Season 4 Episode 8 – Genesis 19: It’s Raining Sulfur and Fire!!

Coming Up!! - 0:00

Intro!! - 1:22

Jasmine’s Tea!! - 3:45

Aight So Boom!! - 13:50

Read Genesis 19 1-3 - 18:42

• Two angels arrive at Sodom in the evening (aliens to the city of Sodom)

• Lot was sitting at the gate

• Rose to meet them

• Bowed himself to them (face to the earth)

• Asked that the angels come to his house

• The angels refused the hospitality (really seems like something else)

• Lot urges them and they stay

• Lot made a feast

• Baked Unleavened Bread

• They ate

Read Genesis 19 4-11 - 29:59

• Before they could get to sleep

• Men of the city of Sodom Come to Lot’s house

• All of them (Young and Old)

• All the people to the last man

• Surrounded the house

• They know that there are “me” at Lot’s house

• Where are they

• Demand they be brought out to them

• That they may “know them” - what in the blazes, do they do this to all guests

• Lot tries to get them to move on (not good enough compared to Abraham, in better standing than the men of Sodom)

• Implores them not to act wickedly (pointing back to their sin and the outcry against them

• Calls them brothers (interesting choice of words) - Did Lot try to turn everyone away?

• Offers his virgin daughters - Wait what!!!

• They are under my roof, so I am responsible for them

• Crowd turns on Lot

• Stand Back

• You are not even from here, now you want to judge us (wicked comment?)

• We are going to mess you up more

• The Angels save Lot

• Pull him back in the house

• Struck blindness on all those at the entrance

• They wore themselves out groping for the door

Read Genesis 19 12-14 - 1:00:06

• The Angels speak to Lot about anyone else here he has (these are angels who are not all knowing)

• Goes through family members

• Goes through anyone else in the city

• Daughters were to marry some men there - told them to leave but they thought he was being funny (like people did Noah?)

• We are about to destroy this place

• The outcry is great

• The LORD has sent us to destroy it

Read Genesis 19 15-22 - 1:15:08

• Morning comes along

• Angels urges Lot to leave with his wife and daughters

• If they don’t then they will be swept away with the city

• Lot lingers (Why tho?)

• They seized them (like by force)

• Brought him out 

• Set him outside the city

• Men (Angels) warn them as they leave

• Escape for your life

• Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley

• Lot just go!

• No not to the hills

• You have shown me favor

• You have shown me a great kindness

• Going to the hills the disaster will overtake me

• Let me go to this little city

• Permission granted

• Will not overthrow the city you are talking about

• Get there quickly can’t do anything until you arrive

• The little city is Zoar

Read Genesis 19 23-29 - 1:21:35

• Lot and his family got to Zoar the next day

• The LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah

• Sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven

• He overthrew

• The cities

• The Valley

• All the inhabitants of the cities

• What grew on the ground

• Lot’s wife (when did he get married

• She was behind him

• She looked back

• She became a pillar of salt

• Abraham went to check it out

• Back to the discussion place with the LORD

• Looked down on to where Sodom and Gomorrah was

• Smoke like a furnace

• The recap

• God destroyed the cities

• God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out

Read Genesis 19 30-38 - 1:34:53

• Lot went and lived in the hills (where the men were pointing them initially)

• Was afraid to live in Zoar

• Lived in a cave with his daughters (marriageable daughters)

• The daughters hatched a plan

• Get dad drunk

• Lay with him 

• Have his children (Comparable to Tamar?)

• The children became the Moabites and the Ammonites

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