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Friday, July 9 2010
One day, the LORD God (who was later born as Jesus Christ - see the Fact Finder question below) and two angels appeared, as men, to Abraham.
"8:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.And they said, So do, as thou hast said." (Genesis 18:1-5 KJV)
"The LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous"
The purpose of the appearance of the LORD was because He and the two angels were on their way to Sodom - to destroy it if "they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me."
"18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way." (Genesis 18:16 KJV)"18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know." (Genesis 18:20-21 KJV)
Abraham then became concerned because his nephew Lot had foolishly become a resident of the city (Genesis 13:10-13). When Abraham persisted with his pleading to spare the city if only a few righteous people could be found there (i.e. Abraham's nephew Lot, and Lot's wife and two daughters), the LORD remained to talk with him, while the two angels left for Sodom.
"18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" (Genesis 18:22-23 KJV)18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place." (Genesis 18:32-33 KJV)
The attempted assault of the two angels by the men of Sodom is well-known (Genesis 19:1-13), but what is not often realized is that if the LORD had not been delayed by Abraham, the LORD would have also been forced to defend Himself from the assault of the Sodomites ("18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know" Genesis 18:21 KJV). Nevertheless, after leaving Abraham, and seeing the perversion that the men of the city had tried to do to the two angels, it was Christ, "the LORD God," who rained fire and brimstone down upon Sodom.
"19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground." (Genesis 19:24-25 KJV)"19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace." (Genesis 19:27-28 KJV)
Fact Finder: How do we know, from the Word of God, that it was "the LORD God," Who later was born as Jesus Christ, Who destroyed Sodom? How do we know that it was the Christ Who was sent by The Father to do the work from the time of Creation?
See Christ The Creator, 'The God Of The Old Testament' and 'Before Abraham Was, I AM'
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This Day In History, July 9
118: Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
455: Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.
1228: Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, died. It was Langton who formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters in the late 1100s - the original Scriptures had no "chapters and verses."
1386: In the Swiss-Swabian wars, Leopold III and his 6,000-strong Austrian army were defeated by a force of 1,600 Swiss pikemen at the battle of Sempach in a display of superior tactics.
1540: The marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife, was annulled by an Anglican convocation (with Henry as the self-appointed head of the Church of England, his annulment request was sure to be "granted").
1686: The League of Augsburg was formed with the alliance of the Holy Roman Emperor, Spain, Sweden and Saxony against the French King Louis XIV.
1790: The Swedish navy captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
1810: Holland was annexed by Napoleon after Louis Napoleon, his brother, abdicated from the throne.
1816: Argentina's independence from Spain was declared at the Congress of Tucuman.
1850: President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 55. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
1900: The Commonwealth of Australia was established, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
1944: After a month-long battle, British and Canadian forces captured most of the town of Cain in France.
1960: 7 year old Roger Woodward became the first person to survive an accidental fall over Niagara Falls.
1979: Voyager 2 encountered the Jupiter system after nearly 2 years of sailing through interplanetary space.
