Listen to Genesis 19 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

Genesis 19 starts with the account of how Sodom was destroyed, and ends with the origin story of two national groups, the Moabites and the Ammonites. Both of these are stories which leave us shaking our heads for different reasons, but at the same time they do provide us with historical background to things to come in the Bible, and spiritual lessons as well.

Sodom is destroyed because its sin is grievous and in its destruction God is glorified. He did what was right and demonstrated justice, which will one day come to all people. The real issue at Sodom not homosexuality although that was probably a big issue too, but its deliberate and cruel inhospitality. Other Jewish accounts give a sense of why there was an outcry against these cities.

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