City of Gibeah Event, and

Created Date: 22-Jul-2019
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Sections

1 City of Gibeah Event that is Parallel to Sodom and Gomorra's Event
2 Preface and Understanding God's Laws on Same Gender Sexual Relationships with "Being Given Over to the Desire"
3 What was the Sin of Sodom and Gomorra?
4 Sodom, Gomorrah and Cities about them had Nephilim
5 Location of Sodom and Gomorra
6 The Fate of Sodom and Gomorra
7 Something Amazing Overlooked?
8 God's City Jerusalem becomes like Sodom and Gomorra

There are two incidents in the scriptures where there was an attempt by men to forcibly have sexual relations with one or two male guests of a home.  The two incidents were symptoms of far worse sinful problems against God and people. 

The first is the well-known Sodom and Gomorra event, and the second is lesser known city of Gibeah event.  These are some of the commonalities of the two events:

  1. The men were using force to enter a home, and they announced their intentions to have forced violent sexual interaction. 
  2. The participants were so brazen (bold without shame) which indicates they were not concerned about others seeing what they were doing.
  3. From the inference in the scriptures, both incident indicates the cities provided protection, were complacent, and apathetic.
  4. God saw the cities as not having righteousness at a very depraved level, that was more than sexual, with evidence in many, many areas.
  5. The two events have the same sinful areas continuing throughout history.

City of Gibeah Event that is Parallel to Sodom and Gomorra's Event

The city of Gibeah event occurred in the times of Judges, and the city was one city of many cities that were part of an area of inhabitants from the Tribe of Benjamin.  The scriptural passage of Judges chapter 20 describes "worthless men" that will, with force, rape a guest of a home.  The guest was a Levite man travelling with his concubine wife and servant.

The Levite man was a guest of a owner of a home, along with wife and servant.  The owner of the home, by the custom of "sacred duty", was to protect a guest to the best of their abilities even over the wellbeing of their own home and family.  See many internet websites on the ancient custom.   The "worthless men" would have known about the custom, as did the men in the Sodom and Gomorra event. 

In the Gibeah event, the men eventually abducted the Levite man's wife concubine after initially wanting the Levite man for sexual relations.  There are some readers, including this author, of this scriptural passage that would ask:

We are unfortunately not given the full dialogue and events of the full confrontation, and it can be inferred by verse 24 that the worthless men decided eventually they wanted the woman, and possibly the men at the home were told that everyone at the home would be murdered if there was any resistance.  This incident, that may have been happening to all visitors of cities of Benjamin, was placed in the scriptures for many reasons which God had us to understand and learn from the far ranging consequences.

The Levite's wife concubine was so horribly abused physically and sexually that the action caused her death shortly after getting released in the morning at dawn.  There is not enough words to fully and fairly describe the repugnant, satanic, and gross actions of the worthless men, the people of the city of Gibeah to allow it, and most importantly the torture felt by the Levite's concubine wife!

Judges 20:22-26

We find out shortly the worthless men had murdered the woman.

 22 While they were celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless men, surrounded the house, pushing one another at the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who entered your house that we may have relations with him.” 23 Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, please do not act so wickedly. Since this man has come into my house, do not commit this vile sin. 24 Here is my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine. Please let me bring them out, then rape them and do to them whatever you wish. But do not commit this act of vile sin against this man.” 25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her outside to them; and they raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn. 26 As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight.

The act of the worthless men ended up causing a civil war in the nation of Israel because the Levite sent messages to all the other tribes of the event for justice to prevail against all that were involved in the murder.  The action taken by the Levite man was to cut his concubine wife into pieces and sent to the other Tribes of Israel to show the barbarity.  This action reflected:

When the other tribes came to Gibeah, the people of the city would not relinquish the "worthless men".   God then instructs several actions that had the other tribes of the nation of Israel to go to war and nearly eliminated the entire tribe of Benjamin.  Each action from the other tribes was prayerfully confirmed over many days.  There was only minimal causalities for the other tribes of Israel. 

