Re: Series of the greatest smitings in the Bible. -
05-01-2010, 07:08 AM
Part 4.
Two cities destroyed. Thousands blinded. Someone turned into a pillar of salt. Praise!
When I read this as a boy, I asked my Sunday school teacher about it. She told me that these girls thought they were the only people left in the world. The Scriptures not only contradict this, they prove the opposite.
Remember when Lot entered Zoar? He had go there before God would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. They clearly knew there were other people alive. They left because Lot was afraid to live there. Probably too many darkies.
30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
We all know what happened next. I always wondered how they got this much wine. Did they bring it with them? Was Lot grabbing as many wine kegs as he could the night of the blind people running around?
I have read somewhere else that perhaps Lot planted a vineyard and waited a couple of years. Sure they could grow grapes on a rocky mountainside, but what else could they grow? How did they sustain themselves otherwise?
It's one of those mysteries that I can't answer.
Enough waxing Biblical. I give you Lot and his daughters.
31And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
The children they bare will at first be allies God protects. Later they will be destroyed by the house of Israel.
37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
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Last edited by Levi Jones; 05-01-2010 at 08:17 AM.
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