Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach
l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH
Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol
ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)
Gen 19:1 And the two messengers came to Seḏom
(Canaanite city meaning ‘’burning’’) in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the
gate of Seḏom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed
himself with his face toward the ground, Gen 19:2 and he said,
“Look, please my masters, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the
night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go your way.” And they said, “No,
but let us spend the night in the open square.” Gen 19:3 But he
urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he
made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Gen
19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏom, both old
and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5
And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you
tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.” Gen 19:6 So
Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door behind him, Gen
19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil! Gen 19:8
“Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me
bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no deed to these
men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.” Gen 19:9
But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and
should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse than them.” So they
pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.Gen
19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house
with them, and shut the door. Gen 19:11 Then they struck the men who
were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they
wearied themselves to find the door. Gen 19:12 And the men said to
Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your
daughters, and whomever you have in the city – bring them out of this
place! Gen 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because
the cry against them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy it.” Gen
19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his
daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his
sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking. Gen 19:15 And when
morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Get up, take your
wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the
punishment of the city.” Gen 19:16 And while he loitered, the men
took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters,
יהוה
having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. Gen
19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he
said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the
plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.” Gen 19:18 And
Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה!
Gen
19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you
have increased your loving-commitment which you have shown me by saving my
life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and
I die. Gen 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to,
and it is small. Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and
let my life be saved?” Gen 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have
favoured you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for
which you have spoken. Gen 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not
able to do any deed until you arrive there.” So the name of the city was called
Tso‛ar. (Heb – insignificant)
YHVH Destroys
Sodom
Gen
19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso‛ar. Gen
19:24 And יהוה
rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה out of the heavens. Gen 19:25
So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and what grew on the ground. Gen 19:26 But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a post of salt. Gen 19:27 And Aḇraham
arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood
before יהוה, Gen
19:28 and he looked toward Seḏom and Amorah, and toward all the land of
the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went up like the
smoke of a furnace. Gen 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim
destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot
out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot
had dwelt.
Lot and His
Daughters
Gen
19:30 And Lot went up out of Tso‛ar and dwelt in the mountains, and his
two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tso‛ar. And he and
his two daughters dwelt in a cave. Gen 19:31 And the first-born said
to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in
to us, as is the way of all the earth. Gen 19:32 "Come, let us
make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of
our father.” Gen 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that
night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware
of it when she lay down or when she arose. Gen 19:34 And it came to
be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, “See, I lay with my
father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in
and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.” Gen 19:35
So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose
and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she
arose. Gen 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by
their father. Gen 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his
name Mo’aḇ, he is the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day. Gen 19:38
And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi, he is the
father of the children of Ammon to this day.
In Matthew 24
and Luke 17, Yahshua gave us a clear warning and indication of what this world
would be like near the time of His second coming – he saw the future of this world and it was a mirror
of what it was like back in both Noah's and Lot's day.
Mat 24:36 “But
concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the
heavens, but My Father only.h Footnote: h Mar_13:32 Mat 24:37
“And as the days of Noaḥ, so also shall the coming of the Son of Aḏam be. Mat
24:38 “For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ entered
into the ark, Gen_7:7. Mat 24:39 and they did not know
until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall the coming of the
Son of Aḏam be.
Luk 17:26 “And as it came to be in the days of
Noaḥ, so also shall it be in the days of the Son of Aḏam:
Luk 17:27 “They were eating, they were
drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that
Noaḥ went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Luk
17:28 “And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They were eating,
they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting,
they were building, Luk 17:29 but on the day Lot went out of Seḏom
it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all. Luk 17:30
“It shall be the same in the day the Son of Aḏam is revealed. Luk
17:31 “In that day, he who shall be on the house-top, and his goods in
the house, let him not come down to
take them away. And likewise the one who is in the
field, let him not turn back. Luk 17:32 “Remember the wife of
Lot. Luk 17:33 “Whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and
whoever loses his life shall preserve it.
Lessons for
the last days events :
1.