At the end of this civil war, the nearly wiped out tribe of Benjamin had to have additional virgin women from the other Tribes come and become wives so that there would be offspring for the tribe of Benjamin to be replenished as directed by God.

There are many parallels of the Sodom and Gomorra event with Gibeah event in the scriptures.  The  "worthless men" from Gibeah and other cities of the Benjamites caused a heinous consequence of suffering and death.   

Notice the similarities and differences with the City of Gibeah (CoG) Incident and Sodom and Gomorah (SaG) incident:

  1. Both CoG and SaG had men trying to obtain sexual intercourse with the same gender, where the CoG men were only showing a preference that was not limited.
  2. The CoG, after initially wanting the Levite, abducted the Levite guest's concubine wife with brutal physical raping and sexual torture causing her death.
  3. Both the owners of the homes in the CoG and SaG incidents offered their own daughters first as part of Sacred Duty ancient custom.
  4. As detailed in the next sections, the SaG people were very similar to the CoG people.  The people SaG did not even have ten righteous people in the their two major cities of SaG and surrounding towns.
  5. The disturbing realization is the CoG people were one of the tribes of Israel that should have had fear of God and acted with moral righteousness.
  6. God was consulted continuously for the proper actions
    (a) When the other tribes of Israel went first to bring the "worthless men" to justice,
    (b) What to do when all the cities of the Benjamites protected the worthless men, and
    (b) When going to war against all the Benjamite cities over several days.
  7. In the battles that followed, the other tribes of Israel nearly righteously killed the entire tribe of Benjamin.  God's commitment to His Promises made for all the tribes of Israel stopped the full extinction from happening to the tribe of Benjamin as read in the several chapters of the Gibeah's incident.
  8. At the finish of the battles, God has the other tribes of Israel force the tribe of Benjamin into peace with specific directions.  The remnant of men in the Benjamite tribe were given directions to marry virgin women from the other tribes and raise children to have a future for the tribe of Benjamin.
  9. The worthless men were most likely righteously killed in the civil war, and their Judgment from God had all of the lives lost on their sins recorded against them.

As stated above, and additionally in the entirety of this topic, the parallel conclusion of the city of Gibeah with the Sodom and Gomorra is there is not a distinction between the two events.  There was the protection, compliancy, endorsement, and even condoning of evil, and God saw the areas not having righteousness in the people. 

Some relevant points for today where rhetorically, is our current civilization a greater reflection of Gibeah?
  1. Note that the physical abuse of human beings with sexual actions has never stopped in history unto our very day.  Simple, but not recommended to do, Internet searches can produce links to websites where there is
    (a) sexual torture,
    (b) snuff videos,
    (c) Pedophiles on the Dark Web, and
    (d) Satanic ritual murders with initial sexual raping on the Dark Web
    which means there is financial gain and no lack of interested viewers. 
    (d.1) Adolf Hitler's chief executioner at the Concentration Camps of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, along with other prison personnel, were participating in sexual torture and sexual climaxes at the site of death.
    (d.2) Serial Killers, in so may court cases when examining their crimes, show they are also into extremely morbid, heinous, and torture sexual deviancies.  There is great deal of psychological disorders, that are of a lesser extent, that have always plagued God's peoples as also evidenced with people walking into a Church Service and shooting people in random and not random motivated attacks.
    (e) Forced sex in place of employment and movie studios that is called consensual in court cases.
    Acts 20:29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
  2. Every country in the world has judicial systems that do NOT always prosecute people who break the law where even the most modern countries, there are people with money that are able to circumvent judicial systems along with purchasing, through legal monetary contributions, a lesser verdict.  Then there is also the use of judicial practices that protect criminals because of their implied political benefits.

Sexual intimacy has been perverted from the way God has intended, and the worlds policing with judicial systems are grossly inadequate along with only getting worse.  Sexual perversions and justice is leading to a crescendo period of time in the Tribulation Period.  The future Antichrist, in the Tribulation Period, will be a man only attracted to other men, in abusive and sadistic sexual actions that causes maming and murder.

