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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - A Tale Of Two Cities

August 16, 2025 | S25 E12 | 28:43

John Tweedie - A Tale Of Two Cities
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - A Tale Of Two Cities | August 16, 2025
  • What you can see
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  • Behind me was once a fertile plain.
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  • That is, until the day
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  • The god almighty rained down fire and brimstone.
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  • And obliterated the cities and the people who lived here.
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  • That story next.
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  • In this episode of the prophetic connection.
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  • Soft music
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  • Sea in israel was once lush and fertile.
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  • But the cities that were here were full of wickedness.
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  • The problem was that abraham, the patriarch,
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  • God's servant, a man he called his friend, lived here,
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  • As did his nephew lot with their families.
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  • So when god told abraham what he was about to do,
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  • That he was going to destroy the cities.
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  • Abraham interceded with god and pleaded particularly
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  • For the city of sodom, because lot and his family lived there.
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  • So abraham tried to make a bargain with god.
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  • He said,
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  • If i can find 50 righteous men in the city, will you spare it?
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  • And god said, i will.
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  • Then 45 and 30, and all the way down to ten.
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  • And abraham pleaded, if i can find ten righteous men
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  • In the city of sodom, will you spare it?
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  • And god said, i will.
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  • But abraham couldn't find ten righteous men.
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  • So god destroyed the city.
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  • But he first of all delivered
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  • Lot his wife and their two daughters.
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  • So the angels took lot
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  • And his wife and daughters by the hands,
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  • And brought them out of sodom, and fire and brimstone fell
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  • Soon after that.
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  • The dead sea region in israel.
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  • Today a barren landscape was once a fertile plain,
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  • At least until god poured out his wrath
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  • In the form of fire and brimstone
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  • Upon several cities and their inhabitants.
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  • But how corrupt must these places
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  • Have been to invite such severe punishment from heaven?
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  • That story is very interesting, and this is such a great lesson
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  • For the western civilization.
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  • We think there's a connection between law and order, culture
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  • And technology on one hand and morality on the other.
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  • And not only is a no connection, i would say historically,
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  • You can make a great case for the most technologically,
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  • Culturally, and law and order societies
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  • Being the most evil in terms of their behavior.
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  • Nazi germany was as culturally and in any
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  • The german personality is we will follow the laws.
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  • Incredibly, law and order, a very conformist society.
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  • You see, you see this
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  • Ancient rome that rome is known for its codification of law
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  • And technology.
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  • They had running water and public toilets and bathhouses.
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  • But look what they do with the technology.
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  • Germany gave us factories for mass murder.
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  • Rome, for all of its sophistication,
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  • Did some pretty horrible things in the world
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  • That if you look into,
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  • Especially the rabbinic literature,
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  • It talks about what's going on in sodom and gomorrah.
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  • These were societies that work only.
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  • There's an idea in judaism that god has two attributes.
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  • It's called mediator.
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  • Din admitted to him
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  • The attribute of mercy, which is one of the gods names,
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  • Which is used specifically in hebrew.
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  • God acting the world using this pure judgment.
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  • Strict judgment.
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  • No bending the rules. you do it smack.
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  • And then there's mercy.
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  • Without the mercy, there'd be no world.
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  • Because god has infinite patience for us.
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  • Sodom runs on absolute judgment and justice.
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  • Meaning there's a famous midrash story about,
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  • You know, anyone in and dome, as it's called sodom,
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  • Who was charitable, would be killed
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  • Because absolute justice demands you.
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  • You don't like bend the rules
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  • To give someone something in work for this is,
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  • You know, survival of the fittest.
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  • This is a rough world, but that's how it works.
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  • So it was a very sophisticated place
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  • In what was at the time, before it was, like nuked.
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  • A very nice part of the world, but
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  • An incredibly organized but very evil society.
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  • And dangerously because disorganized,
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  • Primitive societies limit how much damage they can do.
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  • This is sort of the paradigm,
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  • The model for those future societies
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  • That seemingly are organized in law and order, but incredibly
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  • Immoral and even immoral, and end up being antithetical to
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  • What the jewish worldview is about in places
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  • Like that, cannot survive.
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  • And god doesn't let them to survive back then.
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  • Could it be
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  • That there were
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  • No righteous people in any of these cities of the plain?
