AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT......(Part 4)

As it was in the Days of Lot……….

By Kenute Curry

(PART 4)

INTO SODOM

The two angels מַלְאָךְ [mal’ak /mal·awk/] arrived at Sodom in the evening and Lot was sitting near the gate. Lot’s fortunes had gone so well that he had become enmeshed in the life of the city as a ruling elder. When Lot saw them he bowed his face down to the ground and invited them into his house to spend the night. The angels told him that they were going to spend the night in the city’s public square, but Lot begged them out of concern to come, in an effort to protect them from the known perversity of the Sodomites, so they complied. He prepared a meal for them and they ate.

Before bedtime the young and old men of Sodom surrounded Lot’s house, and called to Lot, that he would bring the two men out to them, so that they could know them. The word “know” translates in Hebrew as  דָּעָה, יָדַע [ 1A3 yada` /yaw·dah/] which means, in this instance, to know a person carnally or sexually. The men of Sodom were aggressive homosexuals, bent on raping innocent travelers. Under the circumstances, Lot showed great courage by inviting his guests to stay at his house under his protection. The Sodomites had given themselves over to such impurity that they wanted whatever they could get and whatever they hadn’t had (Ephesians 4:18-19).

STUDY GUIDE

1. Where was Lot sitting when the angels arrived in Sodom?

2. Why did Lot beg the angels to come into his house?

3. What did the men of Sodom do before bedtime?

4. What did the men of Sodom ask of Lot?

 

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.