'BUSINESS AS USUAL'
(The Days of Lot)
The Lord Jesus Christ's prophecy
concerning the Days of Noah in Luke 17 was immediately followed by this
statement:
"Likewise,
also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son
of man is revealed."(Luke 17:28-30)
Here, again, the Lord foretells the
'Business as Usual' attitude of the unbeliever during the time right before He
comes to rapture His church. His
description of that day shows that the normal activities of the average person
will go on as though nothing out of the ordinary is about to happen revealing
the 'thief in the night' (I Thessalonians
5:2) is also testimony to the fact of the indifference and hardness of
heart of this wicked generation that will continue on it's merry way in the
face of vile and heinous sins being performed on every side without protest!
Additional information on the days of Lot
is found in Genesis 18, 19. The Lord reveals to Abraham (Lot's uncle) 'the cry of Sodom
(Lot's hometown) and Gomorrah
is great, and because their sin is very grievous' (Genesis 18:20). Just as ‘the blood of Abel cried to God from the ground (Genesis 4:10)
causing God to take action against Cain, Abel's murderer, the 'cry of Sodom and Gomorrah' came up to
heaven into the ears of God because of their grievous sin.
The Lord, with two of His angels, visits
Abraham and his wife Sarah, and after Abraham successfully intercedes with God
on behalf of his nephew Lot, the two angels proceed to carry out the rescue of
Lot and his family from the coming destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah caused by
God's fiery judgment.
The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah become
evident when the angels, who are met by Lot and taken to his home, are sought
out 'by the men of the city, even the men
of Sodom' (Genesis 19:4) who wanted to 'know
them.' (Genesis 19:5) This word 'know'
refers to the desire for the perverted sexual relations these men wanted to
engage in with the two angels.
The Sodomites openly approached Lot concerning these complete strangers, the two angels,
and boldly, under no uncertain terms, let their perverted homosexual intentions
be known. They violently tried to enter Lot's home coming 'near to break the door' (19:9), and although they were
supernaturally blinded by the angels, their lustful desires drove them to
continue to try 'to find the door'
(19:11) of Lot's house in an attempt to
satisfy their inordinate, wicked passions!
Although Lot, his wife and two daughters
escaped the next morning, Lot's attempt to
save his daughter's husbands was in vain due to his lack of credibility in the
eyes of his sons in law. Lot had no authority with them and they died with the
multitudes when 'the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' (19:25)
The Days of Lot demonstrate the following
conditions:
1. God's people deeply involved in politics (Genesis 19:1)
1. God's people deeply involved in politics (Genesis 19:1)
2. Streets
of the cities unsafe (19:2, 3)
3. Sodomy widespread
among all people (19:4)
4. God's
people identify with sinners (19:7)
5. God's people willing
to sacrifice family (19:8)
6. Sodomites
demonstrate violence (19:9-11)
7. God's people without
credibility (19:14)
All of these ungodly conditions described
above are prevalent in our society at this very moment! The extent of their
prevalence might not be at quite the same magnitude as in Lot’s day, but, it is
obvious, by the 'Business as Usual' attitude of the lost and saved alike, that
we are very close to the execution of God's judgment, which is the Day of the
Lord!
However, we, the born-again the Bible way
believers, the saints, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have been
promised deliverance from this time of fiery destruction (I Thessalonians 5:9)!
Just the way Lot and his family, and Noah and his family, were supernaturally rescued
from danger the same day judgment fell, so too we will be taken out of the
sphere of danger by ‘the blessed hope’
(Titus 2:13), which is the Rapture of God's people!
This 'Business as Usual' attitude which
says everything is fine, this widespread unawareness of the impending danger of
God's judgment will be prevalent and will contaminate the thinking of the
lost people and the religious
alike. Jesus said when these conditions
prevail His Coming to Rapture the saints and same day, 'Day of the Lord'
judgment is near! Just as it was in the
days of Noah and in the days of Lot 'so shall it also be in the days of the Son
of man.'
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