WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!
Have you forgotten what happened before?
Did you hear the WARNINGS?
Lot’s wife is not only returned to her new home after being captured by enemy kings, but they move from their tent into the city of Sodom. In addition to tending his sheep, her husband is now an important man of the city.
Previously: You Will Not Be Led -2- Lot’s Wife
Genesis 18:
18:1 וַיֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה בְּאֵלֹנֵ֖י מַמְרֵ֑א וְה֛וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב פֶּֽתַח־הָאֹ֖הֶל כְּחֹ֥ם הַיּֽוֹם׃
Ordinary men near cities of kings
Abraham, whose pastures were separate from Lot, welcomes three heavenly visitors. With the help of the Lord he had rescued Lot. Therefore, Lot, his wife and daughters and servants were returned to the land near Sodom, where they moved within the walls of the wicked city of the land they entered as sojourners.
Messengers of Mamre
20 Adonai said, “The outcry against S’dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious that I will now go down and see whether their deeds warrant the outcry that has reached me; if not, I will know.”
22 The men turned away from there and went toward S’dom, but Avraham remained standing before Adonai.
What follows in Mamre is a very personal negotiation between Abraham and G-d.
- 23 Abraham approached and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
- .. will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
- .. “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am only dust and ashes. Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five..?
- .. forty..?
- “Oh may the Lord not be angry.. thirty..?
- ..twenty-one..? ..ten..?
- .. And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”
Two angels sojourning to Sodom
The two strangers have traveled from Mamre and entered the gates of Sodom at a time when darkness falls.
Genesis 19:
When Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and bowed himself to the ground.
“Here now, my lords, please come over to your servant’s house. Spend the night, wash your feet, get up early, and go on your way.”
“No, we’ll stay in the square.”
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, baking matzah for their supper, which they ate.
A Bible story not preached ‘at church’
The actions of evil intentions which follow are too intense for common preaching to our socially-correct, all-inclusive gatherings of 21st century ‘christian families.’
Even so, we bring with us to church (sometimes) our own children who are heavily influenced by such things in the world of media and by their everyday school friends.
4 Before they lay down, the men of the city—the men of Sodom—surrounded the house..
[MANY MEN, a MOB perhaps drunken with wine and other spirits] 5 and they called to Lot..
“..Bring them out to us! We want to have sex with them!”
6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said,
“Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
Who will judge sin?
Lot includes himself in their community of Sodom, calling them brothers. For after their rescue by his uncle he is now esteemed to sit at the gate among Sodom’s leaders.
So Lot now bids his fellow rulers of Sodom, ‘do not act wickedly.‘
He actually offers his two betrothed daughters (of whom we will hear more of later) to satisfy the passions of the mob who would surge past him if possible and into his house.
As now is evident to US, wicked mobs are not easily dissuaded.
“I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.“
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again,
This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.
And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 10 But the men [the two angels, messengers of the Lord] put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness..
Flee the Wrath to Come
“Whom else do you have here? .. for we are about to destroy this place,
because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
Do NOT miss the WARNING!
For it is not entirely about the destruction of SODOM & GOMMORAH, or even a fading recent memory from a century past of two cities: HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI.
The END of these last days will come upon us suddenly!!
A.D. 2021 may or may not be the time, but no flesh and blood can hide from the wrath which is to come at the fulfillment of time.
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