The Sin of Sodomy and the End Times (The Journey of Abraham)

The Sin of Sodomy and the End Times

(Photo: Abraham. Click for Source.)

Abraham (or Abram) had left Ur of the Chaldees with his father, Terah; his nephew, Lot; his wife, Sarah (or Sarai); and their servants. He traveled over 1,000 miles from Ur to Canaan (1), the land God had promised to him and his son Isaac. Ur is now called Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq and is 140 miles southeast of the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon (in Iraq) (2).

In modern times, Abraham would have hopped aboard an airliner and reached his destination in a few hours. When Abraham (who was then called Abram) got to Haran, he stayed there, waiting until his father had passed away. Then, he traveled to the land of Canaan.

In Canaan, God changed Abram’s name to Abraham and promised him and his son Isaac (who was born much later) that Canaan would belong to Abraham along with all the land between and the Nile river (the river of Egypt) and the Euphrates river (see Genesis 15:18-21). God also promised the land to Abraham’s son Isaac (Genesis 26:1-8), making it clear who God had chosen to be the promised seed. Finally, God also confirms his promise to Jacob, Isaac’s son and Abraham’s grandson (Genesis 28:10-15).

ABRAHAM’S JOURNEY AND SODOM

(Photo: the ziggurat at Ur, Iraq. Source)

Getting back to Abraham—Abraham’s flocks and herds, along with Lot’s flocks and herds, get so numerous that they cannot occupy the same land anymore and Abraham gives Lot the opportunity to choose whether or not he will settle in the then-fertile land near the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Genesis 13 says…

Genesis 13:10-12 

10 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. 

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

(Photo: Sodom, found by Ron Wyatt. Source.)

Years go by and Abraham gets older. As Lot stayed in the region near Sodom, he began to get closer to the city until the Bible records that Lot lived in the city of Sodom (Genesis 19). God the Son, the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ, appears to Abraham in the form of a man along with two angels who also appear as men. Abraham prepares a meal for them and communes with these people who he thinks are travelers. After a time, the two angels leave and head toward Sodom.

The pre-incarnate Jesus Christ stays longer with Abraham. From Him, Abraham learns that God is going to destroy Sodom and the neighboring Gomorrah because…

Genesis 13:13: “But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”

Abraham pleads with the LORD (Jesus Christ) and asks Him if He would spare the city if there were only 50 righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to the conversation between the LORD and Abraham…