EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/06/2025/6:00
PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1“The Case of Sodom and Gomorrah”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:6-8
Message of the verses: “and if He condemned the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them
as an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter, and if He
rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt
his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),”
This evening we begin to look at
Peter’s third historical illustration of divine judgment, Peter descended to
the perverted depths of Sodom and Gomorrah, and that is a really long
way down to the sexual sins of homosexuality.
At one time, they were the main cities
of the Jordan plain or basin as seen in Gen. 13:12; 14:8; and Deut. 29:3,
as they were located in the Valley of Siddim or Salt Sea, near the southeast
corner of the Dead Sea. Before the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis favorably describes the area as fertile—and
ideal place for raising crops and animals (13:8-10). Just take a moment to look at what this despicable
sin did even the land where it was going on, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Now
because of their gross sin, God condemned both cities to
destruction. The judgment described
in Genesis 19:1-28 was a small-scale parallel to the worldwide Flood (which occurred
about 450 years earlier). Like Noah and
his family, Lot and his daughters were the only inhabitants to escape. All of the other citizens of Sodom and
Gomorrah were obliterated this time by incineration and asphyxiation rather
than drowning. Genesis 19:24-25 sums up
the account like this:
“Then the Lord rained on Sodom and
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and He overthrew those
cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what
grew on the ground.”
Now I
want to do just a little bit more of research on where these people came from,
and once I quote some Scripture then I think you will know what I am talking
about. This starts after Noah and his
family were out of the Ark and so we begin reading in Genesis 9:20 “then
Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and
laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness
of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see
their father’s nakedness. 24 when Noah
awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. 24 So he said, “Cursed be Cannan; A servant
of servants, He shall be to his brothers.”
26 He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan
be his servant. 27 “May God enlarge
Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
28
Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred
and fifty years and he died.”
I can kind of remember from studying this in the past that Ham’s descendants
would have been the ones that lived in Sodom and Gomorrah. Japheth’s family were the ones that steeled in
Russia, and Japheth was where the children of Israel came from. In Luke 3:36 we see read “the son of
Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of
Lamech, 37 the son of Methuselah, the
son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of
Cainan, the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.”
I will close this evenings SD with a thought and that thought is that
family background means something. I
remember a quote from a sermon I heard from John MacArthur who talked about two
different family backgrounds, and these were in the United States. One of the families had a lot of criminals in
their line, and the other family had many preachers and many godly men, even a
United States Senator came from this family.
So as I said family background means something, either mostly good or
mostly bad.
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