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  • This is what grabbed abraham.
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  • He wanted to save as many people as possible and pleaded.
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  • And to see them before god and god's.
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  • Esther was find me righteous people.
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  • And eventually i think what what came to light was
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  • It was only lotte who was the only righteous person,
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  • Much like noah.
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  • And, and they came out to rescue him.
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  • If we look at the biblical accounts,
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  • We can see that there are other righteous people in the area.
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  • They're just not in these particular cities.
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  • For instance, we're dealing with lotte in sodom and gomorrah,
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  • But we're also dealing with abraham not too far away.
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  • And that's a righteous family.
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  • And we know that he has almost
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  • A thousand people in his household because he has 318
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  • Trained fighting men born in his household.
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  • So abraham is a very large, impactful,
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  • A patriarch at the time.
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  • We also see
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  • Other surrounding regions that god does not destroy.
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  • So it could be that the, the, the description, the definition,
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  • The filter
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  • Of were there righteous people that that abraham negotiates
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  • With god? is there ten righteous people?
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  • Maybe they couldn't find ten in sodom.
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  • They couldn't find ten in gomorrah,
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  • But maybe they could find ten
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  • In other towns, including abraham's area,
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  • Because he again, he had access to kings.
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  • He had access to armies, which means he was influential.
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  • But you better believe that his family, his extended
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  • Family was god followers.
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  • So for me, it looks like these very defined walled cities
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  • Was where god stopped that judgment.
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  • It didn't it didn't extend to beyond that region
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  • And everyone in that region.
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  • But he defined those cities.
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  • And why would he do that?
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  • Because god works within authority.
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  • If there is a king of the city, and these days
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  • City states had kings, we would call them
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  • Mayors today, maybe.
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  • But if that mayor had governing defined authority of the city,
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  • Then that's what god was going to judge.
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  • But that may or may not have
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  • Authority in the next city or the next region.
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  • So he's not worthy of judgment in those moments
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  • Because god can find righteous.
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  • I think it has to do with the boundary line of authority
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  • That the leaders of the city had.
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  • There was no more righteous
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  • That were going to come to faith than those towns.
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  • It was very defined.
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  • But there are certainly
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  • Was other righteous that could be found in the area.
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  • Are there
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  • Parallels between our day and lot's generation?
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  • There are numerous parallels
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  • Between the condition of our society and culture as
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  • And as it was in the days of lot, the, blurring
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  • Of the genders, the sexualization of everything,
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  • The incredible, violence that's being released, in society
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  • At an interpersonal level and, even at a, social level.
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  • There are so many parallels that,
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  • We believe that they that the judgments that were brought upon
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  • Sodom and gomorrah are impending on much of our society today.
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  • It's a really a fearsome thing.
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  • However, as in the days of sodom and gomorrah,
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  • God was willing to spare the society
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  • If he could find a remnant of believers.
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  • And that's how important the remnant is.
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  • The bible is replete with examples of individuals
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  • And nations that passed
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  • God's tipping points and invited his wrath.
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  • Noah's generation is a case in point.
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  • Abraham and lot's
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  • Generation is another example of a wicked society
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  • That prompted god to act in judgment against those
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  • Who had violated his precepts and moral standards.
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  • We've called this episode a tale of two cities,
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  • But in truth, it is really a tale of five cities.
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  • Five particularly wicked cities that were here
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  • In the time of abraham, which is some 3800 years ago.
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  • And the cities are listed for us in chapter
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  • 14 of genesis in verse one.
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  • And it came to pass in the days of amprafel,
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  • King of shinar area, king of eleazar
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  • And shadow lamar, king of elam and title king of nations,
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  • That they made war with bera, king of sodom, persia,
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  • King of gomorrah.
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  • Chinna, king of adama. shumi.
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  • Eber, king of boom and the king of bela, that is zoar.
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  • So bela was also the city of zoar.
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  • All these joined together in the valley of sedum,
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  • That is the salt sea.
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  • Now the salt sea is directly behind me,
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  • And that was its ancient name.
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  • But it's also known today as the dead sea.
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  • So here we have five kings,
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  • Engaged in battle.
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  • That's just to let you know that there were five cities here.
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  • But the two cities that were particularly wicked in
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  • The sight of god were sodom and gomorrah, two of the five.
