When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth. In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). The Bible is not God destroyed the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah owing to their wickedness. But is it? Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. In other words, in threatening to now rape Lot, they were admitting that their desire for the angels was pure lust, not dominance in the form of rape. They considered their views enlightened, but Jesus said they needed enlightening. And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 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. Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord. 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. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. The men of the town did not love. So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, Up! Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. And such were some of you. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John. At the very end of the hour, a caller began yammering loudly about the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah (homosexuality, in his opinion) and how God struck them down I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord. And they called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? J So lets start with examining that position. Jesus taught his disciples this very thing in Matthew 15:1820. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. In that chapter, Simeon and Levi killed all the men of Shechem because of the rape of their sister Dinah. G According to Smiths Bible Dictionary, Sodom was one of the most ancient cities of Syria. It is commonly mentioned in connection with Gomorrah, but also with Admah and Zeboim, and on one occasion -- ( Genesis 14:1) --with Bela or Zoar. Sodom was evidently the chief town in the settlement. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. WebIn the Genesis account, God reveals to Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are to be destroyed for their grave sins (18:20). Q Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof. And said, My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Abraham pleads for the lives of any righteous And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. Blog, A And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. But they said, Stand back! And they said, This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! She is struggling with COVID and although Catholic has been a example of Jesus to me. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her. Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. Then the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. Jesus is saying that these cities will be more tolerable on the day of judgment than those who rejected him. All sin is an offense to God and demonstrates mankinds rebellion against him. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) M For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. And they called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? TopicalBible And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. So I removed them, when I saw it. Biblically, one could see the initial validity of making this argumentbut it is placing all the emphasis on verse 49 and ignoring verse 50. There is an important lesson there. They had seen him worship God with Melchizedek (Genesis 14:17-20) and refuse to financially benefit from Sodoms riches (Genesis 14:21-24). F For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. F You will be brought down to Hades. However, the account in Genesis 19 also reveals that there was no righteous person in the city. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18-19, which tells the tale of two angels who visit Abraham and warn him that if he doesnt save Lot from destruction at the hands of sinful men living in the cities, God will wipe them out with fire. And she brought him into her father's house. And they called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. As mentioned in the Quran, there is a similar account in the Quran (11:7483 and 29:2835), but the Quran does not identify the cities by name, so the performance in the Quran must be the same. A third and fourth sin explanation has gained popularity in recent years, primarily in liberal Christian scholarship, but it is not deduced from an exegetical reading of Scripture. Lots offer of his daughters rather than his sons only infuriates the crowd, which are then struck blind by the angelic visitors (19:111). Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. Amen. OpenBible.info Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.. Jesus Christ predicted that civilizations at the end of the era will resemble those of Noah and Lot (Luke 17:26-30). And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! Words like haughty, bitter, venom, wanton, idleness, (when they could have been helping others) leap out of the verses as a description of a self-absorbed, hedonistic people who cared nothing for others. As Lot and his family are leaving the city, they can see that it is being destroyed from afar. WebPeter was referencing the text from Genesis 19 where Jesus, Yahweh, the Lord, destroyed the men of Sodom and Gomorrah: When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to 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. Bring them out to us, that we may know them.. Bring them out to us, that we may know them. Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, and said, I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Psalm 51:4). And as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.. The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath, And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. Woe to you, Chorazin! Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, No; we will spend the night in the town square.. The reason Jesus used Sodom and Gomorrah as examples of judgment is that they were both destroyed in a fire by God. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him. Woe to them! 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. The threatened rape of the angels is an attempt to inscribe outsiders as queer and therefore not real men But in attempting to inscribe the outsider as queer the Sodomites are also attempting to inscribe the queer as outsider. Suppose ten are found there. He answered, For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.. And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. 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. V These days when we live in sin, God still mercies us because He loves us so much. We also know that their wickedness was so great that no human could even begin to understand how evil it was (Genesis 19:12). Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. N You do not follow Jesus. For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him. Then the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, 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. They highlight the phrase, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy in Ezekiel 16:49 but completely fail to address Ezekiel 16:50: And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit. The Hebrew word towebah is most often used in the O.T. But there is hope for all mankind because God has provided a way of salvation and is patient with us not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9). Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. I am the Lord your God. Even in that passage, inhospitality is ranked behind prideindeed, inhospitality is only a subset of the greater sin of hating our neighbor. For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. Had there been even ten righteous people in the city, God would have spared it (Genesis 18:32). Jesus words are recorded in Luke 17:28-30. Traits and Verses. Verses 22-33 record Abraham pleading with the Lord to have mercy on Sodom and Gomorrah because Abrahams nephew, Lot, and his family lived in Sodom. You can also sign up for our free print newsletter (US only). So I removed them, when I saw it. H So they ate and drank and spent the night there. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. In Genesis 18, we have an account of the angels visiting Abraham on their way. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that town. (NIV). 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. If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. 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. And if not, I will know.. