Good evening, everyone. Doing a little one-off on here because this subject has come up lately. I'm going to cover... This isn't going to be two. It's going to be a little different than the normal Bible studies I do where I go line by line. Here we're going to... This is a more of a thematic one because we're going to be talking about the story of Sodom and Gamora. What's up, Jab? And that is takes two. Let's see, we're going to need to go to Leviticus, we're going to need to go to Romans, Ezekiel, Jude, and then Genesis to get the whole story of what we're going to be talking about here, and that's the sins of Sodom and Gamora. Why were they destroyed? And so the backdrop on this, and we get this pushback a lot from progressive Christianity, progressive Christianity will like to point to Ezekiel, use only part of Ezekiel and point that Sodom and Gamor was destroyed because it was prideful and not hospitable. That's their thing. That's what they like to talk about. Now they leave out the part that ultimately leads to their destruction because a lot of towns are prideful, a lot of towns are not hospitable, and yet they're not destroyed with fire and brimstone.
So again, I'd like to point this because, again, progressive Christianity wants to sugarcoat and whitewash that homosexuality is not a sin. And you'll see them always talk about like, Why do you guys only talk about homosexuality as a sin. Why don't you guys worry about adultery and all that in conversations and debates and things like that? And my point is always the same is no one is out here in the world claiming that adultery is not a sin. Everyone agrees adultery is a sin. Everyone agrees stealing is a sin. Everyone agrees that murder is a sin. So there is no real debate on that with anyone. The progressive Christians that go, Well, we're not going to call this a sin now. So now you've created a debate by altering the word of God and going like, Well, now we're going to exclude homosexuality. That part is not a sin. Well, now that's a debate you've created. That's why that debate comes up is because people deny the reality of what the book says about it. So that's why there's a little bit of apologetics when people bring that up is, Oh, man, what they'll call conservative Christians or whatever they like to tout us as, you guys are just hyperfocused on homosexuality.
No, we're not. We're just countering every time you feel the need to bring that up is some non- sin. We got to go, No, that's not correct. That's what we're told to do. That is where the confluence happens. I'll be honest, this happened in a debate over the last two days with this guy who's just saying that that Sodom and Gimur has nothing to do with homosexuality. It has nothing to do with it. The destruction of it has nothing to do with it. We're going to get into the word. We're still going to go line by line. We're still going to use just the scripture. But again, this is going to be a thematic one. So we're going to talk about the theme of homosexuality as a sin and tying that theme in with the destruction of Sodom and Camoras. So it's not going to be that line by line, word by word type study that we're used to. And there's nothing wrong with thematic studies. It's not my cup of tea usually, but they're very useful in this situation. But it doesn't always... I'm going to do my best to still provide all of the correct context.
So that's the backdrop of what we're doing here. This is in Sodom and Gamora. Hold on, I forgot to invite my favorite guy for this. Hold on one second. Let's
see. Let's see. Everyone invites to speak if they want to go ahead. We're going to take more direct questions or anything on that. That's the backdrop. That's the theme on this particular thing. The sins of Sodom and Gamor, what led to their destruction? What was the main issues that we're talking about here? Is it the progressive say, Well, it was just because they're inhospitable and they were mean to people? Or as this one guy said, because they were overweight is one of his thing. And we're going to talk about how that's a very poor interpretation of what we are looking at also. So we're going to start in Leviticus. Because that's going to give us the groundwork here that we're going to go with here because we're going to talk about how the Levitica law defines homosexuality. And first I'm going to read... We're going to go to Leviticus 22, I think it is 18 and verses 21-23 and cover that entire thing. So verse 18:21 says, You shall not give any of your children or offer them to Molec, and so profane the name of your God, I am the Lord. You're going to say, What does that have to do with anything?