These
last days will be days of heightened demonic activity – the last three and half
year period of the final seven years of this age - Rev 9:1-11.
2.
There
appears to be three destinies for the end time believers: a) captured and
killed – Rev 2:10. b) futile armed retaliation – Mt 26:52. c) those who escape
survive and endure - Rev 3:7-13.
3.
Those
who escape will be guided to the camp of the righteous and protected:
Satan Thrown Down to Earth
Rev 12:7
And there came to be fighting in the heaven: Miḵa’ěl and his messengers fought
against the dragon. And the dragon and his messengers fought, Rev 12:8 but they were not strong enough,
nor was a place found for them in the heaven any longer. Rev 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and
Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his
messengers were thrown out with him.
Rev 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in the heaven, “Now have come the deliverance
and the power and the reign of our Elohimb and the
authority of His Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them
before our Elohim day and night, has been thrown down. Footnote: bSee Rev_11:15. Rev
12:11 “And
they overcame him because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of
their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death. Rev 12:12 “Because of this rejoice, O
heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, because the
devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little
time.”
Rev 12:13
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he persecuted the
woman who gave birth to the male child. Rev 12:14 And the woman was
given two wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, Dan_7:25, Dan_12:7 from the presence of the serpent. Rev
12:15 And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after
the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river. Rev 12:16 And
the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the
river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. Rev 12:17 And
the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of
her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah.
4.
Protection
in the last days by 144 000 – Rev 7 and Rev 14 – see also Num 31
5.
Parable
of the 10 virgins – Mat 25
6. History of Israelites serve as examples to
us:
1Co 10:11
And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to
us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,
1Co 10:12
so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.
1Co 10:13
No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is
trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but
with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear
it.
1Co 10:14
Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry.
7. The feminist
movement claim that one of the main uses of males is their sperm. They don’t
find much other uses or benefit for men. This sounds a little like the attitude
of Lots two daughters.The gay and feminist movement oppose a righteous
patriarchal society.
8.
YHVH
provides a way of escape for those who guard His covenant:
Exo 19:4 ‘You have seen what I did to the
Mitsrites, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Exo
19:5 ‘And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My
covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for
all the earth is Mine –
Exo 19:6 ‘and you shall be to Me a reign of
priests and a set-apart nation.’ Those are the words which you are to speak to
the children of Yisra’ěl.” Exo 19:7 And Mosheh came and called for
the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which יהוה
commanded him. Exo 19:8 And all the people answered together and
said, “All that יהוה has spoken we shall do.” So Mosheh brought
back the words of the people to יהוה.
Dan 12:1 “Now at
that time Miḵa’ěl shall stand up, the great head who is standing over the sons
of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since
there was a nation, until that time. And at that time your people shall be
delivered, everyone who is found written in the book,
Jer 30:4 And these are the words יהוה
spoke concerning Yisra’ěl and Yehuḏah. Jer 30:5 “For this is what יהוה
said, ‘We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Jer
30:6 Ask now, and see if a man is giving birth. Why do I see every man
with his hands on his loins like a woman in labour, and all faces turned
pale? Jer 30:7 Oh! For great is that day, there is none like it. And
it is the time of Ya‛aqoḇ’s distress, but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer 30:23 See, the storm of יהוה
shall go forth in a rage, a whirling storm! It bursts upon the head of the
wrong. Jer 30:24 The burning displeasure of יהוה
shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His
heart. In the latter days you shall understand it. b Footnote: bSee Jer_23:20.
Isa 24:3 the earth is completely emptied and
utterly plundered, for יהוה has spoken this word. Isa 24:4
The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the
haughty people of the earth shall languish. Isa 24:5 For the earth
has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the
Torot,[a] changed[b] the law, broken
the everlasting covenant.[c] Footnotes: [a]Torot - plural of
Torah - teaching. b Jer_23:36. cSee also Isa_13:9, Isa_13:11,
Isa_26:21, Isa_66:24, Mic_5:15, Zep_1:2-18.
Baruch atah YHVH,
Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam
nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you
Yahweh, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of
truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you,
YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn.