land to worship Him.

"And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him Acts 7:9

God ordained that Joseph’s brothers would sell him off as a slave, but as verses 10-23 record, God used Joseph to get the Israelites to Egypt, and Moses to get the Israelites out of Egypt.

The history of Israel is truly a history of God’s providence. His providence in our lives may not be as dramatic, but we are who we are, and are where we are, because of God’s providence.