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  • So as we move through the book of genesis
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  • And we come to chapter 18, we discover that god comes down
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  • To speak with abraham, chapter 18, verse one.
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  • Then the lord appeared to him, to abraham
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  • By the terrible trees of memory,
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  • As he was sitting in the tent or in the heat of the day.
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  • So he lifted his eyes
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  • And looked, and behold, three men were standing by him.
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  • And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them,
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  • And bowed himself to the ground.
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  • So this is an act of reverence which leaves the question,
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  • Who were these three men?
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  • Now let me suggest to you that one of them was
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  • Jesus of nazareth, the priest incarnate, jesus of nazareth,
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  • Because abraham refers to him as the lord.
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  • And the other two clearly were angels from heaven.
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  • And we'll see that
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  • As i continue to read scriptures in the book of genesis.
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  • But let me jump then, because the
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  • Abraham
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  • Shows the three visitors hospitality
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  • And there's a discussion, with about sarah,
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  • His wife, and about sarah going to give birth.
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  • And, but i want to pass over that part of it.
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  • It's really a prophetic word that abraham and sarah received,
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  • About having a child.
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  • But in verse 16 we read.
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  • Then the man rose from there and looked toward sodom,
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  • And abraham went with them to send them on the way.
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  • So typical middle eastern hospitality.
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  • He walks with them part of the way.
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  • And then to say goodbye.
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  • Then the lord said, shall i hide from abraham what i am doing?
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  • And in fact, specifically what i'm about to do, since
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  • Abraham should surely become a great and mighty nation,
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  • And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.
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  • And of course, he gave birth
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  • To the nation of israel, for i have known him in order
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  • That he may command his children and his household after him,
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  • But they may keep the way of the lord
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  • To do righteousness and justice, that the lord
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  • May bring to abraham what he has spoken to him.
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  • Then there is a shift in sentiment in verse 20.
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  • And the lord said,
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  • Because the outcry against sodom and gomorrah is great,
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  • And because
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  • Their sin is very grave,
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  • I will now go down
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  • And see whether they have done all together,
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  • According to the outcry against it
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  • That has come up to me.
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  • And if not, i will know.
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  • Then the man turned away from there and went towards sodom.
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  • But abraham still stood before the lord.
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  • This is where the appeals begin,
  • 00:13:56.603 --> 00:13:58.505
  • Where abraham says in verse 23, and abraham came near and said,
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  • Would you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
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  • And presumably abraham is certainly thinking of lot,
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  • His nephew, and his family,
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  • But perhaps thinking in a in broader terms
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  • That surely there must be other righteous people in this city
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  • Before god absolutely destroys it.
  • 00:14:15.889 --> 00:14:19.026
  • Anyway, the bargaining process begins
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  • And it's whittled down to ten men.
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  • And basically abraham says, if i can then
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  • Find ten righteous men, will you spare the city?
  • 00:14:28.335 --> 00:14:32.005
  • And god said, i will spare it for ten righteous men.
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  • But the sad truth is,
  • 00:14:35.876 --> 00:14:37.711
  • Abraham couldn't find ten righteous men.
  • 00:14:38.512 --> 00:14:41.481
  • Now there's a lesson in this, and that is that a city, state,
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  • Or a nation can either improve or disintegrate.
  • 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:49.556
  • In other words, wickedness will eventually take over.
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  • And that's what happened.
  • 00:14:52.592 --> 00:14:54.061
  • Abraham couldn't find even ten righteous men.
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  • The whole city was totally given over to sin and wickedness.
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  • Greatest depravity.
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  • So now when we move to genesis chapter 19,
  • 00:15:05.672 --> 00:15:09.142
  • We pick up the rest of the story.
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  • Now the two angels came to sodom in the evening,
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  • And lord was sitting in the gate of sodom when last saw them.
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  • He rose to meet them,
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  • And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
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  • So he showed his reverence for them. now
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  • A man sitting in the city gate was probably
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  • One of the leaders of the city,
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  • Because it's known that in ancient times the judges
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  • Or the elders of the city sat in the gate.
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  • They offered counsel, they conducted business
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  • So we would easily skip over that and say, well,
  • 00:15:38.705 --> 00:15:41.375
  • He was sitting in the city gate.