Daniel 11:36-37
Three areas of idolatry		 36 Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is decreed will be done. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.
Micah 7:1-6

This is also a scriptural pointer after the Rapture		 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig. 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 3 Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together. 4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. 5 Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6 For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Preface and Understanding God's Law on Same Gender Sexual Relationships with "Being Given over to the Desire"

Many Christians speak about the two cities of Sodom and Gomorra being destroyed with the belief:

Not True  That it was homosexuality that caused the destruction
Not True  Because there was the complete destruction of the two cities, the belief is God sees homosexuality as deserving of death and destruction

The full explanation of the consequence of destruction is explained in the next section of this topic.

The following is an excerpt from the Homosexuality and Lesbian topic:
  1. Leviticus 20:13 explains the act of same gender sexual relation is an abomination to God  
    (a) Currently, we are living in a different dispensation of Grace and Mercy where immediate consequences are contingent upon Salvation Status.  There are many verses like 1 John 2:1 details with "My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One."
    (b) In the Old Testament period, God gave forgiveness to King David and also to the Prophet Hosea's wife Gomer from adultery, which was a sin that had a consequence of death.
    (c) Even in Old Testament period jurisdiction, the specific sins that required death by stoning required at least two witnesses.   This does not mean anyone, any time in history should performs in secret away from witnesses.
    (d) Many people commit sexual acts, besides same gender, that should require harsh penalties even unto criminal death such as sex with children, rape, and sadism, masochism against the unwilling recipient, and sex with animals.
    (e) The commandment of Leviticus 20:13, as well as many of God's commandments, should be part of laws of the nations to stop so many sexual acts through the deterrent consequences which now are impossible for nations to administrate because of widespread acceptance.   Because there is so many sinful acts besides same gender sex, we all are facing the Judgment of God upon our nations through the condoning of them which was one of the paramount sins of Sodom and Gomorra.
     
  2. Perhaps the greatest penalty, that is worse than our mortal death, is not having an inheritance in Eternity to show God that we are worthy of what Jesus Christ did on the Cross for us!  There will be people that have Salvation that will not be part of the Wedding Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which will cause them to be in great despair in not being a participant even though they are grateful that they are still with God in Eternity.
     
  3. Romans 1:21-32 is perhaps the most well-known warning against sexual impurity.  Notice the partial verse "God also gave them up".   This author has not heard or read one Christian message that has made the following distinction and explanation:
    (a) There are some people born with same gender attractions because of the Fall of Adam and Eve Consequences.  This does not exonerate them to act on their sexual attractions.
    (b) The scriptural passage of Romans 1:21-32, and other scriptures, is stating that because of the sins of individuals that act against God in such as profane and grievous way such as Idolatry, Adultery, Murder, harm to Children / Elderly that the person will suffer the immediate consequence of becoming attracted to same gender sexual appetites and worse sexual appetites which then further damages their earthly life and future eternity status. 
    * There are people, that have Salvation which cannot be lost, that have and are jeopardizing their Rewards in Heaven, and
    * for people that do not have Salvation are going to suffer greater consequences in the Lake of Fire.
    (c) Most importantly for the Christian and non-Christian that is either attracted or not attracted to same gender sexual relations:
    * Just because someone that is not attracted to same gender sexual relations cannot automatically assume that someone else that has same gender attractions is experiencing the consequences by God of "gave them up to uncleanness" for having same gender attraction!  Romans 1:21-32 explains the circumstances of being given over to uncleanness which can still be removed from repenting of root causes.
    * Just because someone has same gender sexual attraction does not mean God does not love that person and that person cannot have Salvation!  If you are a person that has same gender attraction, this author loves you as a fellow Christian or a person that needs to become a Christian and wants the best for you through deliverance of this.
    * If a person was heterosexual and developed bisexual or homosexual attraction, then this person should absolutely consider their life's choices and direction to stop all actions that are against God and all viewpoints that do not acknowledge God as being responsible to God!
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 
1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men. 
Romans 1:21-32 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

 

What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorra?

