Read Gen. 19:1-11
Now, we have only 2 angels so the Lord must have left them to do their job and he went back to heaven to do his. They reach Sodom first and appeared to Lot, one of the only righteous people in the city. Lot tried to convince them to stop and stay with him. In the middle east it is an unwritten commandment to be hospitable. They consider it an honor to have people stay with them. The angels turned Lot down at first saying they would stay in the street all night. Lot had to persuade them to stay with him knowing what happened at night in that city. It was evil and unsafe. They finally agreed to stay with Lot and he prepared them something to eat. But before they could retire to sleep, the men of the city came to get them and rape them. (We get the word sodomy from Sodom.) They were a city of homosexuals. Lot tried to beg with them not to harm his guests, even offering his own daughters to them. They didn’t like being judged by Lot and tried to force their way into Lot’s house through him. The angels reached out and pulled Lot into the house and shut the door. Then they struck all the men outside with blindness. Try as they might, they couldn’t find the door. This is a picture of the spiritual blindness they were in. Jesus is the door (John 10:9) but they were too blind to find it. Jesus called the Pharasees blind guides who were leading others even though they could not see themselves (Matt 23:14-26). In John 9:39, Jesus said, “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.” The men of Sodom had so filled their heart with evil and perversion that they could not be converted. Their hearts were hardened so God had to bring judgment.
Lord, thank you for revealing the door to us and the way, the truth and that comes by entering it.
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