What an awful judgment fell on Sodom! Why is Sodom mentioned often throughout Scripture? For two reasons: God does not want people to do what they did, and He does not want to bring a similar judgment on people again. Did you know that judgment is God’s strange work? See Isaiah 28:21. He would far rather bless man than punish him. Yet, it seems that His people of old were ever inclined to the same wickedness as Sodom - if not morally, yet spiritually. Idolatry, in the sight of God, was often compared to spiritual adultery. How this grieved the heart of God and often He had to remind them, through His prophets, of the judgment he brought upon Sodom. Today, many nations who have been delivered from idol worship are falling to morals as low as those that characterized Sodom. Throughout the Scriptures there are warnings against immorality. Will God not punish where these warnings are not listened to? Yes, He will, but He always gives space for repentance because He “is long-suffering . . . not willing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:9). Let us learn from the failures of others and seek to walk in a path pleasing to God. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha is a warning to sinners of coming judgment.
1. When Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom, what does it say about the men of that city? Genesis 13:___
2. Why are Sodom and Gomorrha suffering the vengeance of eternal fire?
Jude ___
3. For whom will it be more tolerable in the judgment: the city that refuses the kingdom of God or Sodom? Luke 10:___
4. Because of immorality, worldliness and idolatry, what is the great city Jerusalem called spiritually? Revelation 11:___
5. What kind of person was not to be found among the daughters of Israel, nor among the sons of Israel? Deuteronomy 23:___