ABRAHAM PLEADING FOR SODOM. -- Genesis 18:23-33. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ In wrath remember mercy._ -- Habakkuk 3:2. TIME. --About B. C. 1897. PLACE. --At Abraham's encampment; near Hebron. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Genesis 13:10-13; Genesis 14:1-13; Genesis 18:1-22; James 5:1-6. LESSON ANALYSIS. --1. _Sodom Do... [ Continue Reading ]
PERADVENTURE THERE BE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS WITHIN THE CITY. Appeal is now made that the city shall be spared on account of. righteous few. He certainly hopes that at least fifty righteous persons may be found, and names this as the number. He does not merely plead that the righteous may be saved, but ple... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT? Abraham possibly may have had. vestige of doubt whether God would do right in this matter. The ancients imputed to their gods the most abominable crimes; he had been reared among idolaters, and was still surrounded by them; he had had little of our oppo... [ Continue Reading ]
II.. RIGHTEOUS MAN'S PRAYER. 26. IF. FIND IN SODOM FIFTY RIGHTEOUS... I WILL SPARE. As far as we are able to determine, this conference passed between Abraham and the superior of the three angels--either. manifestation or the representative of the Almighty. God speaks by angels, by the prophets, o... [ Continue Reading ]
PERADVENTURE THERE SHALL LACK FIVE OF THE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS. The earnestness, and at the same time the exceeding humility, of Abraham's intercession, present. worthy example to the suppliants at the throne of grace in all ages. Encouraged by the favorable answer to his first petition, he still presse... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE RIGHTEOUS THE SALT OF THE EARTH. 29.. WILL NOT DO IT FOR FORTY'S SAKE. The earnest old man keeps up his importunity. He cannot bear the thought that Sodom shall be destroyed, much less that the righteous shall be doomed with the guilty. He does not plead that the wicked shall be saved from... [ Continue Reading ]
PERADVENTURE TEN SHALL BE FOUND THERE. Knowing that in the family of Lot. knowledge of the true religion had been taught, and probably ignorant of how that family, and especially his sons-in-law and married daughters, had become demoralized by residence in Sodom, he could not suppose that there wer... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD WENT HIS WAY. Language is used that was adapted to human comprehension in the childhood of our race. It means that the celestial visitant departed. PRACTICAL AND SUGGESTIVE. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.-- Hebrews 13:2. The e... [ Continue Reading ]