God also told Abraham that he would spare the people and not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if he could find even ten righteous people. What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? Genesis 19:24,25 He and his two daughters lived in a cave. And befor that there is a whole exchange between G_d and Abrham in which G_d is willing to actually spare the city if there are but a few righteous people. A thing worth noting is that the family was told to flee the wicked city and lots wife oerished because she looked back. The one in Luke describes the fact that people will not be aware, there will be no grand signs of the end, life will be going about as usual, there will be no sense of urgency to repent, and the end will come as a surprise, as a thief in the night, as it were (Matthew 24:43; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:4; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 16:15). The same fire which burns the incense, makes the air pure. 
WebSodom and Gomorrah are two of the five "cities of the plain" referred in Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:29 subject to Chedorlaomer of Elam, which rebel against him. Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand. First, Sodom and Gomorrah were judged because of grave sin. Lot was saved more than once by Abrahams action and intercession. Any day the Word comes to town, so to speak, and it is turned away, may be the last day. Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Lot, trying to defend and protect the angels, offered the men his virgin daughters in their place. The city was destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:24). V Sodom was presumably located in plain South of the Dead Sea, now covered with water. Y When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth. Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, No; we will spend the night in the town square. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. Dont do this wicked thing. Jesus occasionally expresses his disappointement with rejection by claiming that whole cities are basically hell-bound. 10But the men(R) inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. When a tree does not produce fruit, it is cut down and made useful, as fuel for fire. First, Jesus says nothing specific about the sin of homosexuality anywhere in the Gospels. They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way. Do I need to find some quote by guys like John Shelby Spong or Randal Rauser about how a loving god would not "nuke" cities? Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lotthey were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.. For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her. WebInterestingly enough, Jesus did not interpret the sin of Sodom as sexual. In fact, his nephew Lot was there, along with Lots family! He says, Were going to have you complete a daunting set of tasks that are going to make Frodos quest to destroy the ring to look like childs play! Note that the coachs point is not to teach about the historicity of Frodos quest but to give an illustration of the rigors of a future wilderness training camp. WebThere is a beginning where God is willing to spare the cities if a sufficient number of just people can be found, and then he agrees to spare the cities if only a good number of j Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. He claims to be one with Him and be His son. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. To do so, does not mean to change the hearts of all men, that goes against our free will to choose Him. The practice would have been bad enough if it had been carried on by intrigue and wheedling, but they proclaimed war with virtue and bade open defiance to it. And in 2 Peter 3:7, we read, By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. 
However, two earlier passages are prelude to this. The entire New testament and Jesus recorded words inextricably link Him to the G_d of the old testament. Ephesians is God's present purpose. Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. So I really think it could be either way. (AC) 17As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, Flee for your lives! It is at this point that I would suggest we need to add a grain of salt to our interpretations because we are dealing here not with historical events but rather witheschatological events. The city's wickedness became proverbial. You will be brought down to Hades. When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. If Jesus is who he said he was (aka God incarnate) and he did rise from the dead, then his teaching and hermenuetic on the Old Testament is the one we ought to follow. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 
We can take God at His Word no matter if he uses literary devices, fables, song, poetry, or true history to show Himself. You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. Woe to them! But this morning, the time for intercession is past and evidence of destruction rises in the air before him. C If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. "Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit. Beyond that, the context of the passages you cite pertain to urgency, that today is always the day of salvation. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out now. Sexual sins werent the only problems found among the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. In Jesus, the Incarnate Word, He shows Himself most fully and it is, therefore, most fitting that Jesus would employ the revelation of scripture in speaking the Word Incarnate speaks the Word Inspired. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. W Many liberal Christians reject the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as ancient myth, because they think it's just ancient people creating a god in their image, and that a good god would not "nuke" cities like that, Do you have any sources of people actually making that argument? Like, are you doubting that there are liberal Christians who make that kind of argument? (BA), 30Lot and his two daughters left Zoar(BB) and settled in the mountains,(BC) for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. Their wickedness became proverbial (Deuteronomy 32:32; Isaiah 1:9 Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 23:14). WebTherefore, as I live, declares the Lordof hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. But even if we assume that he didn't think that these were literal events, isn't the comparison stil problematic? And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He does this by referencing the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: Matthew 10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Each of us falls short of Gods holiness (Romans 3:23), but God made a way by sacrificing His son, Jesus (Romans 6:23), to be the propitiation, or atonement for our sin. Salem Media Group. Fire and sulfur rained from the sky and wiped everyone out. Moving from the hope of at least 50 righteous people, down to 10, Abraham continued to beseech the One True God, for surely there were some who were honorable and righteous among the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Same one that sent the plagues of Egypt and destroyed cities for their wickedness. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. The angels warned Lot and his family to not look back but his wife did not listen and was immediately turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back. As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. when it comes to sodom and Gomorrah it seems that Jesus affirms this event as literal in Matthew 11:23 and Luke 17:29. Hank Hanegraaff, The Importance of Right Choices The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Why will you still be struck down? (BF), 34The next day the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I slept with my father. 