I'm going to get into it. Verse 22 says, You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. And then verse 23, You shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it. Neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it. It is a perversion. So we see these lists here and there's a whole bunch of lists about the laws in Leviticus. But focus on these three here because we have a specific couching of this. They're grouped together in a certain way. So we see lying with a male, with a woman, homosexuality. And again, you'll find, here's some apologetic point, they'll go, Well, that doesn't say homosexuality. This means something completely different. No, that's the actual way that the Hebrews defined what homosexuality is. Homosexuality wasn't a word when this was written. It didn't exist. There was no scientific nomenclature for that particular thing. You just defined what was going on. Now, they had their own idioms and insults like we have today, bad words for them. But the word homosexual wasn't coined until 1860, maybe 1880. At first, it was a psychological issue.
That's how it first came about. They were trying to define this behavior and why it was unnatural. They came up with that particular word and it eventually grew until it was actually put into the dictionary for the first time in 1928. And then after that, it actually became... It was actually entered in the first couple of Bible translations in the 1930s. So when you hear a progressive Christian or you hear an atheist go, well, homosexuality isn't bad because it's not mentioned in the Bible that particular word. They're not talking about... It's because it wasn't a word. They're just actually defining the act. So we see here that the act of homosexuality defined here is couched between offering your children to Molech. So sacrificing your child to an idol and having sex with an animal. That's the grouping that we're talking in. That's why it's called an abomination. It's why it's this level here. You are in that same level. I don't want to call it like... But it's in the same level or category of sin. If you'd sacrificed your child to an idol or if you had sex with an animal, you're in that thing.
That's why it's called an abomination. It's one of the 50 abominations. Because we can't just go up the word abomination. It's used a couple of times for different things. There's 50 abominations in the law of the Quran. We're going to get and notate that because that's going to come up later. Now we've defined homosexuality is not a good thing. At no point does Jesus change that covenant when he comes about. In fact, it's reinforced that it doesn't change because some of the covenants are changed. Jesus said you can eat all these kinds of foods and God says it with Peter. So we know that that changes. That's all that gets altered in some of the Levitical laws. I don't want to go into the whole thing, but if you pay close attention to the wording, you even know ahead of time which ones are going to change, just by studying Leviticus closely. But we're not going to get into that that closely. But Romans later, through the New Testament, through the word of God, reinforces that this law doesn't change with the coming and death of Christ. This wasn't something that was a fulfilled or anything.
It's something that we need to keep going, and that leads us to Romans 1. And so in Romans one, we're going to start there at verse 21, Romans 1:21, and we're going to go through Romans 1:27, because again, I don't like to just throw out random Bible verses because if you throw out a random verse, you're missing context. You're missing what's going on with the entire... I don't even like in general doing just what I'm doing here for the most part, but I think we're going to get the general theme without having to study the whole entire book. But we are going to cover enough verses that we completely understand the context. So Romans 121 is, For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him. But their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. And we see there's going to be a progression going here. Although they claim to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Do we see the idolatry that mirrors Leviticus?
It's right there. They're talking about giving your children to idol. And here you're going to exchange glory, give your child to idol. Right here in Romans, it's mirroring Leviticus. So therefore God gave them over to their sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the creator. Molot was a created God. They're going to start serving Molot in one way or the other. Rather than the creator who is forever praised, Amen. Verse 26, Because because of this, God gave them over to their shamefulful lusts. Even though the women... Even their women exchanged their natural sexual relations for unnatural ones in the same way that men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. So we see here this is a progression of sin. Believe it or not, idolatry precedes homosexuality in your progression, in your straintrain from God. First, it's pride. Their pride was we're too smart.
We don't need to give thanks to God. We're wise. They're fools. We can make things that we can worship, and we see that in today's world all the time. We worship our jobs, our money, our fame, or whatever it is. We're worshiping all that. We create that. It's not necessarily an idol of Mohlock anymore. It's the idol of Hollywood popularity or whatever it is. And we do the sacrifices now. We do. How many women have sacrificed their child for success in their secular life through abortion? That is our modern sacrifice. I'll never forget the one actress that won the Golden Globes Award. She got up holding a literal idol in her hands. And if anyone can remember her name, I know a lot of you have heard this story because I tell it all the time, but it really just gave me chills when I saw it live. And she's holding this idol, this Golden Globe statue, this person holding a literal idol. And she gets up in front of the audience in the world and says, This would not have been possible if I had not aborted my child. I am where I am now.
