And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. Pharoah allowed Abram and Sarai to be treated like royalty, on a par with any other form of nobility, at the time. Abram, and Lot's family became affluent, multiplying their hired hands, and families, cattle and oxen, sheep and goat. These earliest images are of God, as a shephard. That is because Abraham, father to all the children of God, through his ancestor, Jesus Christ, who was the great grandson of King David. the musical and singing shephard king of Judah in Jerusalem. Prototypes are established in perpetuity based on these traits and symbols, which were also literal, since Abraham, Lot and David were shephards, indeed, of souls of men and animals. | |
| And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. Abram is RICH, but, he is a righteous man, "PERFECT" in standard. Lot who also was wealthy, began to become corrupted. In his case, wealth causes greed, and other behaviors. It is the love of money and power, for nothing more than indulgent self-aggrandizement, at the expense of others, and without recognizing God, or developing a need to seek God. It is self-sufficiency and power which corrupts, certainly not wealth. Many powerful men and women don't want to humble themselves to God. The Lord is very very very rich, indeed! Abraham was very wealthy, as was Job, David, Solomon, and the Kings. It is in the measure of honesty where we are judged by our wealth, rich or poor. The Lord's resources are redistributed to the poor and those who work for others. The Lord hears the cries of the downtrodden. He hears the cries from starving, and raped children, being sold as slaves to perverts from Sodom to Gomorrah. | |
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; | |
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. | |
| And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. | |
| And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. | |
| And there was a strife between the herdmen Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. | |
| And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.  Abram and Sarai were childless. God told them to go into Caana, to possess the land he gives them. Instead of asking God how two Senior Citizens could have a baby, by their own strength, they decide to solve the population problem by bringing their nephew Lot and his entourage and kids. At 75 and 65, Abram and Sarai thought God meant something "metaphorically." I mean, we all do it. The Angel of the LORD told them that even though they didn't ask, he heard their plea. Instead of asking the LORD whether to include his oft plagued nephew and his brood, he just took him as the proxy for the firstborn son of his loins. Like modern cultural meccas, Sodom and Gomorrah were more liberal, and suffered from poor morality. Compare it to the putrid sin in places like NYC and Los Angeles. These two cities, alone, poison the country and the morals of the world. Are they comparable to Sodom and Gomorrah? The Bible records that cities such as NYC and Los Angeles are worse, and will suffer worse fates for their ungodliness, whoredoms, idolatry and false religions glorifying man, not God, like Scientology, which pretty much rules Hollywood now, and the media which poisons the world's children's minds. One of the prophecies fulfilled in the antichrist is his power over the airwaves. In television, movies, and modern literature and philosophy, God is usually deliberately left out, or portrayed through ghastly demonically possessed actors and actresses behaving badly. The only key we have for wickedness are algorithms like the Seven Deadly Sins. If Abraham would have asked God, he would have told him not to bring Lot. And Abraham was someone who loved to please God. We are affected by those around us in a community. Obviously living near Lot was not amenable, maybe because Lot was like we are, materialistic, enjoying the lifestyles of Sodom and Gomorrah, vs contemplative and holy, righteous lives in God. | |
| [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left. | |
| And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. | |
| Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. | |
| Lot chose the plain of Jordan, because he thought it looked the best. His attitude really sucked. Instead of being beholden to his elderly uncle, he is selfish, self-centered, and chooses the lushest ground, in sight. When things are ill-conceived, they do not prosper, in the end. It's not that Lot was wicked. In comparison, Lot is like we are, in so many ways. He's materialistic. He probably dug Egypt, and when taken back to the wilderness of Canaan, he picked for himself, the lushest region. He was pampered by the kingly settings of Pharoah's court he had gotten used to. The biggest attraction for him for the considerable towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. Were they as wicked as the context against our modern cities? I don't think they could be. But, these towns were certainly sinful, in multiple ways, mostly by not honoring God, the Creator of ALL THINGS. They put their faith in material things, and enjoyed the pleasures of sin, learning cruelty, learning treachory, and losing their way. Once Lot's brood were exposed to that, the Angel of the LORD, wouldn't even come back to Abram. If Abram goofed by picking Lot, could he be trusted? As it was, Lot grabbed the best, all along, oblivious to his sacred uncle, and like a pig, always thinking of his own riches and power. Abundant wealth, and prestige was the way of the wicked. How easily even a good man like Lot, became soiled by the mere presence of such evil godless men. | |
| But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. | |
| And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: The Angel of THE LORD appears to him only after Lot had departed. This is a lesson in our lives. When we surround ourselves by those with lower morals, and who despise our LORD, it rubs off on us, like it did with Lot. At first, Lot was hard enough to take. Abraham separated himself finally when Lot was being corrupted by the Sin City prototype. When you're living in a place, surrounded by bad people, who do not honor other people's lives, property, sexual modesty, or their lives, then, it is like living in a fishbowl of stench. It's hard enough for us to endure, but, as we see with the Angel of the LORD, he won't even be around Lot, because he became "unclean." It's sad that we're so used to it, in our own ways, but, Abraham was the first to possess sacred land, where a doorway to God opened in the sacred land of Shechem, in Bethel, in Hebron. AT LAST, Lot was not intermingled, and the plan could continue... | |
| For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. | |
| And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered. | |
| Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. | |
| Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. There are many "morality plays" in Genesis. They are little windows into our collective human psyches, in taking snapshots of original behaviors. As we can see, wickedness has never been tempered out of the species, even by flood and famine, war and pestilence, persecution and genocide. So many children are being robbed of their liberty to fellowship with the Angel of the Lord, as well, because they grow up spiritually unnourished, and are exposed to atrocities, with predators lurking within their own homes. What hope is there for towns like Sodom and Gomorroh? They bring down the surrounding towns, until all places are like they are. We see this happen again, and agin in history. When will we learn? When we put wickedness, greed, immorality and selfishness behind to follow the LORD, himself. We can do it, if we want to, because the LORD will give us all the strength we need to overcome. We just need to listen for his advice, and ask him the right questions. As we'll see, even after Sodom and Gomorroh were destroyed, the seed of immorality continued. To console his grief from losing his wife, who lamented leaving Cosmopolitan Mesopatamia for outer nowheresville, and was flash fried into a pillar of salt. Lot and his girls discover alcohol and got drunk, and seduced their dad to have his inheritance. Girls obviously didn't carry the weight. His "gone wild" daughters were not shy to intoxicate and rape their dad. They were introducing a new paradigm, and justified it, by selfish, pseudo self-righteous explanations. Wicked is as wicked sees. They were raised in an environment of wickeness, all around them. You can take the girl out the Sin City, but, can't get it out of the girl. That's what flash-fried Lot's wife, and corrupted his daughters, and engendered a curse for the deed. It's always important to remember that Lot is still Abraham's nephew, the same as Ishmael is the apple of his eye. Will the blessings of God reward the faithful? I believe there are children of God, from both sides of Abraham. We're all blood. Now, do we follow the Lord, or something else? As for me, and my family, may we serve the Lord, until the end of time. Maybe it came from Sodom. Maybe the daughters who were raised with that vulgar and vile culture thought it was ok to seduce their dad, after what they saw in Sodom and Gomorroh? Sin begets sin, when the seed germanates. I'm getting ahead of myself, as I usually do. I can't just read one scripture, without it leading to branches of flowering ideas. The Lord is wonderful and I thank God for the wisdom that he hid like pearls, throughout Scripture. |
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