  • 00:15:41.375 --> 00:15:42.943
  • But there's deeper meaning to that than meets the eye.
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  • And so he by this time seemingly was had influence
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  • In sodom and quite possibly one of the leaders.
  • 00:15:50.417 --> 00:15:53.920
  • But he recognized the angels for who they were,
  • 00:15:53.920 --> 00:15:57.024
  • Because he bowed before them with reverence.
  • 00:15:57.024 --> 00:15:59.793
  • And then in verse two and he said, here, now, my lords,
  • 00:15:59.793 --> 00:16:02.629
  • Please turn into your servants house and spend the night
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  • And wash your feet.
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  • Then you may rise early and go on your way.
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  • And they said, no,
  • 00:16:10.337 --> 00:16:11.605
  • But we will spend the night in the open square.
  • 00:16:11.605 --> 00:16:14.708
  • Now remember, they're introduced in the very first verse here
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  • As angels,
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  • But obviously the angels that have taken on human form
  • 00:16:19.846 --> 00:16:23.216
  • And we know that this is possible
  • 00:16:23.216 --> 00:16:24.584
  • Because hebrews tells us
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  • That people have entertained angels unaware.
  • 00:16:26.586 --> 00:16:29.923
  • I won't take the time in this episode,
  • 00:16:29.923 --> 00:16:31.992
  • But i can tell you of a couple of times
  • 00:16:31.992 --> 00:16:35.362
  • Afterthoughts that i might have been in the presence of angels,
  • 00:16:35.362 --> 00:16:38.632
  • And i just can't be sure of it.
  • 00:16:38.632 --> 00:16:40.333
  • But there were unusual circumstances,
  • 00:16:40.333 --> 00:16:42.436
  • And i'll say not much.
  • 00:16:42.436 --> 00:16:43.503
  • I will say one thing.
  • 00:16:43.503 --> 00:16:44.905
  • A little lady that i didn't know,
  • 00:16:44.905 --> 00:16:47.674
  • Affirmed my call to ministry
  • 00:16:48.275 --> 00:16:50.243
  • With incredible authority, and i was left wondering afterwards,
  • 00:16:50.243 --> 00:16:53.847
  • Did i just encounter an angel from heaven bringing me
  • 00:16:53.847 --> 00:16:57.451
  • A word of affirmation from the almighty god?
  • 00:16:57.451 --> 00:17:00.120
  • But i can't say.
  • 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:01.421
  • I just remember the moment anyway.
  • 00:17:01.421 --> 00:17:03.857
  • But he insisted strongly, so they turned into him
  • 00:17:03.857 --> 00:17:06.593
  • And entered his house,
  • 00:17:06.593 --> 00:17:07.794
  • That he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread,
  • 00:17:07.794 --> 00:17:10.897
  • And they ate.
  • 00:17:10.897 --> 00:17:12.532
  • So angels obviously can eat and digest
  • 00:17:12.532 --> 00:17:16.236
  • In some form, at least now, before they lay down
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  • The men of the city, the men of sodom, both old
  • 00:17:19.072 --> 00:17:21.174
  • And young, all the people from every quarter
  • 00:17:21.174 --> 00:17:24.177
  • Surrounded the house.
  • 00:17:24.177 --> 00:17:26.213
  • They call to lot and said to him,
  • 00:17:26.213 --> 00:17:28.281
  • Where are the men who came to you tonight?
  • 00:17:28.281 --> 00:17:31.151
  • So they saw them as men.
  • 00:17:31.151 --> 00:17:32.686
  • Obviously their physical shape
  • 00:17:32.686 --> 00:17:35.255
  • Bring them out to us, that we may know them carnally.
  • 00:17:35.255 --> 00:17:38.792
  • So here's the level of the depravity.
  • 00:17:38.792 --> 00:17:40.827
  • So a lot went out to them through the doorway,
  • 00:17:40.827 --> 00:17:43.497
  • Shut the door behind him so you can see his
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  • Why he needed to do this,
  • 00:17:45.866 --> 00:17:47.534
  • But sort of protecting the angels,
  • 00:17:47.534 --> 00:17:50.003
  • Or at least hiding them from view.
  • 00:17:50.003 --> 00:17:51.938
  • It was, in a sense, a futile attempt.
