GOSPEL ROUND UP BY AARON IPISANI
SODOM AND GOMORRAH (Gen. 18-19)
These two cities were cesspools of evil. They werd located not very far from Hebron, the home of Abraham, and from Jerusalem, the home of Melchizedek. It had been only 400 years since the Flood, almost within the memory of the people then living. Yet they had forgotten the lesson of that cataclysmic destruction of the race. And God "rained down burning sulfur" on these two cities, to refresh men's memories and to warn of the wrath of God that is kn store for the wicked--and, perhaps, also to serve as forshadowing of earthly's final doom in a holocaust of fire (2 Peter 2:5-6; 3:7, 10; and Rev. 8:5, 7; 9:17-18; 16:8).
Jesus compared the time of His return to the days of Sodom (Luke 17:26-32) and to the days before the Flood. Both were periods of unspeakable wickedness. Today, with greed, brutality, crime, and racial and religious conflict rampant kn scale never before known in history, it does not require much imagination tk see the end toward which we are heading, however much good men and statesman may try to avert it. Unless there comes a worldwide movement of repentance, the day of doom may not be far off.
The sons born to Lot's daughters began the lineage of the Moabites and Ammonites, who became bitter enemies of Abraham's descendants (Samuel 14:47; 2 Chronicles 20:1).
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