Guntarioism: Genesis Chapter 19

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Gen 19:1

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground: These are the two angels that had been with Jesus earlier (Gen 18:1-33). Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom because that was the hub where the important people of a city would gather. The gates were where business was conducted, disputes settled, etc. It's not clear why Lot engaged with the two angels, but most likely, Lot was practicing the highly important custom of hospitality. It's also possible that Lot knew they were coming because they had just left Abraham. The bowing was customary.

Gen 19:2

And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square.": Lot offers to put them up in his house for the night, but the angels refuse.

Gen 19:3

But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.: Lot insisted because he knew the danger the two angels were in. Lot must not have realized that they were angels because angels are able to defend themselves from humans. They need no protection by us. Lot prepared a feast for them, including unleavened bread. There's only speculation why the bread was unleavened, but it's probably due to expediency.

Gen 19:4

Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.: Lot bringing these angels into his house made him a target. No doubt the people of Sodom didn't like Lot already, and here was an excuse to rough him up. They must have known that Lot was righteous and that these actions would not be sanctioned by him.

Gen 19:5

And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.": First, this is disgusting. Second, this is disgusting. From this, we have the word sodomize. These people, when they showed up were not quiet about their intent. They called to Lot, or in other words, shouted very loudly for him. There was no shame. These people were completely depraved.

Gen 19:6

So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him: Lot puts himself between the crowd and his guests.

Gen 19:7

and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!: Lot pleads with them not to do what they want. It's wickedness.

Gen 19:8

See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.": And we see now one of the most shameful verses in the Bible. I cannot see how Lot calls what the people in Sodom want to do wickedness, but then he himself turns around and offers up his own daughters! That's wickedness too. And, I may even say that what Lot did toward his daughters is more wicked. At least the guilt would be on the people in Sodom, not on Lot, but with Lot offering up his daughters, the guilt would be on Lot. Disgusting behavior. But this is what God has to deal with. We are all terrible people. God's grace is truly sufficient, and unwarranted. It's truly a gift that we have in no way earned.

Gen 19:9

And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.: Instead of listening, now the people of Sodom get angry at Lot and accuse him of judging them. Things haven't changed in all these thousands of years. The evil doers, when called out, will incite people against the one calling out the wickedness. And the Sodomites were going to attack Lot.

Gen 19:10

But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.: These men are the angels that were with Jesus when they were speaking with Abraham earlier. Now they have to protect Lot from the Sodomites.

Gen 19:11

And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.: It's clear from this verse that it wasn't just the rabble that came to sodomize the two angels. I do wonder if they would have continued with this evil act if they knew who it was they were dealing with. My guess is that they wouldn't have stopped, even if they knew it was angels. To stop the people of Sodom, the angels blinded them. You'd think that the people would stop once blinded, but apparently, they just kept on coming! Now, that is depraved.

Gen 19:12

Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place!: These men (angels) now tell Lot to get his family out of Sodom. The people of Sodom were blinded, so Lot would be able to get out.

Gen 19:13

For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.": The angels were sent by God, the Heavenly Father, to destroy Sodom. When Abraham talked with Jesus (Gen 18:32), he asked Jesus if He would destroy Sodom if He found 10 righteous people. Jesus said that He wouldn't. This means that God did not find even ten righteous people in Sodom. That's a terrible thought, but I definitely see the same trend here in America. It's 2024, and people are literally getting arrested for singing hymns.

Gen 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.: Earlier, we learned that these "sons-in-law" hadn't known his daughters (Gen 19:8), so they must have only been betrothed. Anyway, they think Lot is joking when he tells them to leave.

Gen 19:15

When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.": The angels only tell Lot to get his family out, including his wife and two daughters, but not his two sons-in-law. From the wording, "your two daughters who are here," we can infer that there were likely more than just these two daughters.

Gen 19:16

And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.: No doubt here that Lot was waiting for his sons-in-law to come, and maybe even his other daughters. But God, being merciful to Lot had the angels grab him and his family and pull them to safety. From the wording, "they brought him out and set him outside," it seems like the angels did some kind of transportation, maybe even flying them outside, or teleporting them. That is purely speculation, and there's no reason why it couldn't be interpreted that they were escorted out too. But this event was miraculous, so I tend to go with that view. It seems like Moses was trying to convey a sense of urgency from the angels, so it would seem like they would do some sort of transportation method other than running. That would take too long.