  • 00:17:51.938 --> 00:17:54.241
  • But that's what happened.
  • 00:17:54.241 --> 00:17:56.276
  • And then in verse seven and said, please,
  • 00:17:56.276 --> 00:17:59.179
  • My brethren, do not do so wickedly.
  • 00:17:59.179 --> 00:18:02.582
  • Now notice this.
  • 00:18:02.983 --> 00:18:04.451
  • And it's a strange thing
  • 00:18:04.451 --> 00:18:05.652
  • For a father to do, but it's written in the text.
  • 00:18:05.652 --> 00:18:09.589
  • And here's what happened in verse eight.
  • 00:18:09.589 --> 00:18:11.258
  • See, now i have two daughters who have not known a man.
  • 00:18:11.258 --> 00:18:15.328
  • Please let me bring them out to you
  • 00:18:15.328 --> 00:18:18.431
  • That you may do to them as you wish.
  • 00:18:18.431 --> 00:18:20.967
  • I mean, imagine a father doing that, but it's here only.
  • 00:18:20.967 --> 00:18:26.006
  • And perhaps it says something about lot's less
  • 00:18:26.006 --> 00:18:29.509
  • Righteous nature, but in any case,
  • 00:18:29.509 --> 00:18:32.245
  • Only do nothing to these men,
  • 00:18:32.245 --> 00:18:34.181
  • Since this is the reason they have come
  • 00:18:34.181 --> 00:18:35.982
  • Under the shadow of my roof.
  • 00:18:35.982 --> 00:18:38.118
  • And they said, the men of the city stand back.
  • 00:18:38.118 --> 00:18:40.987
  • Then they said,
  • 00:18:40.987 --> 00:18:42.222
  • This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge.
  • 00:18:42.222 --> 00:18:45.892
  • So now they're saying to lot, you're
  • 00:18:45.892 --> 00:18:48.261
  • You're acting like the judge.
  • 00:18:48.261 --> 00:18:49.496
  • And we probably were here before you and you,
  • 00:18:49.496 --> 00:18:51.932
  • You don't have this pride of position anyway.
  • 00:18:51.932 --> 00:18:55.335
  • They're accusing him now.
  • 00:18:55.335 --> 00:18:56.903
  • We will deal worse with you than with them.
  • 00:18:56.903 --> 00:18:59.573
  • So they pressed hard against the man lot
  • 00:18:59.573 --> 00:19:01.908
  • And came near to break down the door.
  • 00:19:01.908 --> 00:19:04.511
  • And here's where the story shifts.
  • 00:19:04.511 --> 00:19:06.713
  • But the men reach out their hands.
  • 00:19:06.713 --> 00:19:08.615
  • The angels that is called men in the verse,
  • 00:19:08.615 --> 00:19:11.851
  • And poured a lot into the house with them, and shut the door,
  • 00:19:11.851 --> 00:19:15.488
  • And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house
  • 00:19:15.488 --> 00:19:18.558
  • With blindness, both small and great,
  • 00:19:18.558 --> 00:19:21.461
  • So that they became weary trying to find the door.
  • 00:19:21.461 --> 00:19:25.799
  • Then the men said to lot, have you anyone else here,
  • 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:30.070
  • Son in law, your sons, your daughters,
  • 00:19:30.070 --> 00:19:32.505
  • And whomever you have in the city,
  • 00:19:32.505 --> 00:19:34.441
  • Take them out of this place, for we will destroy this place,
  • 00:19:34.441 --> 00:19:38.178
  • Because the outcry against them is growing great
  • 00:19:38.178 --> 00:19:40.880
  • Before the face of the lord, and the lord has sent us
  • 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.584
  • To destroy it.
  • 00:19:44.584 --> 00:19:45.852
  • So you can see there's the drama is increasing.
  • 00:19:45.852 --> 00:19:49.422
  • There's a sense of urgency.
  • 00:19:49.422 --> 00:19:51.191
  • The angels are about to act on behalf of the almighty god.
  • 00:19:51.191 --> 00:19:55.262
  • So we read in verse 14, so lotte went out and spoke to his sons
  • 00:19:55.262 --> 00:19:58.665
  • In law, who had married his daughters, and said, get up,
  • 00:19:58.665 --> 00:20:02.002
  • Get out of this place, for the lord will destroy this city.
