Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah — Chuck Missler

This is the 15th study in the book of Genesis conducted by Chuck Missler. The subject of this tape, Genesis chapters 19 through 21. Before we start the study,.

I'd like to share with you some secular information from time to time. You know, this is, after all, a course in prophecy, or a study in prophecy. It isn't a course, really, just a discussion or exploration.

And our interest in the book of Genesis indeed is as a book of prophecy. So our treatment or relationship with the book is perhaps a little different than some of you who may have studied the book before.

And it's in our interest in prophecy, broadly, that I will from time to time share with you some things that doesn't necessarily relate to the lesson at the moment. And as you probably know from time to time, I do receive a lot of interesting, I'm on a lot of interesting mailing lists, and I also get some intelligence news wires.

And from time to time, we'll share some of those things. But tonight, I'm going to share with you something from one of the most common periodicals that's available to a businessman. And I think some of you may know, even though we get into sort of specialized biblical studies, my background personally, my vocation is as a businessman.

And as a businessman, I should point out to you, the Bible is like business. It's not what you know, it's who you know. And thank you. Had to work that in. But most businessmen are, you know, if I was going to share with you something about prophecy from the Rough Times newsletter, or the Smoot Report, or any of a half a dozen scare letters, I shouldn't call them that, but letters that tend to be alarmist by nature, you wouldn't be surprised.

But I have here in front of me something that I'd like to read a little bit from, which is a publication known as the Kiplinger Washington Letter. How many of you are familiar with the Kiplinger Letter?

Okay, those of you that are know that this was started in 1923, and it's probably the most center of the road kind of advisory letter out of Washington a businessman can subscribe to, to get a sense of trends, get a sense of thinking.

So before I read the excerpt, I want to set the context that this is not from some wild-eyed guy carrying a sign on a street corner. This is from the Austin Kiplinger Washington editors. And I'm going to read from you, it's a four-page letter, and it's written in a very, very punchy style that has become famous in the journalistic world before the Kiplinger style.

But I'm going to read to you the fourth page of the Kiplinger Letter of dated September 26th, 1980 from Washington. And there's a lot of general first of all pages about the recession and costs of borrowing and what's happening in the Congress and various bills that are significant, the usual kinds of things they cover very quickly, the stock market and some other things.

Soviet Military Power and the Threat of Judgment

But I'd like to read to you because I think it's important enough. I think this is the most important letter I've received in a long time. And the back page is on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States.

And this particular letter, if you're familiar with some intelligence information, will not surprise you. What will surprise you is the source of this letter is that this is in the public domain. First paragraph, top of page, U .S. relationship, relations with Russia.

We've written you often in the past about the buildup of the Soviet military power and the threat it creates. People used to say that neither country would attack the other. We wouldn't attack the Soviets and they wouldn't dare attack us fearing that a nuclear holocaust would result tearing the world apart.

Paragraph, now this theory is being challenged and for a simple reason, the Soviets don't believe it. Turns out they never did. We thought they did because we believed it. But the top Soviet leaders have for years been building an arsenal of sophisticated nuclear weapons so as to be able to defeat the U .S. by knocking out our nuclear force, doing it without destroying the U .S. or annihilating our population.

Paragraph, how do we know this? Russian leaders brag about it frequently. U .S. military experts are privy to Soviet military reports and teachings. Furthermore, we know what they have, the basic hardware now in hand and still coming off the production lines an enormous array of weaponry.

Might they attack us? Don't know. Only the Politburo knows and the top leaders who obviously won't tip their hands to U .S. officials. All we know is that they could in a few years if they chose, they will have the capability, the force, the huge number of weapons, plus a complete system of defenses which is rapidly being deployed.

Paragraph, how would they do it? Surprise attack. Knock out our missiles in the silos, destroy our bombers on the ground and our subs in port. A carefully coordinated attack on our forces both at home and overseas could suddenly leave us almost naked.

They have our weapons targeted, our weapons, not our cities. This is a fact that is widely known. Would we retaliate with whatever stuff we had left? Maybe and maybe not. Because one, we wouldn't have much left.

And two, they would still have lots of missiles they hadn't fired. Presumably, Soviet leaders would warn us that if we tried to retaliate, they would then destroy our cities. So any president would be faced with a terrifying decision.

The alternative being surrender. Remember, this is what could happen. No one can say it will. It's a possibility. For the mid -1980s, Soviet build-up plans will be complete about 1983. Clear nuclear superiority over the U .S.

