1207. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed — Genesis 19:1-29

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1207.

Sodom Gomorrah Destroyed
 
Today's Passage: Genesis 19:1-29
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Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
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• Prepare your heart - that means ask Him to open you to be able to listen well.
• Ask Jesus to bring you into the very presence of God Himself as you read instructions
• Imagine the characters in this passage.
• Are they facing a large enemy? or a challenge? 
• Have they followed God? or have they fled from His guidance?
• Are they trusting God?
• Are they experiencing pain, or loss?
• Imagine them as friends.
• What would you do if you were there beside them?
• Would you be willing to encourage them?
• What would you do if you were experiencing their story?
• Who would you turn to for guidance? God? A mentor? Satan?
• Ask God to show you how to lean on Him in times of attack, or challenge.
• Has God come in and strongly supported someone whose heart is completely His?
• Thank God for His presence with you right now.

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1. That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
2. "My lords," he said, "come to my home to wash your feet, and by my guests for the night. You may then get up early in the morning and be on your way again."

"Oh no," they replied, "We'll just spend the night out here in the city square."

3. But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate. 
4. But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.
5. They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

6. So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him.
7. "Please, my brothers, " he begged, "don't do such a wicked thing.
8. Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection."

9. "Stand back!" they shouted, "This fellow came to town as an outsider, and now he's acting like our judge! We'll treat you far worse than those other men!" And they lunged toward Lot to break down the door. 

10. But the two angels reached out, pulled Lot into the house, and bolted the door.
11. Then they blinded all the men, young and old, who were at the door of the house, so they gave up trying to get inside.

12. Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. "Do you have any other relatives here in the city?" they asked. "Get them out of this place — your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. 
13. For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the LORD, and he has sent us to destroy it.
14. So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters' fiancés, "Quick get out of the city! The LORD is about to destroy it." But the young men thought he was only joking.

15. At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. "Hurry," they said to Lot. "Take your wife and your two daughers who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!"

16. When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the LORD was merciful.
17. When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, "Run for your lives! And don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"

18. "Oh no, my lord!" Lot begged, 
19. "You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die. 
20. See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don't you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved."

21. "All right," the angel said, "I will grant your request I will not destroy the little village
22. But hurry! Escape to it, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." (This explains why that village was known as Zoar, which means "little place.")

23. Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon.
24. Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from  the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
25. He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation.
26. But Lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.

27. Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the LORD'S presence. 
28. He looked out across the plain toward Sodom ad Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.

29. But God had listened to Abraham's request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.
Genesis 19:1-29 NLT

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