Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Today's reading covered some really sensitive topics so if you have young ears nearby

user discretion is advised. Yesterday we wrapped up with a bit of a cliffhanger. God told Abraham he was going to destroy

the cities of Sodom and Gomorah because of their wickedness, and Abraham was trying to negotiate

with God not to destroy the city of Sodom in particular because

that's where his nephew Lott lived. We know Abraham really cared for Lott because as you

may recall Abraham traveled hundreds of miles with 318 of his warrior servants to rescue lot and his family when they were kidnapped and taken hostage during a war.

So here we are today with two angels showing up in 1991, and again they appeared as human males.

We know this because that's how they're referred to in verse 10.

V. V gives us reason to believe that the human appearance they took on was probably physically attractive because the local men demanded to have sex with them.

This is another scenario where, like in Genesis 6, humans are attempting to have sex with angels, but this time it was human

males. The enemy has shifted his strategy a bit. Sodom is a city that was known for several

types of sin, and this can be a pretty

divisive subject in society today and even within the church itself. One type of

sin's Sodom was known for was homosexuality. We haven't gotten to Leviticus 1822 yet, but it uses the same Hebrew word when addressing this topic in detail.

And then again in the New Testament, Jude 7 through 8 also points to this.

But it's not fair to say that this was the sin they were known for at the time.

Ezekiel 1649 through 50 says,

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom she and her daughters were

arrogant overfed and unconcerned they did not help the poor and the needy they were

haughty and did abominable things before me.

Therefore, I did away with them, as you have seen.

We definitely see those things displayed in the way the local men of the town treated their visiting angels.

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