Any way out of this predicament? Yes, several, but all costly. We can take Minuteman missiles out of the silos, make them mobile so they're not easy targets. Build more, quickly. Step up production of cruise missiles and make them mobile around Russia's periphery.

Plus other measures to make our weapons less vulnerable to Soviet attack. But we must get a move on out with the Soviets. Make a strike extremely difficult and hazardous. Bluffing won't work, nor big talk.

We need to reorder our priorities way beyond any commitments heard so far from Carter, Reagan, or Anderson. They aren't facing the issue squarely. There is still time. If we roll up our sleeves and get busy, you're very truly the Kiplinger Washington editors.

September 26, 1980. Interesting letter. Interesting letter because of the influence it carries in the executive strata of American business. Not a radical paper, not a scare paper, not one to rattle sabers or what have you.

From the Kiplinger Bureau, that's a startling newsletter, I think. And I couldn't resist sharing that with you. Very interesting. Interesting from lots of points of view. It's interesting if no other point of view than Billy Graham's classic remark about America.

That if God does not judge America, he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. And there is something you can do. Obviously, it's not surprising that Kiplinger overlooked. And that's something to pray for a revival in this country.

This country is used, we're used to the arrogance and security of being number one and invulnerable. We were not touched by a war directly on our shores. It was something we exported elsewhere. And the earth's too small for that.

And we're now facing not only the prospect of it, but we're also facing a enemy that is more formidable than ourselves from a military point of view, more aggressive. And we now have good reason to believe that his intentions are preemptive.

That's a different perspective than I think generally has been held in policy circles. I think it's valid to pray for this country for lots of reasons. I think that pray for a revival because one thing that we're going to talk about tonight, who are the most important people in the world?

Who are the most important people in the world? No, no, who are the people that had to be pulled out of Sodom before the angels could do their work? The song was cute, but does carry one misleading idea.

A prerequisite condition, we're told in chapter 19, is that Lot had to get out of there before they could do anything. So we'll get into that and we'll get into a little of that. We'll jump into that shortly.

Let's start with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you this evening in awe. Father, we're just overwhelmed by the awareness that in your kingdom, there are no chances, there are no accidents, there are no coincidences.

Father, we know that you have set an appointed time for all things. And Father, we would just praise you for our redemption in Jesus Christ that you have made sure on our behalf. We thank you, Father, that you are able to deliver us from all that would harm us.

Father, we're also conscious that your timetable is in motion as we see visible evidence of the stage being set for the climax of history. And Father, we're also conscious that as you tarry, so not willing that any should perish.

Father, we're conscious that you have a ministry for each and every one of us in this room. And Father, we would just pray that you would send the Holy Spirit to illuminate that in our understanding. That you might first of all call us into the kingdom, that we might hear your call.

And Father, that you would increase an appetite in us for the things in your word. And that you might increase in us an understanding of that particular role, that particular destiny that you have for each and every one of us, if we would, but here.

Father, we ask all these things to the glory of and in the name of and the authority of Jesus Christ. Okay, we're in Genesis and we got through 18. Did we get through 19 last time? So, we did touch on 19 earlier, but we didn't really...

We did finish 18, did we not? More or less. Didn't we get into this negotiation? Now, this negotiation in chapter 18, this incident is one of the most famous ones in the Old Testament. This interesting incident under the Oaks of Mamre by Abraham entertaining these three visitors, two angels and the Lord Jesus Christ, as it's generally regarded.

Now, as the two angels go ahead, go on to their mission, which we'll pick up in chapter 19, Abraham, of course, enters into this fascinating discussion starting at verse 23 that I think we covered last time, but just by way of warm-up and review, in which he, in an ethnically characteristic way, negotiates.

You know, if there are 50 righteous, Lord, will you spare the city? And then 45 and 40, then 30, then 20, and just once more, would you believe 10, you know? And he goes through this thing. And, of course, we chuckle because we cannot but be amused at the chutzpah of Abraham to the Lord, you know, just pushing his luck, as it were.

And it turns out, not said here, is that he would spare the city not for 10, but for one. And we're going to see the one. And what we may miss is that Abraham is in a very important role here, a very important role.

He is in the role of an intercessor. Now, we hear many, many sermons or studies on intercessory prayer, but I can't recall one that starts a study of intercession with Abraham in chapter 18, but that's exactly what he's doing.

Who is he interceding on behalf of? The righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah. Now, this same idea can be traced through the Old Testament. Israel was spared at the golden calf thing, not for the sake of Israel, but Moses, who stood in the way.

Abraham's Intercession and Standing in the Gap

And just to review that, because I think it might be worth doing, turn to Exodus chapter 32, and we'll get an interesting insight about prayer that's often overlooked in studies on prayer. We're looking at Exodus 32.