  • 00:20:02.002 --> 00:20:05.605
  • But to his sons in law.
  • 00:20:05.605 --> 00:20:07.073
  • He seemed to be joking.
  • 00:20:07.073 --> 00:20:08.708
  • I mean, it seemed like outlandish to them.
  • 00:20:08.708 --> 00:20:11.544
  • They weren't laughing for long.
  • 00:20:11.544 --> 00:20:13.346
  • Verse 15, when the morning dawned,
  • 00:20:13.346 --> 00:20:15.282
  • The angels urged lord to hurry, saying, arise, take your wife
  • 00:20:15.282 --> 00:20:19.252
  • And your two daughters who are here, lest
  • 00:20:19.252 --> 00:20:21.788
  • You be consumed in the punishment of this city.
  • 00:20:21.788 --> 00:20:25.458
  • And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand,
  • 00:20:25.458 --> 00:20:27.861
  • That is, the angels,
  • 00:20:27.861 --> 00:20:29.062
  • His wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters.
  • 00:20:29.062 --> 00:20:32.032
  • The lord, being merciful to him.
  • 00:20:32.032 --> 00:20:33.933
  • And they brought him out and set him outside the city.
  • 00:20:33.933 --> 00:20:36.803
  • Now it's interesting he lingered.
  • 00:20:36.803 --> 00:20:38.371
  • And what does that say to us?
  • 00:20:38.371 --> 00:20:40.974
  • Almost.
  • 00:20:40.974 --> 00:20:41.808
  • It says to me that he was reluctant.
  • 00:20:41.808 --> 00:20:44.377
  • He was reluctant to leave.
  • 00:20:44.377 --> 00:20:46.579
  • And of course we know that
  • 00:20:47.147 --> 00:20:48.715
  • As they left the city, his wife offered
  • 00:20:48.715 --> 00:20:51.818
  • And had been warned not to even look back.
  • 00:20:51.818 --> 00:20:54.287
  • But she took a backward glance and turned into a pillar
  • 00:20:54.287 --> 00:20:58.024
  • Of salt,
  • 00:20:58.024 --> 00:20:59.125
  • Which is to suggest that we need to be absolutely
  • 00:20:59.125 --> 00:21:02.595
  • Obedient to the word of the lord.
  • 00:21:02.595 --> 00:21:04.297
  • And in this case she wasn't, and she paid the price.
  • 00:21:04.297 --> 00:21:08.101
  • So then we see in verse 20,
  • 00:21:08.101 --> 00:21:11.004
  • See now, because he's fleeing, but where is he going to go?
  • 00:21:11.004 --> 00:21:14.441
  • So now we read.
  • 00:21:14.441 --> 00:21:15.608
  • See, now this city is near enough to flee to.
  • 00:21:15.608 --> 00:21:18.211
  • And it is a little one. please.
  • 00:21:18.211 --> 00:21:20.780
  • This is like pleading, please let me escape there, is it not?
  • 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:24.284
  • A little one on my soul shall live.
  • 00:21:24.284 --> 00:21:26.586
  • And he, the angel, said to him, see,
  • 00:21:26.586 --> 00:21:29.089
  • I have favored you concerning this thing also,
  • 00:21:29.089 --> 00:21:32.592
  • In that i will not overthrow this city
  • 00:21:32.592 --> 00:21:35.095
  • For which you have spoken.
  • 00:21:35.095 --> 00:21:36.730
  • Hurry, escape there, for i cannot do anything
  • 00:21:36.730 --> 00:21:40.100
  • Until you arrive there.
  • 00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:41.801
  • Therefore the name of the city was called zoar.
  • 00:21:41.801 --> 00:21:45.271
  • But why did god spare this city when he destroyed
  • 00:21:45.271 --> 00:21:49.042
  • The other four?
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  • I'll come
  • 00:21:50.577 --> 00:21:51.811
  • Back to this intriguing question after this very short break.
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  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
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  • The bible says,
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  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
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  • From the dead, you will be saved.
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  • Who care about israel,
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  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
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  • Because they are suffering so much.
