Tuesday, January 10, 2017

After Sarah died, Abraham married a third wife.  Keturah--all we know about her is her name.  She gave Abraham 6 more sons.  However, when Abraham died, he left all he had to Sarah's son Isaac.  The son of promise.

The Bible gives us the details of people who served and pleased God, but it also gives us details of people who didn't.  Such as Lot's wife and daughters--who are not given names.

Lot was Haran's son.  Haran (Abraham's brother) had died before they left their homeland, so Abraham took Lot with him to the new land.  And he gave Lot the best grazing land.  But Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom where "...the men were exceedingly wicked and sinners before the Lord."  You have to wonder why Lot chose to move his family into such an evil place.  It turns out to be the family's undoing.  His choice of a place to live and raise his children was disastrous.

The city was so evil that God decided to destroy it--and everyone in it.  Two angels warned Lot to take his wife, daughters, and both of their fiancés, and get out.  (The fiancés of his daughters decided not to go with them.)

But Lot was hesitant, so the angels took hold of the four of them and took them out of the city--and told them, "Escape for your life; and don't look behind you."  And we all remember what happened.  When the cities burned with fire and brimstone from heaven (sounds like a volcano hit it), Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.  Just like a woman.  Curiosity killed the cat?

And Lot's daughters?  Well, having been raised in such an evil place must have compromised their sense of morality because they got their father drunk, and when he passed out, they both raped him so that they could have children and their blood line wouldn't die out.

Rape, incest, sodomy, etc., etc.  The Bible has it all.  And lets us in on the consequences of sin.  God won't put up with it.  Like the old time preacher Billy Sunday used to day, "Payday, someday."


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