Yesterday we read about how Abraham spoke up to God and pleaded for Sodom....Did you wonder why? Abraham was a Godly man, God's friend why would he plead for a place with evil people? Because his nephew Lot and Lot's family lived there. A short time earlier the area and its cities had been attacked and its people carried off by an enemy, into slavery. Abraham had gathered all his men, those who worked for him, a fairly large number now, because God had blessed him and he was a wealthy man. They tracked the enemy and rescued Lot and all the people of Sodom....it was then that Abraham tithed to Melchizedek. Abraham may have felt these were Lot's people, and therefore felt some family responsibility toward them.

Genesis states, when the 2 angels arrived in Sodom that Lot was 'sitting at the gate' this is a ancient Middle Eastern term that indicates that Lot was the local magistrate or a town leader. Maybe he was trying to change things in Sodom, but it was a lost cause......the Bible indicates the culture of the town was such that every man came out to assault the strangers who had arrived, ALL but Lot were homosexual gang rapists.

Many of these men had once followed Abraham and Lot, following Lot, settling with him in the fertile valley when he chose to live there, obviously they had been corrupted by those in Sodom, since they arrived. Not all of these men were gay....we know 2 were engaged to the daughters of Lot, but this had become the culture of the place. Lot knew how evil this was, he recognized the angels for what they were and went so far as to offer the gang his virgin daughters rather than have them defile God's messenger's. Which makes me think he was a horrible parent. How far had his own morals fallen since he chose to remain living in Sodom?

Today we read how God could not find 10 good men in Sodom and He looked because he had promised Abraham he would. But he saved Lot and his immediate family, while not the greatest parent, Lot hadn't fallen into the evil of the men of Sodom. This is a WARNING for our world today......I doubt the culture in Sodom started that way.....it fell slowly becoming more morally corrupt because that's how these things decay. Like a frog in a pot of boiling water that doesn't jump out because the pot heats up so slowly it doesn't notice until it's too late. In the last few weeks how many could avoid the reports of the "Diddy trial".....How many know about the horrors of the grooming gangs in the UK. Even the church has not been immune with the scandals of pedophile priests which have come out in the last 10 years. The police in Sodom were obviously as corrupt as everyone else, but today we thankfully still have some good uncorrupt police and God has acted through them. God will NOT let these things go unpunished.