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1 2 2/27/20 A. The introduction of Sodom and Gamorrah is to compare them to God’s judgment that fell on Perverted Sodom And Gomorrah the angels in verse six, “as Sodom and Jude 1:7 Gomorrah”. vs. 7a 1. The name Sodom “Sodoma”, means The three illustrations Jude used have the overarching burning. theme of God’s judgment of past apostates and the sin a. The city of Sodom is mentioned 48 times of unbelief. in the Bible. 1. Some in the nation of Israel apostatized by unbelief 1) Thirty-eight times in the Old to possess the land. Testament. 2. Some of the angels in heaven apostatized by 2) Ten times in the New Testament, once rebelling against God and being faithful. “Sodoma”. Rom. 9:29 3. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities b. Sodom was in the fertile plain of Jordan around them disbelieved the warning about God’s on the Southern end of the Dead Sea. destruction for their sinful living, being no different 1) From the area of Bethel where Abram than apostates. had pitched his tent we are told, “And * “as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the them in a similar manner to these, having given plain of Jordan, that it was well themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after watered everywhere (before the strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the LORD destroyed Sodom and vengeance of eternal fire.” Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you The third illustration of the is about Sodom, go toward Zoar. Then Lot chose for Gomorrah, the cities around them characterized by himself all the plain of Jordan, and three things. Jude 1:7 Lot journeyed east. And they I. The comparison of their judgment. separated from each other.” Gen. II. The comparison of their sin. 13:10-11 III. The comparison of their castigation. 2) Lot favored the urban city life, “Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, I. The comparison of their judgment. vs. 7a and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain 3 4 and pitched his tent even as far as 3) Both Sodom and Gomorrah fell under Sodom.” Gen. 13:12 God’s Divine judgement, “Then the 3) The four kings from the region of LORD rained brimstone and fire on Babylon came down from the area of Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Damascus on the east side of the LORD out of the heavens.” Gen. Jordan as far as the Dead Sea to make 19:24 war against the five kings of the five 4) No coincidence the meaning of the cities in the Jordan plain for rebelling, two cities combined mean “burning not paying tribute in the 13th year of submersion”. their servitude to Chedorlaomer, meeting in the Valley of Siddim, B. The introduction of three other cities are also to where there was much asphalt, near compare them to God’s judgment that fell on Sodom. Gen. 14:1-10 the angels in verse six, “and the cities around 2. The city of Gomorrah means submersion. them”. vs. 7b a. The city of Gomorrah is mentioned 1. The two of cities are mentioned by name, twenty-four times in the Bible. “And the border of the Canaanites was from 1) Nineteen times it appears in the Old Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Testament. Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, 2) Five times in the New Testament. Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Matt. 10:15; Mk. 6:11: Rom. 9:29; Lasha.” Gen. 10:19 2Pet. 2:6; Jude 1:7 a. Admah “Admah”, meand red earth. b. Gomorrah was also located in the fertile * Admah appears five times in the Old plain of Jordan on the Southern end of Testament. Gen. 10:19; 14:2, 8; Deut. the Dead Sea. Gen. 13:10 29:23; Hos. 11:8 1) Every time Gomorrah is mentioned in b. Zeboiim “Ts@bo’ iym”, means gazelles. the Old Testament, Sodom is * Zeboiim is never mentioned in the New mentioned with her, nineteen times. Testament. 2) Every time Gomorrah is mentioned in c. Everyone knows about Sodom and the New Testament, Sodom is Gomorrah for falling under God’s Divine mentioned with her. judgment, but not Adman and Zeboiim. 5 6 1) The prophet Hosea used this important mountains where the angels told him detail speaking for God and His to flee, fearing he would die. Gen. promise to never forget the northern 19:19-21 Kingdom in their captivity to 2) The angels told Lot, “Hurry, escape Assyrian and their return from there. For I cannot do anything until Babylon, “How can I give you up, you arrive there.” Therefore the name Ephraim? How can I hand you over, of the city was called Zoar.” Gen. Israel? How can I make you like 19:24 Admah? How can I set you like 3) The confirmation of the city of Zoar Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; being spared, “The sun had risen upon My sympathy is stirred.” Hos. 11:8 the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then 2) The point is clear, ask anyone about the LORD rained brimstone and fire Admah and Zeboiim, they will on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the respond, “who”, these two cities are LORD out of the heavens. So He not remembered, but forgotten! overthrew those cities, all the plain, 2. The last city is also mentioned by name, all the inhabitants of the cities, and Zoar. what grew on the ground.” Gen. a. The city Zoar “Tso’ ar”, means 19:23-25 insignificant, perhaps being very small? 1) Zoar appears ten times in the Old Illustration Testament. Gen. 13:10; 14:2, 8; Isaiah said, “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I 19:22, 23, 30; Deut. 34:2; Is. 15:5; am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of Jer. 48:4, 34 a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the 2) The king of Bela was also Zoar. Gen. King, The LORD of hosts.” God is the epitome of 14:2, 8 holiness, the heavens are not pure in His eyes. Is. 6:5; b. The city of Zoar is the only one of the Job 15:15b five cities that was spared from God’s Divine judgment. Application 1) The sparing of the overthrow of the 1. The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, sexual city of Zoar was due to the request of promiscuity, in particular homosexuality, had never Lot to flee to Zoar instead of the 7 8 been questioned till recent with the pro-homosexual They spoke to the master of the house, the old acceptance in America and the world. man, saying, “Bring out the man who came to a. The city of Sodom is mentioned twice as much your house, that we may know him carnally!” as Gomorrah in both Old and New Testament Jud. 19:22 an example of the God’s judmgnet for their sin. d. “And there were also perverted persons in the b. The sin of Sodom was and is the practice of land. They did according to all the men having sex with men callled “sodomy”, the abominations of the nations which the LORD most unnatural way contrary to God’s design had cast out before the children of Israel.” and nature for a man and a woman. 1Kings 14:24 c. The men of Sodom knowing the two angels e. “For this reason God gave them up to vile were in Lot’s house asked for the angles. passions. For even their women exchanged the 1) “And they called to Lot and said to him, natural use for what is against nature. Likewise “Where are the men who came to you also the men, leaving the natural use of the tonight? Bring them out to us that we may woman, burned in their lust for one another, know them carnally.” Gen. 19:5 men with men committing what is shameful, 2) To deny that in fact the men could and would and receiving in themselves the penalty of their have had sex with the angels by sodomy is error which was due.” Rom. 1:26-27 ludicrous. 2. The sin of sodomites is distinct from 2. Homosexuals and pro-homosexual individuals are homosexuality. constantly saying the Bible does not condemn a. Sodomites in the Bible were sacred, homosexuality or that the words uses do not refer to consecrated male prostitutes to the service of homosexuality, let me give you a few to refute the lie. Astarte or Venus. Duet. 23:17; 1Kings 14:24; a. “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. 15:12; 22:46; 2Kings 23:7 It is an abomination.” Lev. 18:22 b. A Sodomits is not always homosexual, b. “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a sometimes called a “dog” or “perverted woman, both of them have committed an persons”. abomination. They shall surely be put to death. 1) “Do you not know that the unrighteous will Their blood shall be upon them.” Lev. 20:13 not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be c. “As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, certain men of the city, perverted men, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor surrounded the house and beat on the door. sodomites.” 1Cor.
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