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THEME.
(1) Lot welcomes two Angels into his home.and example of hospitality.
(2) The wicked Sodomites are struck with blindness. and examples of the wicked rebuked and confounded.
(3) The duty of separating from evil association's and the duty of warning the wicked.
(4) Ministering Angels and examples of Divine deliverance. and God's mercy.
(5) Lot and his family are directed to flee to the mountains.
and he requests to a flee to a small village and its therefore called small village Zoar.
(6) Sodom and Gomorrah is destroyed. by fire and brimstone.
fire as a instruments of Judgement.
(7) Lot's wife turns to a pillar of salt.and examples of the hindrance to spiritual progress.
(8) The origin of Moab and Ammon.
1-Lot enterains two Angels.
Verse1
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
-( Angels of Wrath.execution the Judgment of God.
Ge 19-1; Jud 5-33; 2 Sam 24-16; 1 Chr 21-15; 2 Chr 32-21; Isa 37-36; Ac 12-23;)
-( General life of lot son of Haran.
Ge 11-27'31; 12-4;13-1'11;14-12;19-1'23;
Lu 17-28;2 Pet 2-7;
Life Summarized.
(1) A religious man .2 Pet 2-7'8;
(2) Made a wordly choice.Ge 13-10'11;
(3) Associated with evil men.Ge 13-12'13;19-1;
(4) Narrow escaped from destruction.Ge 19-17;
(5) lost property. wife and reputation. Ge 19-22;)
-( Gates of cities and town as place of business.
Ge 23-10;34-20; De 16-18; 21-19;22-15;
Jos 20-4; Ru 4-1; 2 Sam 15-2;1K 22-10;
Pr 1-21;22-22; Jer 14-2; Zec 8-16;)
-( Obeisance.
Ge 37-7;43-28;Ex 18-7;2 Sam 15-5; Isa 49-23; Mt 2-11; Lu 8-41;)
verse 2
And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”
-( Instances of hospitality.
Ge 18-4;19-2;24-31;Ex 2-20; Jud 13-15;
19-20; 2 K 4-8; Ne 5-17; Jb 31-32; Ac 16-15'34;21-8;28-2'7;)
-( Feet washing.
Ge 18-4;19-2;24-32;43-24;1 Sam 25-41;
2 Sam 11-8;Lu 7-44; Jn 13-5; 1 Tim 5-10;)
verse 3
Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
