Wed.’s Devo - The Destruction of Sodom

Read Gen. 18:20-19:38, Matt. 6:25- 7:14, Ps. 8:1-9, Pr. 2:6-15 We read in Matthew that wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and narrow is the gate that leads to life - few find it. Sodom and Gomorrah were the wide gates. Only Lot and his two daughters found the narrow gate. They were almost drug through it…. the mercy of God. I noticed that the angel ate unleavened bread with Abraham before destroying Sodom. Unleavened bread speaks of getting the sin out. I became a feast. Every time it is mentioned in a story, God is going to rid the world of some great wickedness. Right before Jesus died, he ate unleavened bread with his disciples. This was a picture of his body that is sinless. He was about to give his sinless body to rid the world of sin. This is available to all who believe - a sin free life. Sin is no longer charged against us. We are righteous through the blood of Jesus applied to the door of our hearts. At the end of our reading in Genesis, we see the daughters of Lot having sex with their father. I have so many questions about this. For one…it’s incest and that is wrong. Did they eventually tell Lot the babies were his or did they just try to deceive him into thinking they were pregnant by their husbands who died in the fire? The first son was named Moab which means “of what father?”….so someone was asking. His descendants grew up to hate the Israelites. The king of Moab, Balak hired Balaam to curse them. The other son was named Ben-Ammi which became the father of the Ammonites who partnered with the Moabites in harassing Israel. The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a picture of end time destruction. God promised he would destroy the earth by fire. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You guard and protect the way of your faithful ones.