![]() The first part gives us a view of Lot in the city of Sodom, and the rest of the chapter reveals how much of Sodom was in Lot. Although this chapter is rather long, there are really only two things to note about it. They enter looking like ordinary men, with no wings or other identifying features. Now we pick up the story as the two angels come into the city of Sodom in the evening hours. The two angels that had accompanied the Lord on his visit to Abraham have gone on to accomplish the destruction of the cities and Abraham and the Lord were left alone there for that solemn soliloquy. ![]() When we last looked together at the life of Abraham, we found him moved by the Spirit interceding for Lot in the city up on the side of the valley overlooking the Dead Sea region. That explanation would certainly serve this account in Genesis. Rather than volcanic activity, some scientists have suggested that the cities were destroyed by lightning which set fire to the tar pits that saturated the area. The discovery of ruins lying under the waters of the Dead Sea are felt by many experts to be the submerged remains of these cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the villages that clustered around them in the southern part of the Dead Sea plains. In relatively recent times, science has taken a new interest in the Sodom and Gomorrah. Hollywood has seized upon this theme, and made several films it has all they are looking for. The world has always had a morbid interest in the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The 19th chapter of Genesis is one of the most fascinating in the Word of God, and yet it is a grim and fateful story.
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