Genesis 14:1–12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is convinced of its own sophistication. Our political analysts and talking heads speak of global conflicts, economic pressures, and military alliances as though they were the ultimate realities. They draw their maps, calculate their risks, and project their power, all while remaining completely oblivious to the real story that is unfolding. It opens with a complex international conflict, a coalition of kings from the East sweeping down to crush a rebellion of city-states in the West. This is the first war recorded in Scripture, and it is a clash of empires. It is a messy, bloody affair, the kind of thing that fills our news feeds today. And right in the middle of this grand, geopolitical drama, the camera suddenly zooms in on two men: a compromised believer named Lot, and a faithful patriarch named Abram.