And I give thanks that I had the opportunity. I mean, she didn't quite say that she for a bodily choice, but she was referring to her abortion. Butch, go ahead. Butch, you had a question? Yeah, I think that was Kathy Griffin. She was saying, This is now my God. This is now my idol. I think that's the actress you're talking about. Yeah, she did that also, but this is a different actress, a more serious one that won a legit award. I know exactly what you're talking about, Kathy Griffin. Jayle, go ahead. It's Michelle Williams. Michelle Williams. Thank you. She got nominated for an Oscar that year, too. But, Butch, you're right about your example, too. But the one I'm thinking of is Michelle Williams. So she wins this idol and she's thanking the fact that she sacrificed her child to win this idol. By the way, I think she was pregnant at the time as well. Even better, right? Even better. So she sacrificed her child and she admits that she sacrifices her child to win an idol. So we're living in the same thing. And that's the step. We are smarter. And so what do we do?
Pride leads first and then sacrificing of our children, and then that leads to homosexuality. And the next step is beastiality, and then that's it. There's nothing really past that in your depravity against God. And it even goes here. So we start worshiping these images. She worshiped this idol that she had to win. She had to win that Golden Globe because that was the pinnacle of her existence. And so what happens when you turn from God to that way, we get turned over to our sinful desires of the hearts, which leads to this homosexuality. It's the next one down the line. It's a progression. It's the end result from turning from God, like he says here at the very end. It's unnatural. It's this homosexuality where men go after men and women go after women. We see that homosexuality is defined by God here as an abomination in Leviticus on the level of bestiality and the level of sacrificing your child. And we see here that we follow the same progression in Leviticus. Paul reiterates that this is still an abomination and still a problem. As we turn from God, we worship idols. And then so God goes, Well, if you're going to worship idols, you've given up on me.
I will give you the world you're asking for, and the world that you ask for ends up resulting in these unnatural sexual encounters. I'm not going to call it love. I'm not going to call it just not that. It's a sexual, lustful thing that there is shameful. And that's how God defines it. And I'm not going to sugarcoat what God says. So that's our definition that we're working with. We're following God's definition contextually from Leviticus, and we follow it through Paul and Romans, who further defines it and further reiterates it. Even in the New Testament, this is still bad. Because you'll see in progressive, Jesus changed all that. We don't follow the law. Paul reiterates that we still shouldn't be doing this. Jesus came, so now we can have idolatry. We don't do that. So we don't go Jesus came, so now we can have rampant homosexuality. So now let's take it all the way back to Ezekiel. Because Ezekiel does speak to the problems with Sodom because he said Israel is doing the same thing. And if you've studied Ezekiel, you know that Israel is doing the same. They turn to idolatry, they start sacrificing their children to Molec, and they start having these homosexual orgies up in the mountains.
And that's why God goes, Well, I got to bring the Babylonians and take care of you guys because you've turned that far from God. There's no going back. And it all stems from your pride, which led to idolatry, which leads to the sacrifice of your children, which leads to this rampant homosexual orgy lifestyle that they were in the midst of. Ezekiel compares in, he goes, Look, you guys think you're better than Sodom and Gamora. You guys keep complaining about what a great... You're God's people and all that. He goes, But really, you're just the same. Even worse because you have God on your side. Sodom and Gamora weren't Jewish people, so they had to look to a God that they weren't part of their culture and change. He's like, I'm here with you. The temple is in your city, yet you've turned away from me. We see in this in Chapter 16, verses 49 and 50, it says, Behold, this was the guilt of your sister, Sodom. She and her daughters had pride, excess of food and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor or the needy. They were haughty and they did abominations before me.