Gen 19:17

So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.": "... when they had brought them outside, that he said," is a strange translation. The .NET translation notes say that it could be rendered, "... when they had brought them outside, one of them said." That certainly seems like a better translation. However, even the .NET uses "they said" instead of "one of them said." Lot is told to flee to the mountains, and to not look back. Why? Because the looking back is a longing for this world, the things of this world.

Gen 19:18

Then Lot said to them, "Please, no, my lords!: The angels tell Lot to flee to the mountains, but Lot wants to flee elsewhere.

Gen 19:19

Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die: Lot acknowledges that the angels saved him, but believes that the calamity befalling Sodom will kill Lot along with the people of Sodom if he flees to the mountains. "... lest some evil," should probably be written, "lest this evil." The .NET translation words it, "But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die."

Gen 19:20

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”: Lot is asking to go to the town named Bela, just east of Sodom. His reasoning is that it's a small town.

Gen 19:21

And he said to him, "See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.: The language here is interesting in that the speaker says, "I have favored you." Angels don't do that. Only God makes the decisions, so it's possible that Jesus returned and is talking to Lot. Either way, the decision is made that the city Bela (which is renamed to Zoar) is not destroyed.

Gen 19:22

Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.: The name Zoar means small. It's not clear why the name was Bela before, but it could be named after the founder. Notice also that the judgement would not come until Lot was safely out of the way. Yes, this is definitely a pattern that points to a pre-tribulation rapture.

Gen 19:23

Gen 19:24

Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.: We're not sure what exactly the fire and brimstone were, but it could have been raining pitch which was ignited by lightening. Whatever it was, it was sent by the LORD himself, or Jehova.

Gen 19:25

So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground: God destroyed all the cities except for Zoar, including vegitation, and all the people. The idea is that the fertile land was turned into an inhospitable land.

Gen 19:26

But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.: This wasn't a simple look. The look betrays her longing, which is in essence, her sinning against God by disobeying a direct command. They were told not to look back, but his wife looked back anyway. Jesus points to this event when He talks about how it will be when He returns. Jesus says not to look back, and to remember Lot's wife (Luk 17:28-32). I've heard people say that the destruction brought by God upon Sodom was so terrible that the heat turned her into salt. There is no indication of this, and it's not even a natural process. We will never know how it happened, only that it did.

Gen 19:27

And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.: This is referring to the place where Abraham talked to Jesus and interceded for Sodom (Gen 18:22-33). It appears that the reason he went back to this place was to see how God dealt with Sodom.

Gen 19:28

Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.: And here's Abraham's answer. There weren't even ten righteous in Sodom. No doubt here that Abraham was praying for Lot.

Gen 19:29

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.: This is just a summary of the events. Think of "And it came to pass" as "In summary."

Gen 19:30

Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.: It's not clear why Lot was afraid, but he ended up leaving Zoar and heading to the mountains. In the next verse, Lot's daughters think that there are no men left on Earth, so maybe they left Zoar because everyone had fled. Whatever the reason, they ended up going to where they were told to go at first by the Angels.

Gen 19:31

Now the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.: People try to make these daughters into stepdaughters, but I don't see it. Either way, this is a disturbing story. Lot's daughters think that the Earth was destroyed. They had just left Zoar, so there must not have been anyone there.

Gen 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.": The daughters devise a plan to rape their father. Their plan is to get him drunk, then rape him.

Gen 19:33

So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.: They actually went through with the plan! The daughters got him so drunk that he didn't know the eldest daughter raped him.

Gen 19:34

It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, "Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.": You might think that after getting away with it the first time, the daughters would realize they were doing evil and stop, but their morals had been so diminished from living in Sodom that they plan to do it to Lot again on the second night.

Gen 19:35

Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.: And they follow through with it again! The daughters got Lot drunk again on the second night, and the younger daughter rapes him this time.

Gen 19:36

Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.: Disturbing. But you have to love the fact that God includes our failings in His Word. We are what we are, and it isn't good. I'm thankful that God presents an accurate picture of humans so we can understand His grace. This is how much God loves us, that even in this state, He sent Jesus to die for our sins.

Gen 19:37

The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.: The Moabites lived around the Dead Sea, all the way to Mount Gilead. Ruth was a Moabite, and we get a book named after her. Jesus's lineage also includes Moab blood. Moab's chief god was Chemosh, but it doesn't seem like there's much difference between Chemosh and Molech because they both demanded human sacrifice.

Gen 19:38

And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.: Ammon is the father of the Ammonites. The Ammonites went to the north, but it's not certain where their exact location was. Their god was Molech, and Molech certainly demanded human sacrifice.

Genesis Chapter 19

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