Careful examination of the Scriptures shows us what were the real reasons, for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra  was because there were many sin problems in the two cities:

  1. Genesis 18:27-33 details Abraham trying to negotiate with a Theophany appearance of the Lord to not destroy Sodom and Gomorra.  At the end of the negotiation's requests from Abraham to the Theophany, Abraham asked the Lord to not destroy Sodom if there can be found at least 10 righteous people.  The problem was there was not even 10 with the exception of one family.
    (a) Note that the negotiations started off with 50 people and Abraham managed to get the number reduced down to 10. 
    (b) Abraham had concerns for the cities, because his nephew, Lot, along with Lot's family was in Sodom.
    Genesis 18:31-32 31 Abraham said, Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there? He said, For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it. 32 Then he said, May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there? He answered, For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.
  2. In Genesis 19:4-11, the two Angels of God who were with the Theophany appearance of the Lord, went to Sodom to get Abraham's nephew Lot out of Sodom before it is destroyed.  While the two Angels were there:
    (a) The men of the city, that were young to old, tried to get to the two Angels at Lot's house, using force.  The scriptures states that the men had goals to have sexual relations with the two Angels, who they thought were men.  The scriptural text implies a gang forced rape.
    (b) Lot, offers his two daughters in place of the two Angels, which the men had no desire.
    (c) The two Angels, eventually struck the men with blindness to stop their attempted break-in of the house.
    (d) The two Angels take Lot and his family out of Sodom, because they tell Lot that the destruction cannot happen until Lot and his family are removed.
    (e) There is more to the incident that includes Lot's wife disobeying by looking back to Sodom, where she is turned into a pillar of salt in Genesis 19:26.
  3. In Jeremiah 23, we are given a comparison of the state of Israel where Israel is committing adultery, telling lies, worshiping false gods and many other forms of evil which God compares them to the people of Sodom and Gomorra.
  4. In Isaiah 36:8-9, we hear the people of Jerusalem and Judah are speaking and doing evil like the people did in Sodom and Gomorra.
  5. In Ezekiel 16:49-50, we learn that:
    (a) Pride,
    (b) Not helping the poor and needy,
    (c) Haughtiness, and
    (d) Abominations
    were amongst the foremost sins of Sodom and Gomorra.
  6. Additionally, as detailed in the next section of this topic, there was an additional sin with the Fallen Angels creating Nephilim in Sodom, Gomorrah and near by cities.

Therefore, the major sin of Sodom and Gomorra was the items listed in point #5 that are highlighted in yellow.

Jeremiah 23:14 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Isaiah 36:8-9 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. 9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. 

Sodom, Gomorrah and Cities about them had Nephilim

This author has not seen this in any Biblical Commentaries, but there is a reference in Jude 1:6-7 that indicates that Sodom and Gomorrah also had the the sin of entertaining Fallen Angels that created Nephilim in the cities. 

The following is an excerpt from the Nephilim topic:
  1. The word habitation in the Greek is Oiketerion.  It is the spiritual body we aspire to receiving in Heaven.  The Fallen Angels who participated in this act, were put in chains in darkness in Tartarus, to await the final Great White Throne of Judgment by Jesus Christ.  Notice also the act of the Fallen Angels also occurred in Sodom and Gomorrah with creation of Nephilim.
    Jude 1:6-7 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Guiding Points to knowing the full fate of why Sodom, Gomorrah and surrounding cities were to be obliterated from the additional Jude 1:6-7 reference to Sodom and Gomorrah:

