Bulletproof by Jeff Rostocil

Author:Jeff Rostocil [ Rostocil, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768442052
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

CHAPTER 8

WITH A VENGEANCE

“A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked” (Psalm 91:7-8).

THE ASHES of Sodom and Gomorrah still bear witness that the kindness and severity of God is no small matter. According to biblical genealogies, these cities were populated by the descendants of Ham, one of Noah’s three sons who passed through the waters of the flood. Ham brought a curse upon his son Canaan when he exposed his father’s nakedness in his tent. It was this curse that the descendants of Ham sowed into the land where they settled after exiting the ark—the real estate of the Middle East. Wickedness prevailed throughout the land of Canaan for centuries until the region was eventually reclaimed and redeemed by the children of Israel in Joshua’s day.

Scripture records that the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah was so great that it reached the ears of Heaven. The Lord Himself, in the form of a man and accompanied by two angels, came down to assess the situation. After His famous conversation with Abraham, Yehovah sent the two angels disguised as men to Sodom. When they found lodging in the house of Lot, Scripture records that all the men from the city, young and old and from every quarter, surrounded Lot’s house. They demanded that the two angels be brought out so they could be immoral with them.

Sodom was a godless and depraved city, but this is not the sole reason it was destroyed. It was destroyed for its lack of a righteous remnant. We learn that if there had been only ten righteous in the city, God would have spared the wicked on behalf of the righteous. But not even ten could be found. In fact, there was barely even one.

Lot is called righteous in Scripture even though he made some very questionable decisions. He was quite willing to permit the inflamed men of Sodom to gang-rape and most likely dispose of his two virgin daughters as a concession for their demands to violate the two angels. This was eastern hospitality taken to a perverted level, to say the least. When the raging homosexual crowd refused, insisting they wanted the two strangers, the angels yanked Lot back into the house, shut the door and struck the mob with blindness. Though blind, the rowdy and determined crowd still would not relent, wearing themselves out to fulfill their lusts as they groped to find the door.

Vexed and armed with the fury of Heaven, the angels urgently warned Lot to flee from the coming wrath of God, but Lot was still reluctant. The angels had to physically grab him and his family and escort them to the gates of the city. When Lot continued to resist and complained that escaping to the mountains was too dangerous, the angels showed him mercy and allowed them to flee to the nearby city of Zoar.

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