HEAR Journaling - Genesis 19
Highlight – Genesis 19:14-16, 23-29 New Living Translation
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful.
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23 Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. 24 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the Lord’s presence.28 He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.
29 But God had listened to Abraham’s request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.
Explain – Abraham prayed asking God to spare his cousin Lot and his family from destruction. God sent angels to warn Lot and ensure that Lot and his family were safe, however there were some people that did not heed the warnings:
1) Lot’s daughters fiancés ignored the warnings and perished
2) Lot himself hesitated so the angels compelled him and his wife and daughters to flee
3) Lot’s wife disobeyed the warning not to look back and she perished.
Through it all God was merciful and saved Lot and his daughters from certain destruction because of Abraham’s faithful prayer.
Apply – There is much to learn and apply in this story.
1) God’s patience with sinful lawless people is not limitless, He will bring ultimate justice.
2) When God sends a warning we need to listen and obey without hesitation.
3) The effective prayer of a righteous person can accomplish much!
4) God protects His people in the midst of confusion and calamity.
Respond- Lord, thank You for You never wavering faithfulness. Thank You for listening to the effective prayers of the righteous. Help me Lord to hear you clearly and obediently follow You through eternity. I pray for those that are ignoring Your warnings, that they will repent and follow You. Amen.
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