Showing posts with label Lot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lot. Show all posts

20080923

Genesis 34:10 - To Keep The Peace

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
the land shall be before you - To deal with the crisis at hand between the families, Hamor was offering Jacob's family the land of their choice in the same way that Abraham offered Lot the land his choice (Genesis 13:9).

20070716

Genesis 19:12 - Delivered on behalf of another.

And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Just as Noah's family was spared from the destruction of The Flood (Genesis 7:1) and Rahab's family was saved during the invasion of Jericho (Joshua 6:22), Lot's family was offered deliverance from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is good thing being akin to those that God favors. The only reason Lot was rescued was because God remembered Abraham (Genesis 19:29).

20070629

Genesis 14:10 - Lot's Obsession

And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Lot also escaped the slimepits but only because the kings kidnapped him and fled into the mountains. When the time came for Lot his family to flee into the mountains (Genesis 19:17), Lot questioned God's command by requesting one of Sodom and Gomorrah's neighboring cities as a safe haven.

20070628

Genesis 13:10 - Don't judge a book by it's cover.

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.
Lot chose the land that seemed best for the grazing of his livestock. However, he lost everything when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. The land looked appealing to the eyes but it was destroyed for the wickedness that it was within it (Psalms 104:37).