Genesis 19 | Greg Opean
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Greg Opean
Genesis 19 | Pastor Greg
This Chapter unfolds as a sobering cautionary tale as two angels enter Sodom and Lot hastens to host them. A violent mob surrounds his house and demands the visitors, so the angels pull Lot inside, strike the men with blindness, and command him to flee at once. His sons in law laugh off the warning and Lot himself lingers, but mercy takes him by the hand and leads his family out, and while fire and brimstone fall on the plain, his wife looks back longingly and becomes a pillar of salt. Abraham’s intercession is honored as Lot is spared, but compromise bears its own bitter harvest as his daughters, shaped by Sodom’s brokenness, intoxicate their father and conceive Moab and Ammon, and yet even there grace refuses to quit since Ruth the Moabitess will be grafted into the line of David and ultimately Jesus. The message lands with weight yet hope: we are called to goodness; therefore, we should leave the city of sin rather than linger at its gate, and live in the light where fellowship is honest and cleansing is continuous.