seekeroftruth
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Genesis 19:1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Here's a link to the commentary. Of course I don't agree with some of what Guzik has written.Please look at verse 5. It's a weird little verse.... it doesn't really roll off the lips. "Bring them out so we can have sex with them."
People are always complaining about "translations" of the Bible. I told you before about the preacher in Florida who had a bonfire one Sunday morning and burned every Bible in the church that was not King James. He claimed the different translations were ruining the Gospel. I'm about to show one more place where translation may have really screwed up things. It's found in verse 5... I don't think they knew how to translate the word "f&ck".
"Bring them out so we can screw with them!" "Bring them out so we can frick them up!"
Yes... I know, it was Lot's responsibility to protect his visitors. I get that. This is before the Ten Commandments and all the laws that will be written during and after the Exodus and Moses. This was quite a testament to the "righteousness" of Lot.
It has always bugged me, that Lot would offer his two virgin daughters to raging queers! What sense does that make? If he was afraid of queers, why not offer himself up. After all, ... doesn't that seem a little smarter. You don't offer a cup of salt to someone demanding a cup of water. It has always seemed like such a stupid thing to offer them female if he knew they craved male.
They have Westerns about the ahole scenario... not the gay scenario.... the town has been overtaken by a rich mean ahole.... He and his loyalists [the "yes boss" guys] don't like anyone coming into their town. Strangers may throw off the balance of power. The stranger may meet them in the street, or in the bar, or in the doc's office, or in the bank.... but they make it clear they want his gun and they want to frick him up.... [no, the TV show doesn't use the word f&ck either].
The strangers pulled Lot back into the house. I think they knew Lot's offer was useless. Virgins... that would entice a queer! That's why I can now question the translation.
OK... the town meanies were struck blind by the strangers. That shows the strangers were more than mere men. Then again... maybe they had a little mase in their cloaks.
Lot tried to save his sons-in-law... They laughed at Lot.
Then the strangers rained burning sulfur on Sodom and the neighboring town of Gomorrah. Everything and everyone in the plain where Lot had taken his possessions after Lot and Abraham left Egypt was destroyed. Even Lot's wife was caught. She looked back [Verse 26] and she was caught in the sulfur.... and when covered, became a hardened pillar of stinking sulfur salt.
It says Abraham looked out from his spot on the other side of the valley... and he saw smoke rising.
I googled "what weapon uses sulfur" and everything that came up called it "chemical warfare" and also categorized sulfur as a "weapon of mass destruction".
I would say the strangers turned the tables on the aholes in Sodom.
I would say the strangers fricked them up!
This is the story of Sodom.
