Genesis 19:12–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our civilization has become one vast, open-mic night where every sacred thing is held up for ridicule and every divine warning is treated as the punchline to a very long, very tired joke. We have cultivated a sophisticated, urbane deafness to the thunder of God's law and the approaching footsteps of His judgment. We have mistaken God's patience for His absence, and His longsuffering for His non-existence. It was heard in the courts of Israel as the prophets warned of Babylonian invaders. And as we see in our text today, it was the final sound heard in the streets of Sodom before the fire fell. The story of Lot and his sons-in-law is a sobering case study in what happens when the proclamation of God's impending judgment is met with the casual amusement of men who are far too comfortable in their sin.