A Lot Of Thought
About Lot
10/3/2006
By Trevor Davis
Lot was a man of
God—he was righteous. In a certain point and time in history
the scripture declares that God Almighty determined to bring
utter destruction upon specific cities because of their
grotesque evil lifestyle, pride, idleness and unthankful
appreciation for their bounty.
It is written in
the book of Genesis that this relative of the father of faith
Abraham was delivered by God’s angels just prior to the sudden
rain of fire and brimstone that eradicated all living in Sodom
and Gomorrah.
This is an
important story for us today because Jesus Himself referred to
Lot as an example of the times of His return and the end of the
age.
It is important
for people to realize that God does judge. After time passes
and God’s pleas to the masses to turn from their wicked ways are
unheeded the Living God stands up and makes His fury known.
Scripture records
how God at various times dealt with wickedness through drastic
measures such as the flood of the earth in Noah’s days, the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot’s days, the judgment of
Israel and Judah throughout biblical history and so on.
It is vital to understand that
God does make a distinction between those who love Him from
those who don’t. God makes a difference between those who serve
Him and those who serve their own selves in wickedness.
To reject the enduring plea of
God to repent always ends in absolute certain woe. Every
time. God calls to the masses. He sends His servants to voice
His call. He gives dreams and visions that speak to the inner
heart of humanity. He deals, He pleads, He calls—yet, too often
His voice is rejected and denied.
This is why I
speak of this message about Lot. Because, the time has come in
our day similar to the day of Lot when God Almighty has
determined to put an end to His enemies and fulfill the desire
of His heart that brings vengeance on those who have shamed and
despised Him. Look out.
The LORD God
Almighty is dressed in battle array seeking for prey those who
hate Him. Woe. These are dark and dismal days as the LORD goes
forth making war and shaking all things that can be shaken. Can
you hear the voice of the LORD? Can you sense His agreement
with these words? What will you do?
This is the hour
to call upon the LORD and humble your soul before His glorious
throne. For the LORD Himself does arise to battle. Who will
not fear Him when His judgments are made manifest?
This is a sober
message. The line has been crossed when repentance will not be
accepted for masses of people as a whole. God is judging
nations. This is the hour for the individual—individuals, by
themselves, must call upon the LORD in order to be saved and
escape coming judgment.
In the past,
God had given His grace over whole nations and peoples blessing
them with much.
God had given grace and
goodness with the hope that He would be acknowledged in
repentance. (Romans 2:4)
But now is the
time of judgment as we approach the soon coming of Jesus
Christ.
In the days that
the LORD judged the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, an individual
man named Lot found grace with God. A similar kind of grace
that Noah enjoyed being spared as God destroyed perpetually from
the face of the earth all living that were outside the ark.
So, as I speak
today of Lot, may you as an individual realize your need and
precarious position as you live in lands that are marked for
catastrophic destruction from God. Will God give you the grace
to be hidden in His presence? Will God give you the grace to
repent?
Shall you
find favor with Him to be led out of harms’ way? You need to go
to Him and find out. Make sure you are right with ‘Him that
speaks from Heaven’ and dwells in the light that is
unapproachable. This message should make you shake. Why? A
true awareness of the Living God should make you tremble.
As it is written,
“The LORD reigneth; let the
people tremble: he sitteth between the Cherubims; let the
earth be moved. The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above
all the people.”
(Psalms 91:1-2)
As we stand in
this current era, we stand at the pivotal point in history that
God the Almighty is making bare His Holy arm to reveal His might
in judgment. I write this way to tell you the truth and not to
appease you with charm or false sentiment of words to no avail.
I am telling you the truth that judgment of God is already
underway.
It is here.
It has arrived. Have you not noticed the record-breaking
earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat, cold, and
solar flares? Just to name a few of the manifested judgments in
the earth…What about the callous religious systems of
Christianity that are in apostasy? They have all the trappings
and props but deny the basic truths of the fear of the LORD.
The erring
religious people look good from the outside but are dead and
defiled within just as Jesus has described a fallen religious
world in His day. Do you notice the eroding of God-given
liberties and laws that were the foundation of the United States
of America? Can you properly discern the prideful leaders with
secret agendas ruling as tyrants in the name of safety? Many
political leaders that are entrusted to govern rule by private
advantages for secret gain. And, also far too often are driven
by woeful lusts like homosexual pedophilia, prostitution and
pornography.
It is time to
acknowledge the facts. The grace for space to repent for whole
nations and peoples is past. God is judging. He is staging
systematic snares of judgment. These judgments will be fierce
and astounding with great and far reaching effects that ripple
throughout the world. The world will stop and at times and hold
their hands over their mouths in bewilderment at the
catastrophic measures that come suddenly. The sad part is
though God shows His feelings of hot displeasure through such
displays of choler the majority will harden their hearts and
stiffen their necks against God. What a foolish thing to do.
Will a man strive against His Maker and succeed?
Lot And The Angels
Lot lived in Sodom. His wife,
daughters and sons-in-law lived, worked and played in this
wicked city in the same manner that some of us live in wicked
cities. They had neighbors and the children played with each
other. Lot and his family waved in greetings with their
neighbors in the morning just as commonly as we do in our
neighborhoods. God sent angels to destroy both Sodom and
Gomorrah but first they were to take Lot and his family out of
the city. Genesis 19 recounts the story how the men of the city
came to the door to ask Lot if they could “know” the men (the
angels). How perverted.
The depravity of the city
was such that the men desired to defile the holy angels of the
heavenly God in such a gross debauchery form of fornication.
Lot, being so vexed by the tenacious threat of the sexual
pirates offered his two virgin daughters instead, oddly enough,
in order to fend off the sex predators.
