Friday, April 24, 2020

Close kin to Israel

Genesis 19:30-38
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.  One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.  Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Close kin to Israel, these two tribes occupying land to the east of the Jordan and Dead Sea worshipped other gods and were frequently denounced by the prophets. Despite their sordid beginnings, alienation was not inevitable, as the story of Ruth makes gloriously clear.
Why?
After the disaster happened on Sodoma Lor afraid to die so he moved to the mountains. But for their heart is not God so sordid things happened and there were two tribes began, Moabites and Ammonites and became enemies of Israelite in history.
If they turn to the Lord there is a way to Lot's family, they may come to their uncle Abraham, but they did not.
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所多瑪對羅得的影響1.被城吸引、眷戀。離神何等遠 2.兩個女兒對性觀念如此隨便。用自己的方法留後代。毫無羞恥之心。也是受所多瑪影響。 3.羅得常常喝的爛醉,生活和所多瑪人一樣。幾時躺下、起來都不知道,竟然都不知情。羅得對此事也毫無感覺,覺得太平常了。連續兩個晚上都不知道嗎?
摩押:從父親來的兒子   便阿閔(亞捫):我親屬的兒子,沒有記念是父親,故意將羅得是父親的事抹去一切化為烏有,後代背負無情無義,亂倫的惡名
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How?
Don't go on the wrong way and do the wrong things, God is waiting for our heart turns to Him.
Confess our sins for all of us are sinners.


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