We see right here how it's defined. This is a progression. When things like this are listed in this way, when God lists things, it's always a progression in the Bible. You start with one point and it leads to another point. The order matters in the Bible when things are listed in such a manner. Even the apostles, every time they're listed who's first? It's always Peter. Whose last? It's always Judas. The rest of them, how they fall in order, I don't know exactly the meaning of it, but we know that there's a meaning to it. It meant something. And every time God, even the beautitudes, beatitudes that Jesus does, and he does them in order, that matters. They list because if you read them and you study them, they actually build upon each other. They start with total destitution of looking to God, and they lead to total enlightenment of reaching fulfillment with God. The order matters. If you move them out of order, it doesn't work. The orders of the seven letters of the churches matter because they show you the actual church ages as we go through time. You couldn't do them in another order.
Ephesus has to come first. La-d-e-s has to come last because Ephesus was the Apostolic Church. La-d-e-s is our modern-day spiritualist church. The order matters. And so here we get the order. And we start with what is the first part? They had pride. Now, everyone, and I'm not going to mint words on this or anything because it's a little semantics, but pride, just so you can look at it from a different perspective, pride in and of itself is not a sin. Let me finish before you go, Oh, this is a crazy talk here. The general God had pride and there's a way to have pride that's not a sin. In and of itself, it's not a sin. But what pride is, in a way, is even worse because it's the fertile soil of which all sin grows. So while in and of itself, it's not like, you can't point, but every commandment, every sin that comes into the world comes from pride. It's the root of every other sin. So that way it's worse, right? Because pride leads you to a sin. The root is always the pride, and it leads you to a sin. Think about it in The Ten Commandments.
Pride, theft. I deserve that more than that person. That's prideful. Adultery. I'm not satisfied with this and so I want to break these vows to fulfill my personal pleasure, lust, whatever, sin. Not honoring your mother and father. They don't deserve me to honor them. I am better than them. Sin. Worshiping another God. That God doesn't... God doesn't himself not doing enough for me. I deserve more. So I'm going to worship this other God. Pride. Every sin you can think of and put into the Bible eventually traces its roots all the way back to pride. And that's why you'll find when God lists someone's sins, it always starts with pride. Satan, it's pride. Judah, pride. Babylon, pride. It's always pride and it's always at the beginning. Why? Because it's not the culmination. It's not the final straw that God gets, Well, that's it. Too much pride. It's the resulting actions of a prideful person that leads God to judge. Does that make sense? Any questions about that? So Sodom was prideful and they had plenty. They prospered with ease, as I have put here. Prosperous ease. They had excess food, they didn't have to work hard.
And we see that's illustrated when Lot and Abraham are picking their land. They've both grown so wealthy that their herds are butting heads and their shepherds are fighting because they both couldn't co-habitate on the same land. Abraham goes, Look, all this land is ours, Lot. By him saying ours, it was really his. None of it was bequite the lot. Abraham is just being a nice guy and going, Well, you've come down and you've done all this with me, so it's ours. You can have it. He gives them the choice of land. Now, to the west, it's rocky and desolate in what we think of maybe the desert type of Israel, the rocks and everything like that. But if you look to the east and to the river there, it was lush and there was trees and great farming land and great grazing land. It was just way better land. But there's Sodom, which was already considered a wicked city before Lot got there, it was known for his wickedness. Abraham, knowing God was going to take care of him no matter where he went, said, Lot, you go ahead and pick your land because I trust God.
We'll take care of you no matter where. Lot goes, Well, I'm going to pick the easy land. It was easy when we look at it from a secular world point view, but it was very difficult from a spiritual view because he was putting himself right into the landscape and the grouping of towns of Sodom and Gamor. Remember, it wasn't just Sodom and Gamora that they were destroyed, but a whole group of towns around them. And they're evil ways. And Lot going, Well, I'm a righteous man. I thought, Okay, I can co-habitate with the ungodly and not be affected. And we find out later that doesn't work. His wife dies, his two daughters end up raping him because they're living in this type of culture. It doesn't work. I always tell you guys, you can't just cohabitate with the ungodly. It doesn't work. You're pulling them closer. And I mean keeping them close in your life. Of course, we live in a world of the ungodly, but I'm talking about close people in your life that you're always associating with. If they're all ungodly and you're not pulling them closer to God, they're pulling you farther away.
