God Rescues Lot
Gen 19:1  And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground, 
Gen 19:2  and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant’s house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street. 
Gen 19:3  But he urgently pressed on them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 
Gen 19:4  But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. 
Gen 19:5  And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. 
Gen 19:6  And Lot went out to the door to them, and shut the door after him. 
Gen 19:7  And he said, I pray you, brothers, do not act evilly. 
Gen 19:8  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof. 
Gen 19:9  And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to stay, and must he judge always? Now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to breaking the door. 
Gen 19:10  But the men put out their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 
Gen 19:11  And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 
Gen 19:12  And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone here besides yourself? Bring your sons-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place. 
Gen 19:13  For we will destroy this place because great is the cry of them before the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. 
Gen 19:14  And Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up and get out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons-in-law. 
Gen 19:15  And when the dawn rose up, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 
Gen 19:16  And he lingered, the angel laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters (Jehovah being merciful to him), and they brought him forth and set him outside the city. 
Gen 19:17  And it happened when they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed. 
Gen 19:18  And Lot said to them, Oh no, Lord, 
Gen 19:19  please now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy, which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die. 
Gen 19:20  Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 
Gen 19:21  And He said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. 
Gen 19:22  Hurry and escape there! For I cannot do anything till you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 
God Destroys Sodom
Gen 19:23  The sun had risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Zoar. 
Gen 19:24  Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from Jehovah out of the heavens. 
Gen 19:25  And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 
Gen 19:26  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 
Gen 19:27  And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before Jehovah. 
Gen 19:28  And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the lands of the plain, and saw, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 
Gen 19:29  And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. 
Lot and His Daughters
Gen 19:30  And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him. For he feared to live in Zoar, and he and his two daughters lived in a cave. 
Gen 19:31  And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 
Gen 19:32  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father. 
Gen 19:33  And they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father. And he did not notice when she lay down nor when she arose. 
Gen 19:34  And it happened on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and you go in and lie down with him so that we may preserve seed of our father. 
Gen 19:35  And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him. And he did not notice when she lay down nor when she arose. 
Gen 19:36  So both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 
Gen 19:37  And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 
Gen 19:38  And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

Prayer – Desiring Sin

Lord,
We learn from the Men of Sodom
And Lot’s daughters
that by desiring sin, our sight gets impaired
There is a loss of vision, we are dazzled into confusion
We can no longer distinguish between right and wrong
The vilest acts become acceptable
Holy Spirit help me to keep the Word in my heart
So that it will preserve me from desiring sin
When I am weak be strong in me!

