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Questions and Answers - Verse 13
13. a) Who, according to this text, is rotting this place?
At first, I am thinking that this refers to the two angels. Actually, the three who came participate in this rotting; and one of the three is Yeshua! This group is unified in rotting this place and the other places that are about to be destroyed.
13. b) To what does this place refer?
It consists of the cities of the plain!
13. c) Identify the pronouns in this verse:
We (in, "We are rotting …"): The two angels and Yehovah of hosts
Their (in, "Their scream"): The two cities: Sodom and Amorrah
Us (in, "Yehovah sent us"): The two angels and Yehovah of hosts
Her (in, "to rot her"): The land of the plain
13. d) Why is the word scream singular?
The cities themselves are unified as one group! They, together are screaming to Yehovah!
13. e) If the scream is big with the faces of Yehovah, what is occurring?
Yehovah is both looking at the cities, and the scream is very intense right in Yehovah’s faces! The scream is only heard by Yehovah, and by those who have ears to hear it.
13. f) Could the angels hear the scream of these cities?
I have no idea. They certainly know about this.
13. g) Who is Yehovah Who sent this us to rot the place?
This is Yehovah the Father, because the us includes Yehovah of Hosts, Yehovah Elohim.
14. a) Is it evident in this text that Lot believed the testimony of the two angels?
Yes! He went to his sons-in-law, and told them to leave! He believed! I am convinced that the blinding that the angels had done would have convinced Lot that what they say is true.
14. b) What time did Lot exit?
It was still night when Lot exited. Therefore, it is quite possible that he had to awaken his sons-in-law to speak to them. It won’t be morning until verse 15. This was an all-night event.
14. c) The text affirms that Lot spoke unto his sons-in-law. Why didn’t Lot speak unto his daughters?
This could be for several reasons.
I propose that in this culture, one approaches the husbands for family decisions, and one doesn’t skirt around that.
Lot knew better than to try to separate his married daughters from their husbands even to save their lives. This will occur in the Tribulation in the very same way. Married folks are one flesh!
I am also thinking that Lot knew that if the husbands didn’t believe Lot, neither would his daughters.
14. d) In this verse, sons-in-law are also called ‘takers of daughters.’ What does this tell the readers?
This tells the readers that the tradition and custom was for a man to take a woman as his woman. It was not a two-way situation. I don’t recall an event in the Bible in which a woman took a man as her man. Our cultures include a two-way concept, but this was not part of many cultures of the world.
14. e) Did this taking imply that a woman was as chattel?
It implied no such thing. Some men then, as today, viewed a woman as chattel; one who feared Yehovah didn’t have that perspective. A man who takes a woman, where he loves her, and she isn’t bitter at being taken, but responds, will end up with an excellent relationship if both of them concentrate on the relationship’s growth.
14. f) Where were the angels located when they told Lot, “Yehovah sent us to rot her”?
They were still in the house with Lot, Lot’s woman, and two of Lot’s daughters.
14. g) When Lot exited, what did he exit?
He exited from the house.
14. h) Where were the sons-in-law located?
They were in their own homes, and their homes might have been quite a walk one from the other.
14. i) How many sons-in-law did Lot have?
He had at least two. The text doesn’t specify the number of married daughters that Lot had; it only gives the plural form, showing at least two to exist.
14. j) Why is son-in-law singular in verse 12, while being plural in the other verses?
The term son-in-law in verse 12 refers to species, and not to persons with numbers.
14. k) Did Lot say, “Arise! Exit from this place! For Yehovah is causing- the city -to-rot!” to each of his sons-in-law?
Yes. He came in the middle of the night to say this.
14. l) Did Lot’s sons-in-law have reason to think that Lot had become crazy or disconnected from reality (I am not referring to what he said to them)?
Not at all.
14. m) Did Lot’s sons-in-law now have reason to think that he had stripped a brain gear with what he was saying?
They thought he was joking; not crazy. They knew that Lot was a man of responsible sense. What they didn’t understand was his coming late at night, potentially waking them up, and joking.
14. n) Did Lot truly expect his sons-in-law to respond to his plea?
If Lot had known that they wouldn’t respond, he would have had no reason to go. Lot certainly desired that they would respond.
14. o) Why didn’t his sons-in-law ask questions, like, “What do you mean?” and, “How do you know?” “Who told thee that?”
They truly didn’t take Lot seriously. Also, a ‘late at night’ sudden shock of the declaration of destruction usually wouldn’t come as credible to a person.
14. p) Did the citizens of the cities of Sodom, Amorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar have warnings before this night regarding dangers from Yehovah?
Amos 3:7 For my Lords Yehovah will not do a speech but-except He exposed His secret unto His slaves the prophets!
With this in mind, Yehovah sent prophets to those cities to warn them regarding the destruction. Those warnings may have been several years ago, and would have come from a much earlier time, since Yehovah doesn’t quickly destroy a location’s citizens. He waits to see if those citizens will turn, knowing in advance whether they will turn, or not. The cup of the wine of the wrath of God takes time to fill even in the most violent locations. Only when that cup has filled to the brim will Yehovah destroy. However, He gives warnings!