  1. In Jude 1:7: "Having in like manner" that indicates done exactly the same.
  2. In Jude 1:7: "Given themselves over to fornication" and "gone after strange flesh" means having sexual copulation with something that is "strange" and NOT human but has flesh.  Old Biblical Commentaries, that do not recognize the Nephilim try to put an incorrect connotative transfer of the meaning of "strange" to mean homosexuality where that is not true.
  3. Twice referenced in In Jude 1:6 and 7, the "these given over to fornication", because they "left their habitation", as receiving and being shown as an "example" which does NOT require the future Great White Thrown of Judgment for us to know their fate will be the Lake of Fire.  Habitation is the Spiritual Body as explained in the Nephilim topic.
    (a) Great White Thrown of Judgment is for establishing the fate and punishment for human-beings without Salvation.  Salvation is a free gift, not earned and cannot be lost, by accepting Jesus Christ as a person's Savior.
    (b) Fallen Angels and Demons know their fate where they do not know the extent of the degrees of punishment.
    (c) Homosexuality is a sin, but it is forgivable just like murder, adultery and many other sins.  Homosexuality is not one of the Four Greatest Sins!
    (d) Homosexuality does NOT cause a person to go the Lake of Fire.  Failing to accept Jesus Christ as a person's Savior will condemn a person to the Lake of Fire. 
    (e) Some people are born with same gender attractions.  Some acquire same gender attraction because of sinful sexual experiences, pride, and desires to be worshiped.  See topic on Sex with wrongful uses of sex.
    (f) Rebelling against God can have the consequences to be given over to a reprobate mind as read in Romans 1:28.  The consequences are a desire to do many types of grievous sins that may include a starting place as a same gender attraction but with additional very deviant sexual appetites in both homosexual and heterosexual sex.  Notice that the consequences are not all sexual appetites, but a desire to participate in areas that are more and more offensive to God which will always ultimately involve Satanic Possession or Satanic Oppression. 
    Romans 1:26-32 26 For this reason God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

    28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which should not be done;

    29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

    (g) Homosexuality is a sin that for the Christian will cause the loss of Rewards in Heaven.
    (h) Christians that were homosexual and even died as actively participating in homosexuality will be remorseful at the Judgment Seat of Christ

  4. The Great Flood, according to some Biblical Scholars and this author, was required to deal with the Nephilim infiltration of the entire Earth that was also trying to infect the Royal Blood Line of Jesus Christ.
  5. Joshua, when coming into the Promise Land, was instructed to wipe out every living creature that breathed in specific locations that contained Nephilim.
  6. Jesus Christ stated when a sign of the time of His Second Coming, the Tribulation Period would be like the "days of Noah" having Nephilim.
    Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
  7. God puts all Fallen Angels in chains in Tartarus for creating Nephilim.   Note that this author's theory, not seen in any Biblical Commentaries, is the Fallen Angels in Chains will become the Stinging type of Locusts with scorpion-type stings of Revelation 9:3 and they are in a locked prison area that the Fallen Angel Gog will receive a key to open as part of the Judgments of the Tribulation Period.

Location of Sodom and Gomorra

Many Biblical Scholars and archeologists, that have investigated the ancient location of cities, believe the two cities' ruins are located in the area or under the waters of the Dead Sea.   Some of the theories, which have some very strong evidence, have the two located on a Fault Line.  The theory is a massive earth quake with magma exploding into the air was a possible cause of the destruction.  This theory is not taking God out of the destruction, but rather it shows that the scriptures have collaboration and God often uses His Creation's natural phenomenon. 

The Fate of Sodom and Gomorra

The fate of Sodom and Gomorra was utter destruction that left nothing physically standing. 

Genesis 19:24-25 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 

Very important: God does not hate children, teenagers and young adults.  There was certainly children, teenagers and young adults in these cities which would be protected by the Age of Accountability.  It is often mentioned by many Biblical Scholars, that if God chooses to exercise a judgment that wipes out a group of people where children are also inhabitants, then there is Mercy in the Judgment that also allows the opportunity for Salvation for those under the Age of Accountability.

Regarding the destruction by the use of the "brimstone and fire from Jehovah", there are suggestions by some Biblical Scholars that the tar pits mentioned in Genesis 14:10 would have also caught on fire in the area, which would have caused the incineration of everything that could be burned which includes all humans and animals.

Genesis 14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Something Amazing Overlooked?

An excerpt from the topic on Lot:

Notice in Genesis 19:20-22 that Lot and his family's presence in Sodom prohibited the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra.  This is amazing reassurance of God's love for all of us, who have faith in Him.

