Genesis 19 The Salvation Message is Here Today- Don't Wait!!! Read It, Give it away, Tell it, Pray it!

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Genesis 19:1-38
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
1That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom, and Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground. 2"My lords," he said, "come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may then get up in the morning as early as you like and be on your way again." "Oh no," they said, "we'll just spend the night out here in the city square."
3But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast. After the meal, 4as they were preparing to retire for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house. 5They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out so we can have sex with them."
6Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him. 7"Please, my brothers," he begged, "don't do such a wicked thing. 8Look—I have two virgin daughters. Do with them as you wish, but leave these men alone, for they are under my protection."

9"Stand back!" they shouted. "Who do you think you are? We let you settle among us, and now you are trying to tell us what to do! We'll treat you far worse than those other men!" And they lunged at Lot and began breaking down the door. 10But the two angels reached out and pulled Lot in and bolted the door. 11Then they blinded the men of Sodom so they couldn't find the doorway.

12"Do you have any other relatives here in the city?" the angels asked. "Get them out of this place—sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. 13For we will destroy the city completely. The stench of the place has reached the LORD, and he has sent us to destroy it."

14So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters' fiancé’s, "Quick, get out of the city! The LORD is going to destroy it." But the young men thought he was only joking.

15At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. "Hurry," they said to Lot. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out of here right now, or you will be caught in the destruction of the city."

16When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the LORD was merciful. 17"Run for your lives!" the angels warned. "Do not stop anywhere in the valley. And don't look back! Escape to the mountains, or you will die."

18"Oh no, my lords, please," Lot begged. 19"You have been so kind to me and saved my life, and you have granted me such mercy. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die. 20See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don't you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved."

21"All right," the angel said, "I will grant your request. I will not destroy that little village. 22But hurry! For I can do nothing until you are there." From that time on, that village was known as Zoar. F61

23The sun was rising as Lot reached the village. 24Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the heavens on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, eliminating all life—people, plants, and animals alike. 26But Lot's wife looked back as she was following along behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27The next morning Abraham was up early and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the LORD's presence. 28He looked out across the plain to Sodom and Gomorrah and saw columns of smoke and fumes, as from a furnace, rising from the cities there. 29But God had listened to Abraham's request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.

Lot and His Daughters
30Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters. 31One day the older daughter said to her sister, "There isn't a man anywhere in this entire area for us to marry. And our father will soon be too old to have children. 32Come, let's get him drunk with wine, and then we will sleep with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father." 33So that night they got him drunk, and the older daughter went in and slept with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
34The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, "I slept with our father last night. Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him. That way our family line will be preserved." 35So that night they got him drunk again, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again. 36So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
37When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab. F62 He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites. 38When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. F63 He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.
FOOTNOTES:F61: Zoar means "little." F62: Moab sounds like a Hebrew term that means "from father." F63: Ben-ammi means "son of my people."