The scripture
tells us that the two angels that had been sent by God to
destroy the city were inside the house while the wicked lustful
men panted threats outside the house with Lot. The men of the
city were insisting on raping the angels and were going to break
down the door just prior to the angels blinding all the men
outside with blindness and pulling Lot inside the house--
closing the door behind him. The angels repeated strong demands
for Lot to quickly get out of the city for the angels were there
to bring destruction. Lot was urged to get his wife, sons and
daughters and leave the city.
When Lot went and told his
sons-in-law that God was going to destroy the city they though
he was joking and didn’t take him seriously. The next day the
angels urged Lot again to gather his wife and daughters and flee
the city in order not to be ‘cut off with the iniquity of the
city’. Lot “lingered” and was hesitant so the angels grabbed
the hands of Lot, his wife, and daughters and
‘brought them out and set them
outside the city’.
Now that Lot was outside the city that was about to be destroyed
the angels still commanded Lot to ‘flee
for your life,
don’t look back
and don’t remain in
the plain.
Go to the mountains!
Lest you be consumed!’
(Note and consider)
Lot then reasoned
with the angels where he would go. Lot was afraid of dieing in
the mountains and asked if he could go to a small city nearby.
(Note and consider) The angel conceded to Lot’s request and
that city he desired to go was named Zoar and was spared the
destruction of the angels.
The angels commanded Lot again
to ‘hurry and escape
there, for I cannot do any thing until you arrive there.’
The scripture declares that as Lot entered the city of Zoar, the
sun was dawning and the LORD “rained
upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD of
heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and
all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.”
This is drastic
action. But it was warranted and proper. God is righteous. He
is always right. What He has done in the past He will do again
in the future. He is the same and He does not change. This is
why the wise fear the LORD. This is the beginning of wisdom.
Fear the LORD. Consider the drastic results of Lot’s wife’s
disobedience regarding not looking back to the city they were
departing. She became a pillar of salt. Jesus even said,
“Remember Lot’s wife.”
This is important
to ponder. As God judges, and if you are allowed to flee, let
not your heart of emotions look back to that which God is
judging. Even though you may have good memories and
experiences, God is saying we are not to look back to that which
He now judges. Remember Lot’s wife! Understand that God’s
judgments are holy and true. They are due. They are here.
As the fire and brimstone fell
from the sky pummeling and igniting ablaze the cities of Sodom,
Gomorrah, the plains and the other cities nearby the scripture
says that Abraham, Lot’s uncle, looked from a ‘distance
at Sodom and Gomorrah and saw the smoke of the country smoking
as a furnace…’
It is recorded
that Lot later feared to live in Zoar and departed to the
mountains to live in a cave.
Please, this
message is written for you to ponder many things. Your
relationship and standing with God. To sense the soon impending
reality of God’s fierce judgments. To prompt you to humble your
soul and bow toward the LORD in respectful admiration. Let Him
cleanse you from that which He detests.
Consider
Jesus the sacrifice for your sins and allow God to cleanse you
as you confess your sins before His throne. Quickly, make
haste, run to the LORD and get right with Him. Ponder the story
of Lot for it speaks of the end-times that Jesus has revealed
would come. The future of this age is written out in the
scripture. Read for yourself the itemized list of the signs of
the coming of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 10; Matthew 24; Mark 13;
Luke 17; Luke 21)
Understand this:
The first time Jesus came was
to save sinners.
The second time He comes is to
judge sinners.
The judgment has
begun. Will you yield to the LORD’s Spirit as He draws you into
His presence? Will you accept the showering cleansing blood of
Jesus Christ? Or, will you deny the Lord that bought you and
choose rather the showering of vehement fire upon your head?
I write this
message about Lot today for you. Do you see that God spared
righteous Lot from the fiery destruction but yet Lot was without
wife, home, job and lands? There is a cost in serving the LORD
and receiving entrance into the Kingdom of God. For it is
written—“With much tribulation does one enter the Kingdom of
God.” But the rewards are awesome and eternal. Forever true as
it is written in scripture.
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Thoughts of
Lot:
Remember and
consider these points:
Lot was
resistant to leave. (Genesis 19)
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Even though he
knew God was going to judge the cities in which he lived—
He was slow to go.
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His family
(sons-in-law) thought he was joking or not serious.
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*The angels
either escorted him and his family physically out of the
city or they were literally transported OUT OF THE LAND.
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After his
deliverance, Lot was without a wife.
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Lot was
without a home, job or land.
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The sad part,
the two daughters he had remaining did foolish and wickedly
before the LORD. They created two evil nations by their
wicked actions. Lot had to live with that the rest of his
life.
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So, that is a hard
position to be in.
Wifeless,
homeless, jobless and so on. But at least he was alive.
(This is written for us.)
*(The LORD is showing me that
some of His people think that God will do the same for them and
are not moving. The LORD is telling us that we are not to tempt
the LORD. Thinking
presumptuously
that God will send angels to do this or that was the same
temptation satan used with Jesus...The angels told Lot...you
have to get out or you will be destroyed.
The same thing is taught in
Revelation about ‘coming out of Babylon’
lest you partake of her plagues...
Jeremiah 50:28
says those fleeing Babylon are voicing God's vengeance! (And
verse 2)
Jeremiah 51 says
come out and don't ‘get
cut off by her iniquity’.
It also shows that those fleeing desired Babylon's healing.
We need to look at
this because Jesus has told us specifically that as it was with
Lot...normal life etc, so shall it be in the days of the son of
man. (Luke 17:26-37)
Trevor Davis
www.soundingthealarm.com
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