AS IN WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT.....(Part 8)

As it was in the Days of Lot……….

By Kenute Curry

(PART 8)

 

DESTRUCTION OF SODOM

 

When Lot and his family entered Zoar, the sun had already risen. The LORD then sent a rain of brimstone גָּפְרִית [gophriyth /gof·reeth/]   and fire אֵשׁ [’esh /aysh/]   out of the sky and destroyed those cities because of their wickedness. He also destroyed the Jordan Valley and everything that grew on the ground. Concerning this destruction observe:

 

1. God was the immediate author of it. It was destruction from the Almighty: “Then the Lord rained” (v.24). Note: He that is the Savior will be the destroyer of those that reject His salvation.

2. It was a strange punishment. Never was the like before or since. Hell was rained from heaven upon them - “Brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens” (v. 24). Brimstone was scattered upon their environment, and then the fire soon attached itself upon them.

3. It was a judgment that laid all waste. “He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground (v.25).  It was a complete and irreparable ruin.

4. It was a punishment that answered to their sin. Burning lusts against nature were justly punished with this supernatural burning. Those that went after strange flesh were destroyed by strange fire (Jude 7).

5. It was designed for a standing revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners in all ages. It is typical of the vengeance of eternal fire (Jude 7), and the ruin of all that live ungodly (2 Peter 2:6), especially those that despise the gospel (Matthew 10:15). It is a reference to this destruction that the place of the lost is often represented by a lake that burns, as Sodom did, with fire and brimstone. Let us learn from it.

STUDY GUIDE

 

1. How did the LORD destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

2. What else did He destroy along with those cities?

3. What was this judgment designed for?

 

 

© 2013 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.

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