Genesis Chapter 19: The wicked City of Sodom

In the last chapter, the two angels left Abraham and Abraham was talking to the LORD. In this chapter, those two angels went to Lot to see for themselves just how wicked Sodom had become. How bad was Sodom you ask? Sodom was so bad that when the townsfolk saw these two angels they wanted to rape them. In no time, the men of the City of Sodom had surrounded the house. Not just one or two men, this wickedness was widespread, the scriptures describes the composition of the mob as “…all the people from every quarter.” Genesis 19:4

Lot pleaded with the men to not act “wickedly” and offered his two daughters to the men instead. This only emboldened the mob.

Genesis 19:9 “But they said, “Stand aside.” Further-more, they said, “This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.”

I believe that this group of men was truly wicked. Why did so many men want to “have relations” with the angles? Why did they get even angrier when Lot offered up his daughters? Was this just lust? Seemed like more than lust to me. A former adult film (porn) director stated that he was troubled by how he had to “take it up a knotch” to satiate their viewers every time they created a new film. In fact, his productions got so radical and perverse that it made him sick to view them. Do I think that people can get this sick from sin? Absolutely. Sex outside of marriage is a break from God’s design. It is a perversion. Indulging in will absolutely corrupt your thoughts and life over time. I have yet to meet a person that has not had regrets for having sex outside of marriage.

Thank God the angles stepped in to stop Lot from giving his daughters up to them. Horrible things probably would have happened to them. The angels blinded the men at Lot’s house and told Lot and his family to get out of town. God was merciful to them and would spare their lives, but Sodom was going down!

Most of us know about Lot’s wife looking back and turning into a pillar of salt right? What I did not know is that both of Lot’s daughters got their father drunk on different nights, lay with him to preserve their family. Moab and Ben-ammi, the fathers of the Moabites and the sons of Ammon were conceived this way. When I read this part of the scripture at the end of chapter 19, it surprised me. I was judging Lot for attempting to give up his daughters as well as judging his daughters for sleeping with their father. I believe that the spirit is telling me that God’s word is truth. There are soooo many examples of God’s people doing things that I don’t agree with. But then I remember that it is not them that is perfect, but God himself and his word. We all make mistakes. Think of how your “book” would read if someone were to accurately account for your activities throughout the course of your life? Noah getting drunk isn’t looking so bad now is it?