Tag Archives: Sodom and Gomorrah

What’s the worst, most despicable sin a person could ever commit? Ancient Israelites could easily answer that.  They had heard over and over the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Lot chose possessions, luxury, and ease, pitching his tent toward Sodom (Genesis 13:10-13), rather than a life of faith near his ...

“All sin is the same. I’m a sinner, so what right do I have to judge someone else?” This statement is commonly heard in our culture by Christians; it’s often in the context of overt sin that society or even a church has decided to ignore or embrace. Under simple ...

The simple answer to what really happened to Lot’s wife is that she turned into a pillar of salt when she disobeyed the angels and looked back on the city of Sodom in its destruction—her city. Lot and his family, including his wife, had enjoyed the luxuries of Sodom. Their ...

A graphic scene unfolds in Genesis 19, in which two angels visit Sodom and are compelled by Lot to stay in his home, rather than spend the night in the town square. At nightfall, all the men in the city surround Lot’s house, demanding to have sex with his two visitors. ...

“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.”  Revelation 1:3 (NKJV) God has a plan.  The events in Revelation are the conclusion to His plan, the part of it that ...