Today's reading is a mixture of events...some strange, as they continue to tell the story of Abraham's life and journey.
Read Genesis 19, 20, 21
The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is legendary. What's perhaps not clear is "why". Lots of speculations have been given, but it remains something in the justice of God that relates back to their depravity and seems to imply from the text the sexual perversion of the whole area.
What perhaps is even more important in the story is the offspring of Lot that emerge at the end of the chapter. The Ammonites and Moabites were two of Israel's great enemies.
The birth of Isaac - whose name means laughter - almost appears quietly in the text, surrounded by stories of Abraham's journeys through the area of the Philistines.
This section along with what lies after highlights this ongoing story of the principle character of Genesis.
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Read Genesis 19, 20, 21
The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is legendary. What's perhaps not clear is "why". Lots of speculations have been given, but it remains something in the justice of God that relates back to their depravity and seems to imply from the text the sexual perversion of the whole area.
What perhaps is even more important in the story is the offspring of Lot that emerge at the end of the chapter. The Ammonites and Moabites were two of Israel's great enemies.
The birth of Isaac - whose name means laughter - almost appears quietly in the text, surrounded by stories of Abraham's journeys through the area of the Philistines.
This section along with what lies after highlights this ongoing story of the principle character of Genesis.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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