Sun.’s Devo - The Final Judgment on the Earth

Read: Genesis 18:20-19:38; Matthew 6:25-7:14; Psalm 8: 1-9; Proverbs 2:6-15
The angel of the Lord came to tell Abraham what his intentions were for Sodom and Gomorrah. Amos 3:7 says, “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” God had heard the outcry against the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and was coming to see himself. Abraham knew how wicked the city was and he also knew that Lot and his family lived there. He interceded with the Lord to save it if there were only 10 righteous people. When the Lord arrived he saw for himself that they were so evil, the couldn’t recognize the holiness of the Lord when he came. All they could think about was perversion and self-gratification.
There weren’t 10 righteous people, but, God did save three: Lot and his two daughters. The whole cities went up in fire and bituminous smoke and when Lot’s wife turned to lament, she too turned into a pillar of salt. Sodom means “to scorch; burnt (volcanic or bituminous). Gomorrah means “a ruined heap”. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a picture of the final judgment. God will preserve is own first, then pour down his wrath on the earth.
What happened next was the direct influence of living in such a perverted city. Lot’s two daughters took matters into their own hand and manipulated their father’s seed. They got him drunk, had sex with him and produced offspring to carry his line. Their son’s names were Moab and Ben-ammi which mean “what father?” and “son of my people”. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they tried to explain to their father how they got pregnant. It doesn’t tell us if they ever told him.
Jesus tells us in Matthew that when we need something, all we have to do is ask. History would have been different if the daughters of Lot had just asked God to send their father another wife to carry on his seed.
Proverbs tells us about two different men. One of them receives God’s words and holds them close. This person will grow in knowledge and wisdom and stand in godly confidence against evil. The other man speaks lies, walks in darkness and evil. His ways are perverse and his path slippery.
O Lord or Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!