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~ Lena’s Journalin’~
WOW, what a passage!
The announcement has been made this way and that way, over and over again to deaf and dying people. It is so time to awaken to the dawning of the new day.
How long will we live for ourselves, our own desires, our own goals?
We don’t even have to answer one another, we live out our answers.
When God comes to visit do we recognize Him? Do we hear Him call us out of darkness, wickedness? He is calling day and night for those who will hear His saving voice.
I had a friend who went to another country. She was outside of familiar territory, she was alone in a hotel room and looked out over the city there, then she went to bed and began to hear a horrendous crying, a wailing, she wondered what it was, it got louder and louder, it would not stop. It was like hearing the cries of hell. It made her cry, made her cringe, at first she wondered if someone was being beaten, abused, or harmed in the streets, but then she realized it was not only one person, it was many, it was a city-full. God was allowing her to hear the groans of an unsaved city, of a city destined to hell for eternity if someone did not rise up in obedient response and pray, and speak, and save!
This is the very condition of our cities, towns, state, country and world. We are the saviors- the Christians. Do we hear the cry? The angel said the stench of this place has risen up to the heavens! Do we smell the sulfur? Hell smells like sulfur, that smell never stops, the senses do not become numb.
If we live out our own desires ignoring the cries of the earth, people will burn eternally, while hell was not made for people! Hell was made for satan and his angels, yet they work overtime looking for recruits, that they’ve lied to about it. What is tragic is there is a Savior who died to save men and women from hell.
I’ve heard people say, “Don’t pressure me!”
Dear God, why not? I see here the angel took a hold of Lot’s hand and grabbed him out of the darkness he was in. Lot was not yet able to see beyond his own flesh and through the sin he’d become a participator in.
He was giving his own children’s lives over to the stench of hell’s fire before they even died.
Dear God, if we do not pressure and save people and they die in their sin, they’ll burn forever without God.
We met a man this past year, he lived in our community, just a few blocks from our church. A girl in my cell befriended him, because he came into her place of employment for a service. As she served him in her business, she felt he needed Jesus. She wanted to take it easy on him where that subject was concerned because she didn’t want to “offend or pressure” him. All of us told her to be careful, he is a single male, etc….He was nice, he even cooked! She was casual with him, but really wanted to break the ice and tell him about Jesus. He came to church one Weds night and brought his nice motorcycle. Our pastor even invited him to go on a ride with a group of the riders at church, to ease him into a relationship with us so maybe he’d trust us enough to hear the gospel message from us someday. He didn’t show up for the ride. As the business relationship grew the lady decided to get a little more forward and tell Him she wanted him to come to church, she’d lead in here and there about the gospel message of salvation and Jesus, but he didn’t want to hear it. Finally too much “pressure” from her and he stopped coming around. Last night she said he died of a sudden heart attack. He was young. She hadn’t seen him in over 6 mos. His friend stopped in the store to say he was gone and she might want to know. He’d passed away in May!
This IS the state of people. They are dying and going to hell if we do not take them by the hand and lead them out!
Come on what is at risk, your reputation? Wow! Jesus said no greater love does a man have for another man, than he lay down his life (desires, reputations, etc) for a “friend”.
Lot was willing to throw his girls to the “dogs”. We think that night was the only night that they were being thrown to the “dogs”, in reality they lived there amongst the “dogs”, willingly. They were thrown out there everyday. They had tasted sin and liked it, all of them, but there was a family member who had come out from darkness, who was interceding for them, who would not take no for an answer! God heard that prayer.
The girls, those meant to be used to reproduce Jesus in the earth, were infiltrated, infused and under the influence of the mixture, a little of God- rescued, but a lot more world. A little God in a lot of world won’t do! It won’t do, especially where our children are concerned.
Parents- Get out of Sodom! Jesus is the only way out, or else what will come forth will not be of God, or from God and the consequences will be far reaching.
Sodom and Gomorrah was burned to the ground, but the family took it with them, because it was not rooted out of them.
We cannot live in and of this world and just go to church once a week and be ok.
Dear God our generations are at stake! We’ve got to dive into the life of the spirit of Christ, become Him in the earth. That will take more than a once a week, 1 hr. “program”.
Be bold, you have no idea how short life is for someone or how serious the hour is now. People are dying all around us everyday, and if they aren’t physically dead yet, they are already spiritually dead.
If we rescue them now spiritually and they live on longer on earth, then they can join us and rescues some!
Jn 3: 3b..Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to--to God's kingdom."
4"How can anyone," said Nicodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up? You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again. What are you saying with this "born-from-above' talk?"
5Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation--the "wind hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life--it's not possible to enter God's kingdom. 6When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch--the Spirit--and becomes a living spirit.
7"So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be "born from above'--out of this world, so to speak. 8You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone "born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God."
9Nicodemus asked, "What do you mean by this? How does this happen?"
10Jesus said, "You're a respected teacher of Israel and you don't know these basics? 11Listen carefully. I'm speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes. There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions. 12If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don't believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can't see, the things of God?
13"No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man. 14In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up--15and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life.
16"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. 17God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. 18Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
19"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. 20Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. 21But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."

Tell someone unsaved today- Jesus loves you!


Daily Meditation/Recital/Question
Isaiah 58:12 (New Living Translation)
12 Your children will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. Then you will be known as the people who rebuild their walls and cities.