In Jesus’ name
Amen

Sodom en Gomorra word uitgewis
1Daardie aand het die twee engele by Sodom aangekom. Lot het juis in die poort van Sodom gesit. Toe hy hulle sien, het hy opgestaan om hulle te ontmoet. Hy het hulle verwelkom en laag voor hulle gebuig. 2“Menere,” sê hy, “kom gerus saam na my huis toe. Daar kan u u voete was en my gaste vir die nag wees. Môre-oggend kan u weer vroeg op pad wees.”
“Nee, dankie,” antwoord hulle, “ons sal die nag sommer hier op die stadsplein deurbring.”
3Maar Lot het daarop aangedring sodat hulle uiteindelik ingewillig het om saam te gaan. Hy het ’n groot feesmaal voorgesit met ongesuurde brood en hulle het dit geëet. Ná die ete, 4toe hulle begin klaarmaak om te gaan slaap, het al die mans van Sodom, oud en jonk, van oor die hele stad saamgekom en die huis omsingel. 5Hulle skree vir Lot: “Waar is die mans wat die nag by jou deurbring? Bring hulle uit sodat ons seksueel met hulle kan verkeer!”
6Lot het uitgegaan, die deur agter hom toegemaak en met hulle gepraat. 7“Asseblief, my broers,” het hy gesoebat, “moenie so ’n bose ding doen nie. 8Kyk, ek het twee dogters, albei nog maagde. Ek sal hulle buitentoe bring. Doen met hulle wat julle wil, maar los hierdie mans uit, want hulle is onder my beskerming.”
9“Staan opsy!” het hulle geskree. “Jy het as vreemdeling tussen ons kom woon en nou wil jy vir ons kom sê wat óns moet doen! Ons sal jou nog slegter behandel as vir hulle.” Hulle het Lot begin vasdruk en nadergekom om die deur af te breek. 10Maar die twee engele het hulle arms uitgesteek, Lot ingetrek en die deur gegrendel. 11Toe het hulle al die mans van Sodom buite die huis verblind sodat hulle die deur nie kon kry nie.
12“Het jy enige ander bloedverwante hier in die stad?” vra die engele. “Kry hulle uit hierdie plek uit, of dit nou skoonseuns, seuns, dogters of wie ook al is. 13Ons gaan hierdie plek heeltemal verwoes omdat die mense so sondig is. Daarom het die Here ons gestuur om die plek te verwoes.”
14Lot is toe vinnig na sy dogters se aanstaande mans om hulle te vertel: “Maak gou, gaan uit die stad uit! Die Here gaan dit verwoes!” Maar die jong mans het gedink hy maak ’n grap.
15Teen dagbreek die volgende dag het die engele by hulle aangedring: “Maak gou! Neem jou vrou en twee dogters wat by jou is uit hierdie plek, anders sal die verwoesting van die stad julle ook tref.”
16Toe Lot nog talm, gryp die engele sy hand en dié van sy vrou en twee dogters, en lei hulle haastig uit die stad uit, want die Here was hulle genadig. 17Buite die stad waarsku een van die engele: “Vlug vir julle lewe! Moet nêrens in die vlakte gaan stilstaan nie! En moenie omkyk nie! Vlug na die berge, anders sal julle doodgaan.”
18“Ag nee tog, Menere,” pleit Lot. 19“Julle was nou so goed om my lewe te red en het ook guns aan my betoon. Maar ek sal nie die berge haal nie. Die ramp sal my inhaal en ek sal doodgaan. 20Kyk, hier naby is ’n klein dorpie. Laat my asseblief tog daarheen vlug. Kyk net hoe klein is dit! Dan sal my lewe gespaar word.”
21“Goed,” sê die engel, “ek sal aan jou versoek voldoen. Ek sal die klein dorpie spaar. 22Maar maak gou om daar te kom, want ek kan niks doen voordat jy daar is nie.” Van toe af is die klein dorpie Soar genoem.
23Net toe die son opkom, het Lot by die dorpie aangekom. 24Toe het die Here vuur en brandende swael uit die hemel op Sodom en Gomorra laat neerreën. 25Hy het hierdie stede en hulle omgewing totaal verwoes met al hulle inwoners en die plante en die diere. 26Agter hom het Lot se vrou omgekyk en toe in ’n soutpilaar verander.
27Dié oggend het Abraham vroeg opgestaan en hom gehaas na die plek waar hy by die Here gestaan het. 28Hy het oor die vlakte uitgekyk in die rigting van Sodom en Gomorra. Daar sien hy net rookkolomme optrek oor die hele gebied, soos rook uit ’n steenoond. 29Maar God het Abraham se versoek onthou en Lot gered uit die verwoesting van die stede in die vlakte waar hy gewoon het.
30Na ’n tyd het Lot weggegaan uit Soar omdat hy bang was vir die inwoners. Hy gaan woon toe saam met sy dogters in ’n grot in die berge.
31Op ’n dag sê die ouer dogter vir haar suster: “Ons pa word nou oud. Daar is nêrens in hierdie omgewing ’n man met wie ons kan trou nie. 32Kom ons maak hom dronk met wyn en dan slaap ons by hom. Op so ’n manier kan ons deur ons pa ’n nageslag laat voortleef.”
33Hulle het toe so gemaak. Daardie aand het hulle hom met wyn dronk gemaak en die ouer dogter het by haar pa gaan slaap. Hy was onbewus daarvan dat sy kom lê het of dat sy opgestaan het.
34Die volgende oggend sê sy toe vir haar suster: “Ek het laas nag by ons pa geslaap. Kom ons maak hom vanaand weer dronk met wyn en dan gaan jy in om by hom te slaap. Op so ’n manier kan ons deur ons pa ’n nageslag laat voortleef.”
35Hulle het hom toe daardie aand weer dronk gemaak, en die jonger dogter het ingegaan en by hom gaan slaap. Soos die vorige keer, was hy onbewus daarvan dat sy kom lê het of dat sy opgestaan het. 36Op hierdie manier het albei dogters van Lot swanger geword by hulle pa.
37Toe die ouer dogter ’n seun in die wêreld bring, het sy hom Moab genoem. Hy het die stamvader geword van die volk wat nou as die Moabiete bekend staan.
38Toe die jonger dogter geboorte gee aan ’n seun, het sy hom Ben-Ammi genoem. Hy het die stamvader geword van die volk wat nou bekend is as die Ammoniete.

Gebed – Die begeerte van Sonde

Here,
Ons leer by die manne van Sodom
En Lot se dogters
dat deur sonde te begeer, ons sig verswak word
Daar is ‘n verlies aan visie, ons word verblind in verwarring
Ons kan nie meer onderskei tussen reg en verkeerd nie
Die slegste dade word aanvaarbaar
Heilige Gees help my om die Woord in my hart te hou
Sodat dit my sal bewaar van die begeerte na sonde
Wanneer ek swak is, wees sterk in my!

In Jesus naam
Amen