Let's pick verses 9 and 10. Verse 10 is what I'm after, but verse 9, the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may burn against them, that I may consume them, that I may make of thee a great nation, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Interesting, and of course, Moses goes on to pray, but I think it's an interesting, interesting phrase that the Lord uses in verse 10. Get off my back. Let me alone. Now, in case you think I'm making a case of something, turn to Ezekiel 22, 30.

Ezekiel 22, 30. It may shock you to discover there are other chapters in Ezekiel besides 38 and 39. Ezekiel 22, the last two verses of the chapter is what I'm interested in. The Lord is saying, and I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

Therefore, have I poured out mine indignation upon them, I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. Their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God. Did Israel deserve God's wrath and judgment on more than one occasion in the Old Testament?

Why didn't he judge them on all those other occasions? Because there was a man standing in the gap. On this particular case that's alluded to here, he goes on to judge them. Why? Were they any more guilty here than before?

No, is my suggestion. Because there was no, I says, he says, you know, he looked, he sought for a man among them, but I found none. Is it possible the United States may be judged for the lack of prayer?

Is it possible the United States might be facing judgment? Not because, not just because she deserves it, because she may have deserved it from any occasion, but can we appropriate this scripture to a ministry of intercessory prayer on behalf of the people of this land?

I think so. I think so. If the Holy Spirit leads you in that way tonight and or subsequently, I call you to a prayer, a ministry of intercessory prayer on behalf of this land. It's a very interesting time to do it.

We're beset by specific enemies with specific objectives. We're also in an election year. And I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I am suggesting that there is, it's a kind of thing that God can, is he in control?

Okay, his judgment is better than ours. And I commend that to you as a point of prayer, because Nebuchadnezzar himself, he learned some interesting lessons in Daniel chapter four, as to who puts up, who sets up kings and who brings them down.

And I submit to you that God is in control. And I urge you with all the influence I might wield to consider that very heavily in terms of intercession on behalf of not just a specific person, although I don't disparage that, or even a city, but I'm going to suggest on behalf of our land.

Now, we're going to see just how significant this intercession is in chapter 19. But while I'm here, I'd like you to look ahead to verse 22 of chapter 19. We're back in Genesis, I'm sorry. In many respects, your most important verse as a student of prophecy is verse 22 of chapter 19.

The angels are speaking to Lot and they're saying, haste, escape thee, escape here. Haste thee, escape there. For I cannot do anything till thou be come there. I underlined that and I circled the word till.

I think it's a very interesting word. It's a prerequisite condition for the angels to do their thing, for Lot to be out of there. It is not a situation where, gee, Lot, because you're his nephew or because of this or because of that, we're trying to do you a favor and give you a tip.

By the way, it's going to get pretty rough here. Get out while you can. More than that. It can't happen until you get out of here. We got to get you out of here. To make my point, I'll exaggerate a little bit and say that, you know, they don't care about Lot.

They want to get the job done. That's not fair, but if you follow what I'm trying to say. Okay, let's jump into chapter 19. That is where we are. We were picking it up, right? By the way. Okay, chapter 19, verse one, and there came two angels to Sodom at evening and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom and Lot, seeing them, rose up to meet them and he bowed himself to them.

With his face toward the ground. That's interesting. How much insight Lot had as to who he was facing is something that is open to speculation. Was he just being hospitable to two obviously significant strangers?

Or did he recognize something supernatural in their demeanor? We don't know. I don't think we know. Maybe you can glean from the text an insight into that. I don't think we really know, but he obviously treats them with substantial respect.

We have a probable reference to this whole scene in the New Testament. Where we're told that many have entertained angels unawares. And if that passage refers to this incident, then we can infer that Lot may not have fully appreciated what he had on his hands until later.

But in any case, that's speculation. Let's move on. Verse two. And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet and ye shall rise up early and go your ways.

And they said, Nay, we will abide in the street all night. And of course, Lot realized Manhattan has no place for that sort of thing. And he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. Notice the broad strata that's emphasized in the text here.

It isn't just a fringe group that happened to be kind of a obnoxious minority that are going to create the problem here. It's from every quarter, old and young. That's awesome when you realize, as you probably know, what's coming.

And they called upon Lot and said unto him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door after him.

Now, somehow, the word's gotten around there's some strangers in town and that's drawn a crowd, a crowd with a pretty unseemly objective. And he said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Lot knew exactly what may be masked somewhat in our polite King James.