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  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
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  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
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  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
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  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
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  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
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  • So we
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  • Know from the scriptures that lord,
  • 00:23:18.298 --> 00:23:20.867
  • Found refuge in the city of zoar.
  • 00:23:20.867 --> 00:23:23.603
  • But he lost his wife in the process.
  • 00:23:23.603 --> 00:23:27.006
  • And why did god spare us or.
  • 00:23:27.006 --> 00:23:28.475
  • Well, perhaps
  • 00:23:28.475 --> 00:23:29.609
  • There were at least ten righteous men within that city,
  • 00:23:29.609 --> 00:23:33.713
  • While sodom and gomorrah and the other two
  • 00:23:33.713 --> 00:23:36.082
  • Were thoroughly given over to absolute wickedness.
  • 00:23:36.082 --> 00:23:40.119
  • Now, as you can tell, i'm being bothered by flies.
  • 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:43.890
  • You cannot film in the desert and not have problems
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  • With flies.
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  • And also, just for your information,
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  • It is 32°c.
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  • Somewhere above 90°f. but.
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  • And i don't know why lot wanted to live here.
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  • Why would anyone want to live in this?
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  • We will now say almost god forsaken place.
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  • But the truth is, wherever god is, it's not forsaken.
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  • It's simply the desert region of israel.
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  • But remember, it used to be a lush, fertile plain.
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  • And by the way, you can see,
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  • Bulrushes behind me because the
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  • The waters, fresh waters
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  • Are coming up from under the dead sea,
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  • And i believe that's from underground rivers.
  • 00:24:23.296 --> 00:24:25.565
  • But this is a fulfillment
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  • Of a prophecy that the prophet isaiah gave long ago.
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  • And you can read of it in isaiah 35,
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  • Where the will be pools by the dead sea,
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  • Fresh water, and there will be bulrushes and reeds,
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  • And the birds can drink from these pools,
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  • Whereas they can't drink from the dead sea,
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  • Because that would kill them.
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  • But this is a fulfillment of prophecy.
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  • So god is beginning to irrigate this desert region, and
  • 00:24:48.988 --> 00:24:53.493
  • Prophecies are being fulfilled as it comes back to life.
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  • But back to the story with plot.
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  • The only explanation is that there was less,
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  • Unrighteous than sodom and gomorrah and the other cities.
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  • But there's a lesson in this for us.
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  • And actually, it's found in the lips of jesus.
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  • And let me just read this in luke 17.
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  • We read this, and we've read this before,
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  • A prophecy about the end times,
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  • Like the freshwater pools by the dead sea.
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  • But jesus said in verse 26, luke 17,
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  • As it was in the days of noah, so it will also be in the days
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  • Of the son of man meeting his coming.
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  • They ate, they drank, they married wives.
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  • They were given in marriage until the day that noah entered
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  • The ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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  • Likewise, as it was also in the days of lot.
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  • They ate, they drank,
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  • They bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
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  • But on the day that lot went out of sodom,
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  • It rained fire and brimstone from heaven
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  • And destroyed them all.
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  • Even so, it will be in the day when the son of man is revealed.
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  • So jesus is affirming these stories
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  • By drawing attention to them out of the history of israel,
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  • And as examples of what happens to men
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  • Who live in sin and invite god's judgment.
  • 00:26:13.206 --> 00:26:17.577
  • And one final scripture for this episode,
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  • It's found on the lips.
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  • Well, actually, the pen of the apostle peter,
  • 00:26:22.015 --> 00:26:24.584
  • Who uses the same example in second peter two,
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  • In chapter two, in verse four.
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  • For if god did not spare the angels of sin,
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  • Who cast them down to hell, and delivered them
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  • Into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment,
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  • And did not spare the ancient world,
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  • But to save noah, one of eight people,
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  • A preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
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  • On the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of sodom
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  • And gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction.
  • 00:26:50.877 --> 00:26:55.348
  • Basically making an example of all of these things,
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  • Of what happens to people who do not repent
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  • And find faith in god through jesus christ.
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  • Now we're almost
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  • At the end of this series, but in the very last episode,
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  • We're going to look at god's tipping point.
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  • These events in scripture showed people past
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  • God's tipping point.
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  • How close are we today in the 21st century?
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  • Thanks so much for watching the prophetic connection.
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  • Join us next time for god's tipping point.
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