  1. God waited until the two Angels removed Lot and his family before the destruction.
  2. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorra could not happen until the only remaining righteous people were removed, which was Lot and his family.

This action by the Angels, showed that God:

  1. Had plans for Lot and his family, just like God has plans for all of us. 
  2. God loved Lot and his family.
Genesis 19:20-22

Lot is speaking to the two Angels.		 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me (Lot) flee to it it is very small, isn t it? Then my life will be spared. 21 He (one of the Angels) said to him, Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it. (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

(The key part is the Angels are not allowed to have Sodom and Gomorra destroyed until the Angels removed Lot and his family.  The two cities of Sodom and Gomorra had surrounding villages where Zoar is one of them ruled over by Sodom and Gomorra.)

Yes, we can experience suffering that might be unto death, but the Christian that experiences in any suffering or death that is not the result of sin, will be compensated.  Suffering from the results of sin can all be turned into a blessing with the correct response to God.  All undeserved suffering by the Christian will have the opposite effect on the Christian, when the Christian acts correctly, which will add glory to God and to the Christian. 

There is so much evidence in the scriptures, that point out that God is completely in charge of all things.  God has plans for every single one of us, where we only need to ask Jesus Christ to be our Savior and start growing in our Christian life. 

God's City Jerusalem becomes like Sodom and Gomorra for 3.5 Years

In the Book of Revelation, there is a reference to the Two Witnesses that are killed, but resurrected in 3.5 days as a pattern of Jesus Christ, to being in the city of Jerusalem where the city of Jerusalem had become like Sodom and Gomorra.

The key link between Sodom and Gomorra and the city of Jerusalem, where Jerusalem is God's City, is

  1. The Antichrist will be in charge of Jerusalem in the Tribulation Period,
  2. The Antichrist had made Jerusalem, during the 3.5 years, like Sodom and Gomorra where Jerusalem becomes a city of every kind of sin against God and one another to be prevalent.  
  3. The under the ruling of the Antichrist in Jerusalem in the Tribulation Period, the city will become like Sodom and Gomorra having extreme:
    (a) pride,
    (b) haughtiness,
    (c) selfishness,
    (d) every kind of sexual sin that includes murder in the act of sex,
    (c) oppression, and
    (d) all of the highest form of blasphemy against God.

Note that Lucifer's city is and has always been Babylon.  Babylon, has always had people living in the location even though it currently is not much of a city in modern times.  Babylon is destined to be judged and destroyed by God during the Tribulation Period.

The scriptural passage of Revelation 11:7-8 is detailing with:

  1. Three and one-half days before the end of the Tribulation Period.
  2. The Two Witnesses' mission in their speaking against the Antichrist will end with their murder.
  3. The murder will be by the "beast that rises from the bottomless pit",  
    (a) The beast is identified in Revelation 9:11 as Abandon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek. 
    (b) The beast is also known as Gog through the further description of Amos 7:1 in KJV.
    (c) For more details read the topic on Gog and Magog.
  4. For three and half days the Two Witnesses will lie in the street of the Great City, which is Jerusalem
  5. Jerusalem has become like Sodom and Gomorra with all of the extreme sins against God, people, women and children.
     

Revelation 11:7-8 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
Revelation 9:11 They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek it is Apollyon.
Amos 7:1 in KJV Thus has the Lord God shewed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog

(See the topic on Gog and Magog  to understand the direct coloration of the king of the abyss is the high-ranking Fallen Angel named Gog.

What to read next?

What does the Scriptures tell us about Lesbianism and Homosexuality.  Because there is so much sexuality in advertising, entertainment industry and the Internet, consider understanding the problems of Pornography.  If you are in a marriage and need assistance understanding the needs of your spouse, consider reading the topic on roles in a relationship that we all require. 

Additionally: What is Salvation?  Is it possible to lose Salvation?  We have eternal life.  Evolution is not real.  When a Christian suffers is there benefits from it.  Rewards in heaven.  Do we Tithe?  What does the 3rd Commandment tell us?  What is Grace and Mercy?  Is there an Age of Accountability?  Is there a place of unending punishment and exile form God?