SEE WBC’S VIDEO PRODUCTION, HERE: http://bit.ly/1a0OCbz
WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM? INDEED. THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE ASKED AND ANSWERED BY EVERY MAN, EVERY DAY, EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD. IN SEVERAL PLACES, THE BIBLE STATES THAT SODOM IN AN EXAMPLE, OR AN OBJECT LESSON FOR EVERY GENERATION – IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC MORAL DECAY HAVING A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THAT SOCIETY. CONSIDER THE SCRIPTURE:
EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRHA, AND THE CITIES ABOUT THEM IN LIKE MANNER, GIVING THEMSELVES OVER TO FORNICATION, AND GOING AFTER STRANGE FLESH, ARE SET FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE. (JUDE 1:7)
AND
AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA INTO ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY; AND DELIVERED JUST LOT, VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION OF THE WICKED: (FOR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN DWELLING AMONG THEM, IN SEEING AND HEARING, VEXED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL FROM DAY TO DAY WITH THEIR UNLAWFUL DEEDS;) (2 PETER 2:6)
AND
I HAVE SEEN ALSO IN THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM AN HORRIBLE THING: THEY COMMIT ADULTERY, AND WALK IN LIES: THEY STRENGTHEN ALSO THE HANDS OF EVILDOERS, THAT NONE DOTH RETURN FROM HIS WICKEDNESS: THEY ARE ALL OF THEM UNTO ME AS SODOM, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF AS GOMORRAH. (JEREMIAH 23:14)
MANY PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, TO THIS DAY, REFER TO THE DEAD SEA AS ‘THE SEA OF LOT’ –KNOWING THAT THIS WAS THE SITE OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MORAL OBJECT LESSONS IN THE HISTORY OF MAN. GOOGLE IT. LISTEN UP, PEOPLE – SODOM WAS A THRIVING CITY THAT WAS UTTERLY DESTROYED FOR ITS GRIEVOUS SIN AND CALLOUS DISREGARD OF GOD’S WORD – MOST NOTABLY THE OPEN PRACTICE AND SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY. ITS WHY, FOR CENTURIES THEREAFTER, MANY CULTURES REFERRED TO HOMOSEXUALITY ITSELF AS ‘SODOMY.’IT’S WHERE WE GET THE WORD FROM.
KINGS ASA, JEHOSHAPHAT AND JOSIAH WERE ALL COMMENDED BY GOD SPECIFICALLY FOR DRIVING ‘THE SODOMITES’ OUT OF THE LAND – AND WE’RE TALKING SODOMITES WITH A ASMALL ‘S’ – THOSE WHO WERE THUS NAMED FOR THEIR DEPRAVED SEX PRACTICES – THE BIBLE WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WERE ‘FROM SODOM’, BECAUSE THERE WERE NO PEOPLE FROM SODOM ANYMORE – IT WAS WIPED CLEAR OF THE MAP AS A CIVILIZATION CENTURIES EARLIER.
SO LET’S BE CLEAR – SODOM WAS NOT DESTROYED BECAUSE OF INHOSPITALITY, LIKE THE SODOMITE ‘CHURCHES’ WOULD JAM DOWN YOUR THROAT. AND LET’S BE CLEAR – SODOMY, OR HOMOSEXUALITY, WAS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF THAT CITY-STATE’S DEMISE – NOT JUST IN TERMS OF PRACTICING IT, BUT EVEN MORE IN TERMS OF THAT FILTHY SIN GAINING WHOLESALE SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE. HEY JOEL, WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM? HEY OPRAH – WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM? ELLEN? ANDERSON, RACHEL? WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM? RUTH? BARNEY? BARACK? I BET MAHMOUD COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION, AND HE DOESN’T EVEN CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN MAN, HUH RICK? HUH FRANKLIN? IN EVERY CLASSROOM IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THIS WORLD, THE QUESTION OUGHT TO BE ASKED AND ANSWERED BY HISTORY TEACHERS, ETHICISTS, THEOLOGIANS, LAW PROFESSORS, AND PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS – WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM? SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS SHOULD PUT DOWN THE ‘FELT BOARD SHEEP AND BIBLE BASEBALL GAMES, AND TEACH THOSE CHILDREN WHY GOD DESTROYED SODOM. PARENTS IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN THE WORLD SHOULD SIT DOWN WITH THEIR CHILDREN, WITH A BIBLE, AND TEACH THEM WHY GOD DESTROYED SODOM. AND FROM EVERY PULPIT IN THIS WORLD, EVERY PREACHER OR PRIEST WHO CALLS HIMSELF, NOT HERSELF, ‘A SERVANT OF GOD’ SHOULD PREACH ON THE TOPIC OF WHY GOD DESTROYED SODOM.
AMEN.