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. In the previous chapter of Genesis, God tells Abraham that there have been bad reports about Sodom and Gomorrah. v23-29 Lot and his wife and two daughters flee to the town of Zoar, Sodom & Gomorrah & its valley are destroyed, and Lots wife looks back and becomes a pillar of They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA, and the Google Although their sins of pride, sexual immorality, inhospitality, and cruelty were committed against other peopleultimately, they were a direct offense against God. These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. P E The fate of these cities is held up by religious conservatives to justify the suppression of non-heterosexual people and to fan hatred of same sex eroticism and gender fluidity. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. You may be wondering why this verse would include Sodom and Gomorrah. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. T The lot and his family are the only remaining virtuous individuals in the city, so the angels urge them to leave immediately. If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. If you covet in your heart, that can lead to stealing. And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. And if not, I will know.. Its also the same word used in Leviticus 18:22 when addressing homosexual acts. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.). Then the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.. For those who uphold biblical inerrancy and authority, the answer is obviousyes! But if you do forgive others their sins, your Father will give you eternal life. Then the Lord said, The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. Jesus did not say that when people die they become angels, which they do not, nor that we will be like angels in every respect, which we will not. M So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. So yes, Sodom was judged for homosexual sinwhich flowed from pride, which also led to cruelty and exploitation of their fellow men and women. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. A reader emailed me a question about how Jesus viewed the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: when it comes to sodom and Gomorrah it seems that Jesus Their story echoes the flood narrative in Genesis in its theme of Gods wrath caused by mans transgression. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. Jude 1:7 says that Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them indulged in sexual immorality and unnatural desire (strange flesh). Ezekiel 16:49-50 explains that Sodoms sin extended beyong homosexual rape, although this passage, written six centuries later, may have referred to a more recent, rebuilt Sodom. God tells Abraham in the book of Genesis that Sodom and Gomorrah will be destroyed because of their terrible sins (Genesis 18:20). When you look at passages such as Deuteronomy 32:32-33, Isaiah 3:9-16, Jeremiah 23:14, and Ezekiel 16:49, you see multiple references to Sodoms (and Israels) sin of pride and hatred. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near. I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. Matthew 10:15 says, Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that city. This verse is a reference to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Help us share the truth of Gods Word and the gospel! 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. Jeremiah 49:18 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. WebTruly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her. L OpenBible.info And as they brought them out, one said, Escape for your life. 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. Jesus said that end-time events would mimic those in the days before Sodom and Gomorrahs destruction. All Scripture references are NKJV unless otherwise noted. The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. WebSamaria is the oldest, Sodom the middle, and the youngest is Jerusalem. The propensity for violence, rape, and adultery (which must have also been occurring in Sodom, since there were no women present at this mob scene) are all factors here though. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. In the biblical narrative, Lot was grieved when the messengers informed him that his people would perish. So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. In spite of Abraham's intercession to have the cities spared (Genesis 18), they were destroyed with brimstone (a Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him. The destruction wasnt because God hated them or wanted them goneit was because their wickedness had reached an extreme point where nothing could be done but destroy them, Even after this destruction, there are many lessons we can learn from what happened in those two cities. None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. Geocoding Bring them out to us, that we may know them. Then the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. There is further biblical evidence to back this claim up; Ezekiel 16:49 reads: 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.. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Why were they not counted among the righteous when Abraham pleaded for Sodom (Genesis 18:23-33) and stopped at 10? O Ezekiel 16:49-50 explains that Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away., For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.. The fact that the men of Sodom so quickly (and unanimously) refused Lots offer of his daughters shows that rape could not be the primary sin of the men of Sodom. About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth: they became unjust toward men, and impious toward God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.6, Now, when the Sodomites saw the young men to be of beautiful countenances, and this to an extraordinary degree, and that they took up their lodgings with Lot, they resolved themselves to enjoy these beautiful boys by force and violence.7. Rather than compare Sodom and Gomorrah to other ancient cultures and seek to justify their sexual immorality, Sodom and Gomorrah should be compared to Nineveh during the time of Jonah. Some have argued that rape was the primary sin of Sodom. The Lord sent two angels down to Sodom and Gomorrah. WebThe cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have come to epitomize moral depravity and cruelty. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. That is Sodom and Gomorrah. If it is, the city will be destroyed. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 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. But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Why Do Mark and Johns Gospels Not Mention Jesus Was from Bethlehem? For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 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. In the same manner, he mourned when the messengers reported to him that his people would pass; Lot offered his daughters to the mob in vain when the messengers informed him that his people would perish, too. After all, we know that both of these cities were destroyed by God because they were wicked (Genesis 18:20-19:29). The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. Matthew 25:41 Then He will say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. The men of the town did not love. For they have brought evil on themselves. The narrative in that chapter makes this claim a weak one. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. All of these are manifestations of pride itself. And as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.. Labs Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Did Jesus say anything about Sodom and Gomorrah? Pride is a fountain of many sins because it effectively is saying, I want what I want, and I will have it regardless of what God says or the cost to someone else because I am better than they are and deserve it. If that lustful passion is for strange flesh or unnatural desire as Jude 1:7 terms it, then that can lead to homosexual behavior. I Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. They had no interest in sexual relations with women; only after Lot offered them a heterosexual alternative did they then decide that they would now forcefully seize and rape Lot (deal worse with you), and this would have been in contrast to the way they had desired to "deal with them." Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way. The Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 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