Gomorrah, one of the destroyed cities on the Dead Sea. March 25, 2023. The Book of Genesis contains some of the most dramatic stories ever told. (Easton's Bible Dictionary), One of the CITIES OF THE PLAIN (which see) was destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:23-29). WebJesus says that the day of judgment will be more unbearable for them than for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. which were destroyed by fire (Genesis 10:19; 13:10; Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:28. Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than. Does Ecclesiastes 5:2 Mean We Cant Be Honest in Our Prayers? (D) When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. In other words, it is less about God activelyjudgingthan Godwithdrawingand allowing the rebellious forces of creation to experience the consequences of their own self-destructive spirals. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But even if we take genocide off the table, it is certainly troubling enough when the act is reframed as mass killing. (X) But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. 19Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes,(AH) and you[e] have shown great kindness(AI) to me in sparing my life. Lewis? The prayers and petitions of Abraham mattered. (I) He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast,(J) and they ate. For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. But dont do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.(O). By the same token, when Jesus appeals to the past example of Sodom, his point is to warn about future judgment. The name Sodom means "burning" - It was a city in the vale of Siddim Genesis 13:10; 14:1-16). 
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him. S Now, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:49). And it may be that this burning out of the soil caused the plain to sink below the level of the Dead Sea, and the waters to flow over it--if indeed Sodom and its sister cities are really under the water.) For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for Good reason. That, that one there, yonder. WebVerse 7. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at [email protected]. At times I refer to Harry Potter without saying, of course you know this is fiction. Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all, But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you., Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. Plural of Hebrew origin; Sodoma, a place in Palestine. So I removed them, when I saw it. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. (AU), 27Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. As Lot's family fled Sodom and Gomorrah, God rained down, burning sulfur onto the city. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. Isn't he opposed to burning people? God said that if there was only one good person he wouldnt have destroyed but there was none, so he punished them for their sins, No it's not problematic. Some men from the city came to Lots home demanding to be given the two visitors so they could have sex with them. - The third example is taken from the history of the cities of the Plain. Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular - Comparative. And while that act may involve acts of mass killing it is not defined by them. 5They called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? First, lets address the questioners concern that these actions would constitute genocide. Lots daughters were pledged to marry local men, and these men were offered salvation from the coming wrath of God (Genesis 19:12-13). H To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. For example, the firebombing of Dresden (which I reference in Jesus Loves Canaanites) was an act of mass killing and, I think, a clear crime against humanity. Jesus sends out his apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles; and promises a blessing to those who receive them. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. The destruction of Sodom does reflect an instance of mass killing but mass killing is a different act than genocide: Genocide involves the attempt to destroy a racial, religious, and/or cultural identity as such. WebThe two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. God saves His people. As we stand beside Abraham and look out over the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah, we must approach this ancient scene of desolation in humilityand in gratitude for the redemption offered by Jesus sacrifice. J The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. Three days after His crucifixion, He rose from the grave and defeated sin and death, once for all. 28It was the same in the days of Lot.People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. No, they answered, we will spend the night in the square., Love C.S. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! In Genesis 13:12-13, the text says that the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord. Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. 
