EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/23/2025 8:46 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The Apostate
Gentiles”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 7
Message of the verse: “Just as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these
indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an
example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.”
In
this evenings SD we will be looking at the third illustration of past divine
judgments on apostates, as Jude reminded his readers about Sodom and Gomorrah. Now the
wicked people who lived in those cities, “and
the cities around them.” engaged in sins equally as shocking and horrific as
those of the angels. Here are the
accounts from Genesis as they are found in Genesis 8:16-19:29 as that recounts
the sordid details, with also 19:1-11 giving particular focus to the debauched
actions of their unrepentant residents.
We will now look at this passage:
“1 Now
the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of
Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with
his face to the ground. 2 And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please
turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet;
then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No,
but we shall spend the night in the square." 3 Yet he urged them strongly,
so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for
them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Before they lay down, the men
of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all
the people from every quarter; 5 and they called to Lot and said to him,
"Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we
may have relations with them." 6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and
shut the door behind him, 7 and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act
wickedly. 8 “Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with
man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like;
only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of
my roof." 9 But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they
said, "This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a
judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard
against Lot and came near to break the door. 10 But the men reached out their
hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 They struck the men who were at
the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they
wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.”
As you read over the highlighted
portion of verse 11 you will find out that this is not the worst thing that
will happen to these men, as in the morning fire will come down on Sodom and Gomorrah
and both cities will be completely destroyed.
I have read from some commentators that they think that these cities are
located at the bottom of the Dead Sea.
That is as far as I am going to go
with this section this evening, as Lord willing I will finish this section and
the chapter in tomorrow evening’s SD.
7/23/2025 7:39 PM
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