He knew exactly what was up. And he was offended on behalf of the strangers. We note both here and in chapter 18, the beginning of a tradition that's prevalent among Abraham and Lot and honored, especially by the Arab world even this day, a concept of hospitality of the stranger that is so deep as to be awesome.

That concept is rooted in that culture so deep that it's, until you've experienced it, you can't begin to understand what kind of protection you enjoy as a stranger under the roof. Of a proper Bedouin or whomever, several others.

But anyway, so Lot goes out there and he doesn't want, you know, these strangers are under his protection. Now, the extent to which Lot goes is rather staggering. Listen on. Behold now, verse 8, I have two daughters who have not known man.

Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you and do ye to them as is good in your eyes. Only unto these men do nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. Now note, by the way, not only they didn't seek shelter under Lot's roof, he insisted they stay there and they accepted his hospitality.

And he feels bound to protect them. How much insight he had as to who they were is enigmatic at this point. But the extremes of all, the alternatives that Lot proposed is really beyond our comprehension.

I don't think we have any insight into the interpersonal situation here. We have no real insight into the cultural background. We have no real insight into Lot's condition. It's very, very easy for us to sort of stand aloof self-righteously and be pretty tough on Lot.

Very easy to do. We forget that Peter, as we look at shortly in chapter 2, calls Lot a righteous man, vexed and grieved over the unrighteous around him. Now, on the one hand, and that's going to be important to his inner study before we're through, so I'll make that point now.

But secondly, at the same time, we can also very validly ask what was Lot doing there in the first place? Can you dwell safely in Sodom or Gomorrah as a child of God? It's a question the text raises not too subtly and leaves us to answer.

We are called to a life of separation from the world. And Lot set his tents towards the plain, then towards the city. And not only was he in the city, he was an alderman. He sat in the gate, we are told.

So he was one of the council. He was one of the men of respect within the city. In fact, you can sense that here in the study because he can go outside and lock the door behind him and deal with this crowd.

Doesn't sound like it'd be a safe move in view of the circumstances. But Lot apparently can. He's not without influence. Now, he offers them his virgin daughters. There's some indication, incidentally, the daughters were married as an apparent...

You'd want to think there's a contradiction, but they had not known a man yet. We know verse 8 in any case. But the crowd, incidentally, which even further bewildering, turns them down. Verse 9, they said, stand back.

They said again, this one fellow came into sojourn and he will needs be a judge. Now will we deal worse with thee than with them? And they pressed hard against the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

So Lot's in trouble. If you're doing this as a play or a movie, you can think of many, many similar kinds of scenes where you've got, you know, the hanging party outside and someone trying to stave off the irrational crowd and how futile it is.

You can think of many, many places where this kind of a thing has been dealt, obviously, perhaps with less, less unseemly objectives. But nevertheless, that the image, you can quickly get a mood of the thing.

And what breaks it, of course, is the intervention of Lot's two guests. Verse 10. But the men put forth their hand and pulled, now the men here is the men in the house. The men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And by the way, that phrase really bothers me. You can sort of, in your imagination, probably assume that you've got these creeps crowded around as part of their cultural situation.

They're pretty, pretty gross bunch. You can also see them press, perhaps in our imagination, press their point with Lot. But when they're collectively struck with blindness, you would think that that would put them into disarray.

You'd think that they'd figure something's up and they'd split the scene. Notice what that says. As they wearied themselves to find the door. I used to just figure, well, I broke it up and went on. But in getting at this closer for the lesson, that really hit me because even blinded by some unexplainable blindness, they're trying to find the door to get in there.

Awesome. Just awesome. I suppose you could make a big study about the occultic undertones of all of this, but I won't take the time tonight. Verse 11, and they smote the men. Oh, that's verse 12. And the men said unto Lot, hast thou here any besides?

Meaning, you know, besides your household. How many are you? Who else is here? Son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place. I wonder if this is asking Lot, not only who in his family are in his, under his covering, if you will.

I wonder if this verse is asking him for an inventory of fruit. Isn't it interesting if, be it that you're Lot and be it that you're here in this unseemly place in the first place. Isn't it rather illuminating to realize that Lot had no, zero fruit?

Well, we're going to go in there. We're going to convert him. I don't know that you do that. Abraham didn't. He separated himself. And the five kings, the four kings raided the five kings. It wasn't until Lot was taken captive that he takes his trained army that was ready at hand, already trained, interesting thing, and sends them after and frees Lot and so forth.