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WebSodom and Gomorrah are two of the five "cities of the plain" referred in Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:29 subject to Chedorlaomer of Elam, which rebel against him. Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand. First, Sodom and Gomorrah were judged because of grave sin. Lot was saved more than once by Abrahams action and intercession. Any day the Word comes to town, so to speak, and it is turned away, may be the last day. Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Lot, trying to defend and protect the angels, offered the men his virgin daughters in their place. The city was destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:24). V Sodom was presumably located in plain South of the Dead Sea, now covered with water. Y When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth. Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, No; we will spend the night in the town square. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. Dont do this wicked thing. Jesus occasionally expresses his disappointement with rejection by claiming that whole cities are basically hell-bound. 10But the men(R) inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. When a tree does not produce fruit, it is cut down and made useful, as fuel for fire. First, Jesus says nothing specific about the sin of homosexuality anywhere in the Gospels. They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way. Do I need to find some quote by guys like John Shelby Spong or Randal Rauser about how a loving god would not "nuke" cities? Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lotthey were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.. For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her. WebInterestingly enough, Jesus did not interpret the sin of Sodom as sexual. In fact, his nephew Lot was there, along with Lots family! He says, Were going to have you complete a daunting set of tasks that are going to make Frodos quest to destroy the ring to look like childs play! Note that the coachs point is not to teach about the historicity of Frodos quest but to give an illustration of the rigors of a future wilderness training camp. WebThere is a beginning where God is willing to spare the cities if a sufficient number of just people can be found, and then he agrees to spare the cities if only a good number of j Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. He claims to be one with Him and be His son. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. To do so, does not mean to change the hearts of all men, that goes against our free will to choose Him. The practice would have been bad enough if it had been carried on by intrigue and wheedling, but they proclaimed war with virtue and bade open defiance to it. And in 2 Peter 3:7, we read, By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. However, two earlier passages are prelude to this. The entire New testament and Jesus recorded words inextricably link Him to the G_d of the old testament. Ephesians is God's present purpose. Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. So I really think it could be either way. (AC) 17As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, Flee for your lives! It is at this point that I would suggest we need to add a grain of salt to our interpretations because we are dealing here not with historical events but rather witheschatological events. The city's wickedness became proverbial. You will be brought down to Hades. When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. If Jesus is who he said he was (aka God incarnate) and he did rise from the dead, then his teaching and hermenuetic on the Old Testament is the one we ought to follow. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. We can take God at His Word no matter if he uses literary devices, fables, song, poetry, or true history to show Himself. You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. Woe to them! But this morning, the time for intercession is past and evidence of destruction rises in the air before him. C If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. "Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit. Beyond that, the context of the passages you cite pertain to urgency, that today is always the day of salvation. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out now. Sexual sins werent the only problems found among the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. In Jesus, the Incarnate Word, He shows Himself most fully and it is, therefore, most fitting that Jesus would employ the revelation of scripture in speaking the Word Incarnate speaks the Word Inspired. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. W Many liberal Christians reject the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as ancient myth, because they think it's just ancient people creating a god in their image, and that a good god would not "nuke" cities like that, Do you have any sources of people actually making that argument? Like, are you doubting that there are liberal Christians who make that kind of argument? (BA), 30Lot and his two daughters left Zoar(BB) and settled in the mountains,(BC) for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. Their wickedness became proverbial (Deuteronomy 32:32; Isaiah 1:9 Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 23:14). WebTherefore, as I live, declares the Lordof hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. But even if we assume that he didn't think that these were literal events, isn't the comparison stil problematic? And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He does this by referencing the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: Matthew 10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Each of us falls short of Gods holiness (Romans 3:23), but God made a way by sacrificing His son, Jesus (Romans 6:23), to be the propitiation, or atonement for our sin. Salem Media Group. Fire and sulfur rained from the sky and wiped everyone out. Moving from the hope of at least 50 righteous people, down to 10, Abraham continued to beseech the One True God, for surely there were some who were honorable and righteous among the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Same one that sent the plagues of Egypt and destroyed cities for their wickedness. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. The angels warned Lot and his family to not look back but his wife did not listen and was immediately turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back. As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. when it comes to sodom and Gomorrah it seems that Jesus affirms this event as literal in Matthew 11:23 and Luke 17:29. Hank Hanegraaff, The Importance of Right Choices The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Why will you still be struck down? (BF), 34The next day the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I slept with my father. Gomorrah, one of the destroyed cities on the Dead Sea. March 25, 2023. The Book of Genesis contains some of the most dramatic stories ever told. (Easton's Bible Dictionary), One of the CITIES OF THE PLAIN (which see) was destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:23-29). WebJesus says that the day of judgment will be more unbearable for them than for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. which were destroyed by fire (Genesis 10:19; 13:10; Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:28. Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than. Does Ecclesiastes 5:2 Mean We Cant Be Honest in Our Prayers? (D) When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. In other words, it is less about God activelyjudgingthan Godwithdrawingand allowing the rebellious forces of creation to experience the consequences of their own self-destructive spirals. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But even if we take genocide off the table, it is certainly troubling enough when the act is reframed as mass killing. (X) But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. 19Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes,(AH) and you[e] have shown great kindness(AI) to me in sparing my life. Lewis? The prayers and petitions of Abraham mattered. (I) He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast,(J) and they ate. For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. But dont do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.(O). By the same token, when Jesus appeals to the past example of Sodom, his point is to warn about future judgment. The name Sodom means "burning" - It was a city in the vale of Siddim Genesis 13:10; 14:1-16). In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him. S Now, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:49). And it may be that this burning out of the soil caused the plain to sink below the level of the Dead Sea, and the waters to flow over it--if indeed Sodom and its sister cities are really under the water.) For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for Good reason. That, that one there, yonder. WebVerse 7. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at [email protected]. At times I refer to Harry Potter without saying, of course you know this is fiction. Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all, But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you., Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. Plural of Hebrew origin; Sodoma, a place in Palestine. So I removed them, when I saw it. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. (AU), 27Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. As Lot's family fled Sodom and Gomorrah, God rained down, burning sulfur onto the city. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. Isn't he opposed to burning people? God said that if there was only one good person he wouldnt have destroyed but there was none, so he punished them for their sins, No it's not problematic. Some men from the city came to Lots home demanding to be given the two visitors so they could have sex with them. - The third example is taken from the history of the cities of the Plain. Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular - Comparative. And while that act may involve acts of mass killing it is not defined by them. 5They called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? First, lets address the questioners concern that these actions would constitute genocide. Lots daughters were pledged to marry local men, and these men were offered salvation from the coming wrath of God (Genesis 19:12-13). H To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. For example, the firebombing of Dresden (which I reference in Jesus Loves Canaanites) was an act of mass killing and, I think, a clear crime against humanity. Jesus sends out his apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles; and promises a blessing to those who receive them. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. The destruction of Sodom does reflect an instance of mass killing but mass killing is a different act than genocide: Genocide involves the attempt to destroy a racial, religious, and/or cultural identity as such. WebThe two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. God saves His people. As we stand beside Abraham and look out over the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah, we must approach this ancient scene of desolation in humilityand in gratitude for the redemption offered by Jesus sacrifice. J The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. Three days after His crucifixion, He rose from the grave and defeated sin and death, once for all. 28It was the same in the days of Lot.People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 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