Hey, this is a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

I'm Shelby and I'm here with Scott.

We are making our way through the book of Genesis,

which has been such a joy so far.

I'm learning new things, being reminded of old things.

Today we're in chapters 19 through 21 and we see lot rescued.

We see Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed and we see the birth of Isaac. So as we've said in many episodes

so far, a lot going on here. There's a lot that happens in these chapters, Shelby. Yeah. Will you walk us

through it, Scott? Yeah. I want to go back first just to chapter 18, which we talked about yesterday, but,

you know, I've heard this a lot, and I'm sure you have to, just this idea that in the Old

Testament God is just this very vengeful, wrathful God who's kind of easily set off and

walking around looking to smite different

people. But, you know, Shelby, the more time I spend in the Old Testament, the more I see that that

is just not at all who God is at all. And I think the end of chapter 18 is a good example of that,

that conversation we talked about yesterday

between Abraham and God about Sodom and Gomor. And you know, it says that the outcry

against Sodom and Gamor is immense and their sin is extremely serious. And so God says he's going

to go down to see if what they've done justifies the cry that's

come up to me.

And if not, I'll find out.

And what some commentators have pointed out is, it's like God's on a fact-finding mission here. He's coming to check out Sodom. He's heard it to a wicked city. He's going to see if it's true. And so we talked about this a couple episodes ago. I think once again you just see God being very calm and collected.

It's like, I've heard bad things.

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