It's interesting that Lot here dwelling in Sodom apparently has no fruit. I think that's very interesting. Maybe that's why he's here. Then said unto Lot, Hast thou any here besides, according to your son-in-law, thy sons, thy daughters, whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place, for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has become great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

Up till now, you would think that was just a warning. Hey, because you're sort of, you've got a relationship through Abraham or yourself or whatever, we're tipping you off. It's far more significant than that.

So as we have pointed out, we'll point out more before we go. And I will submit to you that the most important people in Sodom and Gomorrah is Lot and his family. People in that category are so important that they were the subject of Abraham's intercession with the Lord.

Whether they're 50 or 45 or 40, 30, 20, 10 or one in his household. Most important people in the earth right now include the people in this room, as Luke will tell us in chapter 17 and 2 Peter develops in chapter 2.

But let's move on before we jump into that and get the sense of this. Verse 14,. And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.

But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law. In other words, the sons-in-law were not impressed. They somehow didn't think he was with it. Verse 15,. And when the morning arose, and the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters, which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, and the Lord being merciful unto him. And they brought him forth and sent him outside, set him outside of the city.

Notice that even now he's virtually forced out. Isn't it interesting how difficult it is to separate ourselves from the world even under these circumstances? Leave Los Angeles tonight, we're going to be bombed.

Oh, but gee, I've got to. And you have your long list, right? Where do you think you ought to split? Because at 11, 15 tonight or whatever, you know. Yes, but separation's difficult. Here in this case, they take the hand and they drag them out of there.

Verse 17,. And it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said, Escape for thy life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain, escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

They instruct him to go to the hills. He negotiates a compromise, which they reluctantly agree to. But they're called to the mountain. They read he wants to go to the Zora, and he later on hides in a cave, but it's a real bad scene.

But their first instruction is to escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. Verse 18,. Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my lord. Can you get over this guy? Not so, my lord. It's funny how we look at Lot and laugh, and yet don't we do the same thing?

Gee, lord, call me in the ministry as long as it's a neat place. Hawaii, you know, or whatever. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life.

And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me and I die. Verse 20, Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. In other words, he doesn't want to leave town, right?

There's something about the big city life, right? So I don't want to go out on the sticks. Here's a little town. At least it's a town, lord, you know. This city is near to flee to. It's not far away. It's a little one.

Oh, let me escape there. Is it not a little one? Holy Spirit's emphasizing that for some reason. And my soul shall live. He said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which thou hast spoken.

The town of Zohar. So they exempt the Zohar from the judgment and let him go there. Interesting. Now a lot later finds it kind of weird to be in this town surrounded by ash heaps and things. And he splits there later too.

But notice what happened here is the angels reluctantly allowed him this. Right. He said unto me, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city. What's implied is that otherwise they were going to.

There's a whole group of cities on the plane. Five of them, I believe. Sodom and Gomorrah, the two main ones. And I will not overthrow this city for which thou hast spoken. In other words, by lot going there, it was spared.

Because they were less sinful than Sodom and Gomorrah? No. No evidence of that. Might have been. We don't have any evidence of that. They're spared because Lot was there. Now what makes it so important to us is that the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 17 sets up Lot as a significant thing to study relative to the end times.

So we want to try to understand what was going on here as best we can. And verse 22, as we covered hastily, I escaped there for I cannot do anything till thou become there. Therefore, the name of the city is called Zohar, which is a word at least one root.

The root of the thing implies it just means little. Some of these city names are not 100 sure because there's several. We're really dealing with the etymological roots and it's capable of alternate renderings.

But Zohar probably means small from the previous dialogue. Verse 23, and the sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zohar. In other words, all this occurred overnight. Now we're at morning and it's actually, you know, the sun's up.

It's really daylight. Then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the ground.

But his wife, that is Lot's wife, looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. And scholars, some scholars point out there are some subtle linguistic issues here, but they're very technical and to me not that convincing.

I think most reputable scholars take this address literally. She became a pillar of salt. And the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 17, when we get into that, is going to tell you after his whole rendering, remember Lot's wife.

So whether it's literal salt or some other thing, she obviously got wiped out by looking back. You don't look back, you move. Remember what Luke 9 .62 says, no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

Strange thing. What the Lord meant in Luke 9. I'll let you, that's your homework assignment for this week. And there will be a quiz. Okay, verse 27. Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord.

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. 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 dwelt.

And Lot went up out of Zor and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zor. Some people are slow learners. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come into us after the manner of all the earth.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with the father.

And he perceived not, when she lay down, and when she arose. And it came to pass in the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in and lie with him.

That we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived not, when she lay down, or when she arose. Thus were both of the daughters of Lot with child by the father.