I maintain that the citizens of the cities of the plain had significant and clear warning regarding the sin done in those cities and the consequences that were coming. Only, if this is true, they figured that this warning wasn’t true.
14. q) Did the sons-in-law of Lot mock him when they heard what he said?
The text doesn’t in any way indicate that they mocked him; it only indicates that they thought he was joking.
I will propose that they were used to folks becoming drunk and joking about things; they may have thought that somehow, Lot had become inebriated.
15. a) Did Lot find sleep this night?
No. He had attempted to save lives; and he knew that the lives of at least two daughters were about to be destroyed, as well as all the lives of all the citizens, and their animals, that he had personally come to know. He had no reason to find sleep that night.
15. b) Why did the messengers (now being called that instead of ‘men’) hasten into Lot?
They hastened into him to get him moving! He hasn’t yet even begun to pack. Lot is still in shock that at least two daughters and sons-in-law are about to be dead with the entire city.
Lot is a cowboy! Cowboys are not easily incapacitated! They have to deal with all kinds of situations, and they see all kinds of terrible things. Yet, Lot is being incapacitated, and the messengers know this. Therefore, they will give him a boost toward reality.
15. c) Why are the daughters described as, “who are found”?
The two daughters in that house and the ones who are found. The others who aren’t found aren’t in Lot’s power to cause to exit from the city.
15. d) The wording, “lest thou wilt be consumed in the iniquity of the city” implies what?
It implies that Lot himself is in danger of being destroyed. In other words, if a Godly person refuses to leave a city that Yehovah has declared that He will destroy, the Godliness of that person will not stop Yehovah from destroying that person with the city!
A Saint must not presume on God to stop a destruction by refusing to leave.
15. e) Suppose that Lot had refused to leave; would Lot have been considered a Saint after this?
Yes.
This kind of action has occurred in other places. There will be times when a city will be destroyed, and a Saint will stay in that city, knowing it will be destroyed, in order to remain with another person there who is terrified of dying alone.
Lot was born of God; where he died and why he died would not have changed that outcome. His name is in the scroll of the lives of the lamb.
15. f) Define iniquity:
This is true guilt there remains from a committed sin, not having been removed by some appropriate means.
If a person sins, and then later stops sinning, the iniquity of the previous sins continues until that iniquity, that guilt, is likewise removed along with the forgiveness of the sins. Modern Conservative Liberal Christianity doesn’t teach about iniquity and its consequences.
15. g) Why would Lot be consumed in the iniquity of the city of Lot didn’t arise and take the family members, and leave?
The city will be consumed! If a Saint refuses to take warning and leave when such destruction is determined, the Saint will die with the destruction. That doesn’t in any way stop that person from being a Saint; one born of God cannot become unborn of God. That would, however, be the end of that Saint’s life.
15. h) Is the city guilty of anything?
The city is totally innocent; the city called to Yehovah to respond to what the citizens were doing and weren’t doing to help sojourners. Thus, the iniquity is of the citizens that make up the city, and not of the city land herself.
In the Bible, when a city is referenced, at times (and the reader must discern), the land is being specified without regard to the inhabitants. At times, the set of the citizens of the city is being targeted. A reader must distinguish; otherwise, what the reader understands will be incorrect.
In a text above, the city called to Yehovah; no inhabitants called to Yehovah, since the city desired Yehovah to do something because of the violence. Now, in this text, iniquity is associated with the city; yet, the land is innocent, and is being polluted with the blood of innocent folks. Therefore, in this verse, ‘the city’ refers to the set of inhabitants.
15. i) In the Bible, what is a city?
A city consists of a group of humans dwelling together and functioning together for the common good, including some basic services, trade, and usually some form or presence of law.
A city, in another perspective, consists of permanent or temporary structures (as in ‘a tent city’), roads, infrastructure, and places of business, as well as dwellings for inhabitants. (Thus, a city can be totally evacuated of humans, and still be a city.)
Then, a city can be a land, with or without inhabitants, but that did have inhabitants at one time; this city form is a moral entity in the Bible, capable of acting and reacting regarding citizens, and capable of speaking to Yehovah and hearing Yehovah. A city can sleep with false gods, entertaining those gods by prospering citizens and sojourners who bring, make, and use false gods.
A city (referring to citizens) consists of both those who are permanent residents with permanent citizenship and sojourners. Those sojourners, in Yehovah’s view, are part of that city.
The daughters of a city are the suburbs of that city (when not referring to human women).
15. j) Why, then, doesn’t Yehovah destroy only the inhabitants, and preserve the city, its buildings, the land, its fields, its animals, etc., if the city calls out to Yehovah because of the violence?
Were Yehovah to only destroy the inhabitants, and leave the rest, other groups of humans would most certainly come and take the places of the prior inhabitants, calling out to the gods of the prior inhabitants. This is even what occurs in archaeological digs that are thorough and thoroughly researched: humans, hearing of the practices and seeing the objects, are too often drawn to the same deities and practices, restarting what was destroyed. Demons are quite willing to help.
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