So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. This story is made increasingly important by the presence of Jesus Himself as the one who is bringing this judgement by His two angels. He is coming with two angels who will destroy Sodom and Gomorrah in a short time. —John 8:56-59. NOTES: (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Jesus took the form of a servant, and completed the sacrifice required for all of man’s sin. ~Genesis 19:24-25. Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. After the angels received the hospitality of Abraham and Sarah, the Lord reveals to Abraham that he would confirm what he had heard against Sodom and Gomorrah, "and because their sin is very grievous." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. “Though Jesus was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. 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. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”. H Jesus said that in the days leading up to His Revelation in glory, it would be just like "the days of Lot". V And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.” But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Later, Peter in his second epistle, described this event amongst others that were a part of God’s judgement for sin. Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Luke 17:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. [2] Whatever the Father is, Jesus is. L I am the Lord your God. And she brought him into her father's house. As the time arrives for the men of these cities to meet their judgment, we see that Jesus, the LORD is the one who personally inflicts judgement upon Sodom and Gomorrah and they all perish. The New Testament Greek translation of Jesus as Lord, was understood by those who translated the Greek text into English, as the same person referred to in the Old Testament as Yahweh, or Jehovah, the LORD. Let's start with Ezekiel 16:49 , which reads, in full: "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." But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”. —Genesis 19:1-7. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave. The LORD has determined that these men will all fall under judgement on this very night. —Genesis 18:16-17, Because Abraham has believed what God has told him, regarding the birth of a son in his old age, the LORD views Abraham as a righteous man. Sodom and Gomorrah and their fiery fate crop up in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, in the Torah, and in the Quran. As the LORD tells Abraham what He is about to do, Abraham thinks of his nephew, Lot, who lives in Sodom. Since it is about heterosexual sex … Our sense of justice in punishing evil, provokes us to vengeance; while God waits for the guilty, giving as much time as possible for the hard and obstinate hearts of people to change. )”  — By Rev. Visit the Bible online to search for words if you don’t know the specific passage your’re looking for. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Lot was the nephew of Abraham, who chose to live in the city of Sodom. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. Jesus says that if Sodom and Gomorrah had seen those miracles they would have converted and still been around today. ‣ Woe to them! In the New Testament, we see a stunning conversation between Jesus and the leaders of Israel. The Bible itself is a veritable galaxy of fan theories from different prophets on what exactly the heck God was trying to say by blowing up Sodom in such a dramatic fashion. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth. God agrees to spare the cities if 10 righteous people can be found (18:23–32). He lived a perfect and sinless life for thirty-three and one-half years. Sodom and Gomorrah are very More than Geological Layers Ron found a road that had been cut through some of the whitish material and the freshly exposed interior of the material displayed a layering effect which swirled in such a manner as to make it obvious that these were more than geological layers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. Turn, turn from your evil ways! WHAT DOES GOD’S WORD SAY ABOUT SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY LBGT ACTIVITY? Sodom and Gomorrah; turned into ashes for the purpose of making an example of what God will do to those who live their lives, unrepentant, in a same-sex relationships; described by Peter as: “filthy conduct” (V.7). Although this man has gained a Ph.D in Theology and ancient biblical languages, he does not know that it was Jesus who came to Sodom to destroy the city for their sexual perversion. Then the LORD (Jesus) rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place. Jesus informs these leaders of Israel that He has the authority to judge all sins because He is God, who is the author of every law. Jesus is coming SOON! We must remember Abraham’s insistence that God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked. ‣ God is firm in establishing a set-time to punish evil, unrighteousness, and rebellion against His laws. And he left there and went to the region of Judea and … For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. I and My Father are one.”Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus is on His way to Sodom and Gomorrah to see if the evil that has been taking place there, is really happening. Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ... Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”, But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—. Abraham appeals to the justice of God. Our investigation begins with Jesus in the New Testament where He validates His past appearances in the Old Testament, during the days of Abraham. He punished them for inhospitality or promiscuity.” What would you say? Matthew 10:14-15: Jesus implied that the sin of the people of Sodom was to be inhospitable to strangers. K The Genesis text. Many in the LGBTQ community allege that these two cites were not destroyed because of homosexual sin but for their inhospitality to the two angels. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. There was no point in time when God came into existence. 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. The reason that this is important is that many today are claiming that Jesus never said anything negative about two gay men living in a loving, heterosexual relationship. We are told that "the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly" (Genesis 13:13). Same-sex sin is no different from any other sin. Jesus was not simply stating that He was one with the Father, in the way that we are seeking to be one with the Lord; in unity. Sodom and Gomorrah, Biblical cities destroyed by brimstone. This conversation continues with Jesus statement that Abraham had seen Jesus day and he was glad. The story of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis 18–19. We have not seen or heard from Jesus during the time that the angels are in the cities to gather Lot and his daughters. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 7 But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. God is the only self-existent, transcendent, sentient Being in existence. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. For He made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 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; The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine. The angels were cast into hell for their sin. Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. ‣ Here is our point, up to this place in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: This is not an allegory or parable, it is a real story about real people, who are in real danger of destruction. And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place where he had made an altar at the first. Finally He identifies Himself as the Great I AM, of the Old Testament. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.…”. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Genesis 18:20-21 states, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they … She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 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 asks: “shall I hide what I am going to do from Abraham?”, And the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”  —Genesis 18:20-21. 8 Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day. ... And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). And if not, I will know.”. Jesus used the tradition of the fellowship meal to explain that the Church consists of sinners who are saved by Grace, not because of their meritorious behavior (Matt. They believed that Jesus was just a man, while He claimed to be God. The biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18 and 19. The fullest accounting of the "sin" of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament is in the book of Ezekiel: "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" … —Genesis 18:6-8. Jesus, in pre-incarnate form as a man, appears to Abraham to inform Him that He is going to have a son, who will bring Jesus the Messiah into the world. So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate. M Abraham begged for God to relent. No person has to be lost, but every one of us must repent from our sins and turn to Jesus, if we will be saved. God had … Geocoding And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. ‣ God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality.” Graham concluded his post by quoting Romans 1:24-27. Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Clearly, it was the intent of the translators to convey to their readers that Jesus as the Christ, or Messiah, as the Jehovah God, and Yahweh of the Old Testament. ‣ And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. Nevertheless I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom … Source: The Expositors Bible Commentary on Jon 10:30. This view is maintained due to a lack of knowledge of the Biblical text. I AM… whatever you need in your life… I will become… whatever you need in your life…. 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—, The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” ... Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. But it was also a land that was extremely wicked. In verse 24, Jesus informs these men that they, and all people, will die in their sins unless they all repent and turn to Him for their salvation. R He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. Jesus was so angry with the Pharisees that he was using this illustration of extreme sin from the Sodom and Gomorrah story to tell them they were worse than them. 'Worse than Sodom?' Jesus was saying emphatically that He and the Father were One and the Same. In book of Genesis, God sent angels in the form of men to visit the town of Sodom and the home of a man named Lot. — Luke 10:12. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. It’s a deep valley, and before these cities were overturned, the Jordan branched out into a delta, watering the earth well and sprouting rich, lush greenery. Jesus is the one who is the primary character that is bringing this judgement and destruction to these two cities. Finally, Jesus tells these leaders of Israel that any person who keeps His word, will never see eternal death. Jesus uses the Greek neuter pronoun “hen,” signifying a unity of nature or equality. And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, ... And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. To ensure that not one person would be lost, Jesus came into the world as was born as a human being. The story of Lot and his wife is found in Genesis 19. Abraham quickly asks his wife, Sarah, to make a meal for the Lord and two angels who are accompanying him. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Say to them: “As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. ‣ The men who live here demand that the angels be brought out into the city center so that they can have sex with them. W (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. It occurs in Genesis 19:1-29. Jesus is on His way to Sodom and Gomorrah to see if the evil that has been taking place there, is really happening. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. Ezekiel 16:49-50 says, “They were prideful, abundance of idleness; they were selfish and did not help … Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.”  —Genesis 18:32. G ‣ For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. 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 one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. Their bodies will be seen in Jerusalem, a city whose spiritual state is likened to those who inhabited Sodom (Revelation 11:8). 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. ‣ When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. —Ezekiel 33:11, The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord. B Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.” Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Blog, A God has spoke to us and established what His law is concerning what we may do with our body and what we shall not do. Abraham’s insistence to the LORD was clear; If the men of Sodom and Gomorrah are wicked, then judgment should come. The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Matthew 11. The great I AM, is who Jesus is claiming to be, there is no mistake. This is Jesus, before He came to earth and took the permanent body of a man as the Messiah, appearing to Abraham. All sins must be repented from in order to find salvation. This term is usually translated into English as  I am that I am, but it can also be translated as I-shall-be that I-shall-be. F Since we know that the Lord stayed behind, that man must have been the Lord. In response to this realization, Abraham begins to question the Lord regarding what will happen when He arrives at Sodom and Gomorrah. Then the Lord (Yahweh) rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. They instruct Lot to gather his family and leave the city immediately. — Luke 10:12 NLT. And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. S Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’  —John 8:51-52. So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.” And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it. No portion of the text or images on this site may be copied, printed, or stored in a retrieval system without the written permission of the author, Robert Clifton Robinson, Follow Robert Clifton Robinson on WordPress.com. One of the chief difficulties that are found in the text of the Old Testament today is the portions of scripture which describe the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Following this line of deduction—if both the Messiah (in Psalms 97:9) and Jesus (in the Book of Philippians) are called God (there is only one) and both are exalted above all other gods, then they are logically one and the same. OpenBible.info Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord. T ... To keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. This question has given rise to several speculations about the identity of the one man who does not visit Sodom. She is far more precious than jewels. It was Jesus, the Lord-Yahweh, who brought down fire from heaven and destroyed all the men of these two cities for their immorality and sexula perversion. ‣ In the Genesis account, God reveals to Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are to be destroyed for their grave sins (18:20). Topical Bible And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Sunday, June 30, 2019 [Jesus, to the seventy-two disciples, referring to any town that rejects the disciples and his message:] "I assure you, even wicked Sodom will be better off than such a town on judgment day." Y (Read Genesis 19:1-29) The judgment and the salvation All those who inhabit His kingdom will bow their knees in submission to Jesus’ authority—if not willingly, by force (Philippians 2:10-11). Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. As a result, the LORD spared their city and not one person perished. The Bible is very clear. If, however, there are at least ten who are righteous, then those ten should be spared from God’s judgment. : 2 Peter 6-8: Peter mentions that God destroyed the adults and children of Sodom because the former were ungodly, unprincipled and lawless. For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD (Jesus) has sent us to destroy it.”  —Genesis 19:13. ‣ ‣ God is also Just and will not permit evil to continue forever. Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”, Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”, And God blessed them. In Genesis 18, the Lord shared His plans to destroy these cities due to their sins: "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave" ( Genesis 18:20 ). There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? The Talmud explains that as well: 11. This debate continues until Abraham asks the LORD a hypothetical question: “what if there is only ten righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah, would the LORD destroy these persons along with the guilty-wicked? We see further evidence of this fact in John chapter 10, where Jesus tells the leaders of Israel that He and the Father are one and the same. Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” Exodus 3:13-14, I AM is the name that Jesus called Himself by when He spoke to the Pharisees, describing His existence before Abraham: “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” ~John 8:56-59, This means that in the book of Exodus, it was Jesus who is the voice from the burning bush which spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. “To many anti-gay Christians, I’m nothing more than a “sodomite” who is damned for all eternity…To me, it is clear that the real sin of Sodom is radical inhospitality, or turning one’s back upon the strangers and the neediest in our midst. There is great concern that the LORD is going to these two cities because of the great sin that has been taking place, and destroy all those who live there. Abraham is worried that his nephew will be destroyed along with all the evil people who reside in Sodom and Gomorrah. 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. Jesus finishes His conversation with these men by informing them that before Abraham existed, Jesus was alive. It has never been the desire of God that any of us should perish. But David remained at Jerusalem. He needed a city, a powerful and prosperous city to make him feel safe and secure. But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— Mark 10:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. O Jesus is asserting that He has visited the earth before His birth at Bethlehem; possessing the ability to pierce linear time at any point in history that He chooses. In the following comment we see just how complex this issue has become as Homosexual men gain degrees in Theology and then set out to reinterpret the text of the Hebrew scriptures for their own agenda: to validate  the sexual relationships of same-sex men and women. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. … So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. 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. 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. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves. And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” John 8:9-11. And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” Genesis 18:10. In the name I AM, God is stating that He has no beginning and no end; He simply exists and always has existed. As we read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, with the knowledge that this judgement came directly by the pre-incarnate Jesus, there is no doubt regarding His view on homosexual or lesbian relationships. For why should you die…”  —Ezekiel 33:11, “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? Luke 17:29 is talking about the end of the world and the second coming in answer to the Pharisees question, "When would the kingdom of God come?" 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