Judgment and
Rescue
Genesis 19:15-26 –
New International Version (NIV)
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying,
“Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be
swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of
his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As
soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!
Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or
you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your
servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me
in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will
overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough
to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then
my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I
will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there
quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the
town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the
land. 24 Then the Lord
rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus
he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in
the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s
wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
When did the
angels urge Lot to take his wife and two daughters away (verse 15)?
What did the
angels do when Lot hesitated (verse 16)?
Where were Lot,
his wife and daughters to flee to (verse
17)?
How did Lot
respond (verse 18)?
What did Lot think
would overtake him in the mountains (verse 19)?
In your opinion,
why did Lot think that a very small town would be safer (verse 20)?
How did the angel
respond to Lot’s request (verse 21)?
Why was Lot
supposed to flee there quickly (verse 22)?
Where was the sun
when Lot reached Zoar (verse 23)?
What rained down
on Sodom and Gomorrah (verse 24)?
What was destroyed
(verse 25)?
When did Lot’s
wife become a pillar of salt (verse 26)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
Luke 17:26-37 - New
International Version (NIV)
26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in
the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking,
marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then
the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and
drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But the
day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them
all.
30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is
revealed. 31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with
possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field
should go back for anything. 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever
tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will
preserve it. 34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in
one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women
will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
37 “Where, Lord?” they asked.
He
replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”
What will it be
like in the “days of the Son of Man” (verse
26)?
How long did people eat, drink and marry (verse
27)?
How was it in the
days of Lot (verse 28)?
When did fire and
sulfur rain down from heaven and destroy Sodom (verse 29)?
What will it be
like on the day the Son of Man is revealed (verse 30)?
In your opinion,
why should no one “who is on the
housetop, with possessions inside” go down to get them (verses 31 and 32)?
Who will lose
their life (verse 33)?
In your opinion,
why will “whoever loses their life”
preserve it (verse 33)?
What will happen
to the two people in one bed (verse 34)?
What will happen to the two women grinding
grain together (verse 35)?
In your opinion, what does Jesus mean when
He says “where there is a dead body,
there the vultures will gather” (verse 37)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, will the ones that are
taken, as foretold by Jesus in Luke 17:26-37, be taken by the hands as Lot and
his wife and daughters were in Genesis 19:15-26?
1 Thessalonians
5:16-24 - New International Version (NIV)
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give
thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat
prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what
is good, 22 reject every kind of evil.
23 May God
himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole
spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
In
your opinion, what does it mean to rejoice always (verse 16)?
What does Paul instruct us to do “continually” (verse 17)?
How should we react “in all circumstances” (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what does it mean that we
should “not quench the Spirit” (verse
19)?
How should prophecies not be treated (verse 20)?
What should be tested (verse 21)?
How should evil be treated (verse 22)?
What does Paul pray for the “God of peace” to do (verse 23)?
What does Paul pray for “your whole spirit, soul and body”
(verse 23)?
How does Paul describe “the one who calls you” (verse 24)?
What will “the one who calls you” do (verse 24)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, why does Paul pray for
the God of peace to “sanctify you through
and through” in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 while the world eats and drinks,
buys and sells, plants and builds as Jesus warns in Luke 17:26-37?
In your opinion, what does Lot’s wife
looking back in Genesis 19:15-26 show about her testing and holding on to the
good and rejecting the evil as instructed by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24?
2 Peter 2:4-9 –
New International Version (NIV)
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent
them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if
he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly
people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if
he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and
made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and
if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct
of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day
after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and
heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the
godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of
judgment.
How did God treat the angels when they sinned (verse 4)?
Who did God bring the flood on (verse 5)?
Who did God protect when He brought the
flood (verse 5)?
What are the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
an example of (verse 6)?
Who did God rescue from Sodom and Gomorrah
(verse 7)?
What does God know how to do for the godly
(verse 9)?
What does God know how to do for the
unrighteous (verse 9)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how
do the instructions that Paul gives in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 help us to
understand what it means when Peter says the Lord knows how to “rescue the godly from trials” in 2
Peter 2:4-9?
In your opinion, how is knowing that
Jesus, who said in Luke 17:26-37 that one would be taken and the other would be
left, is also the Lord who “knows how to
rescue the godly from trials” according to 2 Peter 2:4-9 is a comfort?
In your opinion, what
can we learn from the fact that Lot, when commanded to leave by the angels in
Genesis 19:15-26, hesitated but was rescued anyway by the One who Peter says in
2 Peter 2:4-9 did not spare the angels or the ancient world or the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah?
In your opinion, how do these passages
from Genesis, Luke, 1 Thessalonians, and 2 Peter help us to prepare for the day
of judgment?
In your opinion, what do these passages
show us about ourselves today?
Next, back to 2 Peter 2:10 –
(sprucewhispers.blogspot.com)
No comments:
Post a Comment