The Outcry To The Lord Against Its People Is So Great He Has Sent Us To Destroy It.
Not even ten righteous upstanding people lived in the entire town. Who are these creeps? You don't know them-They don't have any living progeny. Their names have been wiped out of the book of life.
Why were they considered so awful?
They preferred having their way with men than with a couple of virgin girls. A couple of them were even ready to rape a few Angels. When the one righteous guy in town pleaded with them to leave the Angels alone (here, take my daughters please), they threatened to rape him also. Sodomites. It comes from the name of the once prosperous town Sodom. A town so depraved that "the outcry to the Lord Against Its People is So Great He has Sent Us to Destroy it" declared the Angel. The destroying Angels warned the one righteous man to get his family out of dodge-like now. Get your girls and wife and anyone they are connected to and get out of this town now. Hell fire was going to pour down from the heavens and nothing living would exist there again. Pulverized into dust like a meteoric
falling star hit it and exploded everything to burning dust-like oblivion.
20Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.e 23Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not sparef the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judgeg of all the earth do right?”
26The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Abraham didn't want to see it destroyed- so he pleaded with God for his mercy. Surely there would be enough righteousness in the place to not totally wipe it off the map. Aren't there ten righteous people here? Can I get a quorum? But there wasn't. This place was so sick, so evil, so values on its head twisted, don't even look back when you get out of here. We all know what happened to Lot's disobedient wife who couldn't resist.
Harbor no nostalgia about this place that provokes your memory to revisit it's depravity. Harbor no longing for its seductions or lasciviousness. Cut it from your vision and your memory and do not look back if you want to live. That was the message.
Now Lot was "righteous" enough to be saved, but still not the paragon of virtue. Seems soon out in mourning for his dead wife no doubt he finds himself drunk and sleeps with his daughters.
That is what kind of fellow he was- he first offered up his daughters to the rapists in town then he slept with them himself. And this was deemed even more righteous than the sodomites in Sodom. This is what God thinks of Sodomites. I didn't make up the story. I will leave it to you to google "Sodomite."
Does God use natural phenomenon to punish, warn, instruct or signal communication? Did God use the Pillar of Fire by day and smoke by night to guide the Israelites through the desert for 40 years? Did God part the Red Sea to signal and make a way of passage to freedom? Did God turn a bush into an eternal flame that didn't go out and didn't destroy the bush? Did God smash Sodom and sister city Gomorrah with punishing fire from heaven? Did an Earthquake shutter the region when Jesus hung on the cross? Did the sun spin and turn out of usual sequence at the apparition of the blessed mother at Fatima drying the land that had been wet with rain? Did God tell us clearly in Revelation that in the end times we will see floods and earthquakes and signs in the heavens? Does God manifest communications through signs in the natural world?
OF COURSE. What better way to get our attention.
Is it uncharitable to note that God moves in the heavens and on earth and manifests communications through the natural world? Hardly- it's just Fact. Perhaps you are not looking
hard enough or listening hard enough.
Does God think that an entire people can be so off the rail self-deluded in their persistent sin that he loses patience with them and just is done with them? Apparently so- ask the Sodomites- oh, you can't- not a one exists anywhere on earth.
Not even ten righteous upstanding people lived in the entire town. Who are these creeps? You don't know them-They don't have any living progeny. Their names have been wiped out of the book of life.
Why were they considered so awful?
They preferred having their way with men than with a couple of virgin girls. A couple of them were even ready to rape a few Angels. When the one righteous guy in town pleaded with them to leave the Angels alone (here, take my daughters please), they threatened to rape him also. Sodomites. It comes from the name of the once prosperous town Sodom. A town so depraved that "the outcry to the Lord Against Its People is So Great He has Sent Us to Destroy it" declared the Angel. The destroying Angels warned the one righteous man to get his family out of dodge-like now. Get your girls and wife and anyone they are connected to and get out of this town now. Hell fire was going to pour down from the heavens and nothing living would exist there again. Pulverized into dust like a meteoric
falling star hit it and exploded everything to burning dust-like oblivion.
20Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.e 23Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not sparef the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judgeg of all the earth do right?”
26The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Abraham didn't want to see it destroyed- so he pleaded with God for his mercy. Surely there would be enough righteousness in the place to not totally wipe it off the map. Aren't there ten righteous people here? Can I get a quorum? But there wasn't. This place was so sick, so evil, so values on its head twisted, don't even look back when you get out of here. We all know what happened to Lot's disobedient wife who couldn't resist.
Harbor no nostalgia about this place that provokes your memory to revisit it's depravity. Harbor no longing for its seductions or lasciviousness. Cut it from your vision and your memory and do not look back if you want to live. That was the message.
Now Lot was "righteous" enough to be saved, but still not the paragon of virtue. Seems soon out in mourning for his dead wife no doubt he finds himself drunk and sleeps with his daughters.
That is what kind of fellow he was- he first offered up his daughters to the rapists in town then he slept with them himself. And this was deemed even more righteous than the sodomites in Sodom. This is what God thinks of Sodomites. I didn't make up the story. I will leave it to you to google "Sodomite."
Does God use natural phenomenon to punish, warn, instruct or signal communication? Did God use the Pillar of Fire by day and smoke by night to guide the Israelites through the desert for 40 years? Did God part the Red Sea to signal and make a way of passage to freedom? Did God turn a bush into an eternal flame that didn't go out and didn't destroy the bush? Did God smash Sodom and sister city Gomorrah with punishing fire from heaven? Did an Earthquake shutter the region when Jesus hung on the cross? Did the sun spin and turn out of usual sequence at the apparition of the blessed mother at Fatima drying the land that had been wet with rain? Did God tell us clearly in Revelation that in the end times we will see floods and earthquakes and signs in the heavens? Does God manifest communications through signs in the natural world?
OF COURSE. What better way to get our attention.
Is it uncharitable to note that God moves in the heavens and on earth and manifests communications through the natural world? Hardly- it's just Fact. Perhaps you are not looking
hard enough or listening hard enough.
Does God think that an entire people can be so off the rail self-deluded in their persistent sin that he loses patience with them and just is done with them? Apparently so- ask the Sodomites- oh, you can't- not a one exists anywhere on earth.
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