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THE BOOK OF GENESIS
Chapter 19
By J. W. SMITH
The Destruction of Sodom
In this chapter we behold the good
ness and severity of God (Rom. 11:
22)—goodness towards Lot who was
delivered, and severity towards the
Sodomites who were destroyed. The
try of the righteous brings God down
to deliver (Kx. 3: 7, K); the cry of
the wicked brings God down to des¬
troy (18: 20, 21). The visitation of
God’s vengeance upon the wicked
titles of the plain, in its swiftness
and overwhelming power, is a pic
lure of the sudden and unexpected
judgment that will come to this sin¬
ful world at the second appearing of
Jesus 'Christ. ’’As it was in the days
of Lot, even thus shall it be in the
day when the Son of Man is reveal
id” (Luke 17: 28-30); and in 2
Thess. 1: 7-10, we read that “the
Lord Jesus shall he revealed
from heaven with His mighty angels,
n flaming fire taking vengeance on
them that know not God, and obey
rot the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ; who shall he punished with
everlasting destruction from the pres¬
ence of the Lord, and from the glory
. f His power; when He shall come to
be glorified in His saints, and to he
admired in all them that believe In
that day. rl
1. The Two Angel*. V»*. 1-3. The
henVenly beings were two minister¬
ing spirits sent forth by the Angel
<f the Covenant to warn and deliv¬
er Lot. They found him sitting in the
gate of the city, the place of author 1
ty, who, seeing them, rose up and
bowed himself before them. The same
angelic messengers who gladly ac¬
cepted the hospitality of Abraham
had to be constrained to spend the
night with Lot. Hospitality means fel¬
lowship. Lot was worldly and not in
close communion with God.
Angels, according to the teaching
of the Bible, are created beings;
therefore they cannot create. They
are incorporeal; therefore they are
invisible. They are superior to man
in intellectual faculties; therefore
mun is lower than the angels. They
ere neither omnipotent, omniscient,
nor omnipresent; for these are pre¬
rogatives peculiar to God. They wor¬
ship God, carry out His will, and min¬
ister to those who belong to Him.
2. The Wicked Inhabitant*. (V»».
4-11. The Sodomites were guilty of
all the abominable sins on which are
laid the curses of Deut. 27: 15-26.
All the inhabitants, young and old,
(Lot excepted) were completely un¬
der the control of Satan. Every
thought was saturated with impurity;
every imagination was drunk with
iniquity; every tongue was an in¬
strument of cursing; every person
•was a mass of corruption; every
home was a lair of uncleanness; and
♦very city of the plain was a heap
of loathsomeness, ready for the
flames of vengeance.
Every unsaved soul is treasuring
np wrath against the day of wrath.
While the impenitent man mav he
boarding up riches in this world, wrath
is accumulating against him in the
world to come; while his fame may
be soaring high in this life, wrath
is towering against him in the next;
while his social connections may be
widening on this side of the grave,
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wrath i> spreading against him on
other side. Every oath ho utters,
ory lie* that ho tolls, and every
ed stop that ho takes increases
store of wrath. He is now poorer
love and richer in vengeance,
er from Heaven and nearer Hell
he was twenty-four hours ago.
3. The Gracious Deliverance.
12-23. The angels had a
purpose in visiting Sodom; viz.,
save Lot and to destroy the city.
the fire cannot fall from heaven
on the accursed plain until Lot is
a place of safety. In connection
Lot's gracious deliverance we
(a) Warning. V»*. 12, 13.
destroy this place.” Just then it
gan to dawn upon Lot what a
investment he had made in
All his earthly possessions,
ing the accummulation of years,
gether with his wife and some of
children, were to be destroyed,
he was to be left forlorn and
less in his old age. Sodom is still
the world, and numerous Lots
pitching their tents towards it.
(b) Teatimony. V. 14. Lot
the word of the angels, took the
sage to heart, and lost no time
warning the members of his
hold. It is a great privilege to be
nected with the righteous, even
unworthy sons-in-law were not
cluded from the household
ant. Seeing no sign of
destruction, they concluded the
man’s head was a little
for “he seemed to them as one
mocked.” Though they were on
verge of doom, they continued
treat his testimony with
and his warning with lightness
they were engulfed in the flames
despatched their vile spirits to
al perdition. There are many
today who are doing the same thing.
(c) Urgency. Vs*. 15-17. “The an
gels hastened Lot.” Lot, whose
was commendable, and who
the solemn warning to others,
disposed to linger in the doomed city,
which shows that he was over
about the things that are
when his life was in danger.
strong, but loving, hands, they
led out of the city, commanded
escape to the mountain, and not tar
ry in all the plain, neither look
hind. Though Lot believed the mes¬
sage of the angels, he would have
perished in the flames had he been
left to himself.
“E’en Lot himself could lingering
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When vengeance was in view;
Twas mercy plucked him by the hand
Or he had perished too.”
(d) Prayer. V«*. 18-21. “Oh, let
me escape thither!” Lot’s faith was
mingled with fear. He thought he
would be safer in the little city
chosen by himself than in the moun¬
tain selected for him by God. How¬
ever, he acted wisely in pouring out
his doubts and fears before the Lord,
Who granted him his request, though
it contained much infirmity, and for
his sake spared the city of Zoar.
(e) Security. V*. 22. “I cannot do
anything till thou come thither ” The
salvation of Lot, though at times not
a close walker with God, was secure.
I cannot see that the Scripture, when
rightly divided, teaches by example
or parable, or in any other way, that
the man who is regenerated by the
Holy Ghost can be lost. 'The repeti¬
tion of regeneration is not, as far as
I know, found in the Bible.
4. The Complete Destruction. Vs*.
24-26. “The Lord overthrew those
cities.” The destruction was so com¬
plete that all the homes, beauty, and
fertility of the plain were consumed,
and the land itself buried under the
waters of the Jordan; while Lot's
wife who lingered behind and looked
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the nitro-sulphureous matter forming
a sheet about her body and congeal¬
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peared like a pillar of salt.
“The warning was spoken; the right¬
eous hud gone.
And the proud ones of Sodom were
feasting alone.
Hark the growl of the thunder, the
quaking of the earth!
Woe, woe, to the worship, and woe
to the mirth!
“The black sky has opened,—there’s
flame in the air,—
The red arm of vengeance is lifted
and bare.
For the fierce flames went lightly
o’er palace and bower,
lJke the red tongues of demons to
blast and devour. * •
What led the Sodomites into such
depth of degradation? They had
wealth in abundance, which produced
idleness, pride ,and haughtiness, rr-
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their sudden destruction. Eze. 16:
49, 50. It cannot be emphasized too
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5. The Sympathetic Intercetior.
V»*. 27-29. Abraham was anxious
about the city, and especially Lot.
He got up eariy in the morning and
looked toward the land of the plain,
and saw that the fertile, smiling val¬
ley was utterly destroyed arid thai
the smoke of the country went up
like the smoke of a furnace. The sign-,
was awful: it was a type of the lake
that burneth with fire and brimstone
into which all those who neglect God's
great salvation will be cast to be tor¬
mented forever and ever.
6. The Solitary Habitation. Vs*. 30-
38. “He dwelt in a cave he and his
two daughters.” Prof. Ellsworth
Huntingdon, of the Yale Expedition
to Palestine, reports that they found,
"not far from Hoar, a cave 20 feet
long by 15 feet wide, carefully hew¬
ed out of limestone rock near a
spring.’’ It is probable this was the
cave in which Lot dwelt. While in the
place of solitude he, who kept sober
in Sodom, got drunk and brought
dishonor upon himself and children.
Lot s soul was saved, but his life was
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