Happy Easter y'all I want to come on
because I was awakened out of my sleep
the other night and I'm sharing it with
y'all and I just thought jotting down
what came to me but I want to tell you I
was going to read about the resurrection
this morning I went got my student life
Bible and it's a student Bible with
notes by Philip Yancey and Tim Stafford
and it's the New Revised Standard
Version so here's what it says, it's a
catastrophe sent from God Sodom a city
that earned destruction should a
catastrophe be I'm sorry should
a catastrophe be read as a punishment
from God do floods famines earthquakes
come because God is angry the Bible
answer is sometimes and sometimes not
In Genesis several catastrophe seemed
to JUST happened they were not a
punishment or a warning though God used
them to advance his plans these included
several famines such as the one that
brought Joseph to power in chapter 41 a
war chapter 14 a rape chapter 34 but a
few catastrophes God took full credit
for like the one at Sodom and Gomorrah
as usual the Bible shows  a
little or no interest in telling us the
scientific facts about the destruction
what is a volcanic eruption the Bible
doesn't say and the area now apparently
at the bottom of the Dead Sea cannot
easily be investigated the Bible stress
not how it happened but why gang-rape
Sodom was a wretched place the whole
town saw the coming of strangers as a
chance for homosexual gang rape sexual
violence was not the town's only problem
Ezekiel 16 and 49 says that Sodom had
pride excessive food and prosperous ease
but not did not aid the poor and needy
God would have let the city stand if
Abraham could have located just ten
righteous people apparently ten such
people did not exist
God's great patience finally ran out
years earlier Abraham had refused to
accept even a well-earned reward from
the government of Sodom 14 21 and 24 he
wanted nothing to do with such a society
but Lot had chosen the path of
prosperity the easy and successful life
on the fertile plain near Sodom. Lot
had become a somebody there, a civic
heavy who made important decisions in
the city gateway he was so entangled
with the light with life in Sodom he
hesitated to leave until it was nearly
too late.  when Sodom went up in smoke his
hard earned importance disappeared, too - the
shock was too great for him unable to
start over he ended up in a cave too
drunk to know that his two daughters
were having sex with him he is the
perfect example of a man who excessively
tangled in a corrupt system cannot bear
to leave it behind.  Jesus did not let his
followers think of Sodom simply as those
terrible people he warned them that God
would be even harder on those who saw
Jesus's miracles but ignored them
Matthew 11 and 24 God's patience has a
limit and YA'LL THIS,  this left me with
my mouth wide open this morning and the
life question is are there any
catastrophes of our
time punishments from God and how would
you know and it says here have you
anyone else here sons-in-law sons
daughters or anyone you have in a city
bring them out of the place for we are
about to destroy this place that's 19 12
and 13 and so, ya'll,
um I'm gonna bring up that question
again but I just wanted to share that
with ya'll and I know when I read it I was
like Lord the coronavirus and then that
and then what I got that woke me out of my sleep the other night I heard
that's why I've got to share it with you
and I'm gonna come right back I'm gonna
read this last pack this last thing here
and tell you what I came up with I'll be
back
