Insightful Musings on the Scriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Good morning, dear people.
Becki read to me a weather report last night that announced the probability of some snow on the ground this morning. But the temp that I saw on our outside thermometer was closer to 50 than to 30. It’s wet and windy…and still quite dark. Becki and I will strike out for another round of exercise in a few minutes.
There sure is a lot of sex going on in these chapters. Much of it is in the vein of perverse. As ancient, universal, and powerful as this drive is, the Biblical warning cannot be over-stressed—“Flee from sexual immorality!” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 18)…like you would flee from a 30-foot aggressive rattle snake!
In this regard, are we not living in a virtual Sodom and Gomorrah? We could get carried away…stacking up some of the abundant evidence to support this fact.
Time to go…and get on with the day. And here’s Becki…
Love, Dad/Ray
These were instructions given by an angel to Lot, his wife, and their two daughters prior to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Taking into account the Biblical scheme of things, they are instructions appropriately applied to us today prior to earth’s impending destruction.
FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES! Everything on planet earth is terminal. None of us are getting out of here alive (short of participating in a rapture). “Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat” (2 Peter 3:11-12). “But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness” (1 Timothy 6:11).
DON’T LOOK BACK! “Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God’” (Luke 9:62).
FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS! “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross (Mount Calvary), scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart” (Hebrews 12:1-3).