Genesis 19:15–22
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a passage that is deeply uncomfortable for the modern mind. We live in an age that wants a God who is all mercy and no judgment, all tolerance and no holiness, all affirmation and no wrath. Sodom was not just a city with a peculiar sin problem; it was a civilization in full-throated, arrogant rebellion against the created order. It was a society that had called good evil and evil good, and its destruction was a terrible and righteous preview of the final judgment to come. And we find it lavished upon a man who is, to put it mildly, a spiritual buffoon. He has been breathing the toxic air of that place for so long that his spiritual lungs are blackened. He is a compromised man, a worldly man, a man whose daughters have learned far more from the city than from their father's faith.