And Lot was getting pulled farther away. He stays righteous, but it affects his family to the point where his wife prefers that life over leaving and dies because of it. We see here that we see why Lot picked the land, though. It's prosperous. It's easy. They didn't have to work the land very hard. What happened was the Sodomites go like, This is how great we are. We hardly have to do any work and look how blessed we are and look at all this great stuff. They don't give glory to God, of course, because they're wicked and evil. They go, It's just because we're awesome. They would have the poor and needy in their town or they would pass through and they didn't do anything to help them. They had an abundance. They had everything they needed. But when they're pouring, they need, they need, they need. But the more the outlook was you guys obviously don't deserve it. We deserve it. That's their pride kicking in. Go get your own stuff. We're not going to help you. That's what God's point here. They had a land where they had everything. God had given them all this stuff, even though they're wicked because that was the land they're on.
It gives them no excuse not to be helpful, yet they still chose not to be because of their pride. What does that lead to? Their pride and their inability or desire not to help leads them to be haughty, which is the next level up from pride. This is more the sin of pride. They elevate themselves. Now we're going right back to Romans. They view themselves above God or anything around them. That's what haughty means. The haughty means to be elevated above all. That was their attitude. Well, we're God. He's nothing to us. We don't need God. We don't need anything like that. We are above all because look at our land. We have a walled city. All these other cities around us require us for existence. Everything is easy. We are the pinnacle of everything. We don't need God. But what does Paul say? What happens when you get to that level? Well, God says it. Because of this, God gives them over to their shamefulful lusts. They start this homosexual lifestyle. When they got nothing else going on, you're thinking of different ways to entertain yourself and do all this because you're not giving yourself that.
And when you're chasing human things, it always gets worse and worse and worse. It starts off this little way and then you got to get a little more debase. I got to get a little more debase. I got to get a little more debase. And then pretty soon you're completely away from God, just as Paul said in Romans. It culminates. We start with the Pride, which is, like I said, in this case, isn't really the sin. It's the root and the soil of the sin that leads to all these stuff. What does it culminate with? Abominations. They did abominations before me. Their pride led to a disdain for others, which led to an elevated self-worth above God, which led to abominations. Leviticus describes homosexuality as abominations. Romans describes homosexuality as the elevation above and beyond and without God. We see where we're putting the puzzle pieces together here. It's a list. It starts here. The culminating sin, the really bad one, is at the end. Everything led up to these abominations that they're performing. Absolutely. Did you have a question? Yes, please, a quick one. It was that Sodom and Gomora and the surrounding towns, they didn't have a Sanhedrin in them then, did they?
No, this was the beginning of the Jewish people. It was just Abraham. They weren't even that far down here. Now we've covered the Ezekiel part that everyone that this... Go ahead, Joe. But building off that, we did have the Levi- We did have the what? Did we have the priests here? The Levi- No, we don't have anything. There's no tribes yet because it's still Abraham. He hasn't even had a child yet. Oh, got you. Let me clarify the time frame since there's obviously a couple of questions on. This is in the time of Abraham still. Abraham still hasn't even had Isaac. He's been promised his people, but he hasn't had any of them yet. Isaac's not even born yet. This is actually around the time that he's told that Sarah is going to give birth right before the angels come and tell them we're going to destroy. He knows within the year, he's going to have his first child. We don't have the Leviites, we don't have the Sanhedrin, we don't have anything. We just have Abraham, a godly person; Lot, who's a godly person, but not wise and hanging out with the ungodly, which is going to compromise him and his family.
And then we have this wicked city of Sodom who becomes an example for all. So then we go to Jude. Because Jude also talks about what happens to Sodom and Gamor. Because now we got to find out what are these abominations. We can piece it together so far. We're trying to know what track we're going on, but God doesn't leave anything up to doubt. He covers it all. And so we go to Jude and we're going to read Jude. There's only one chapter. Poor Jude only gets one book or one chapter. He doesn't get a bunch of chapters. Him and Obedia just hang out with just one chapter. And so we're going to go to verse 6 and 7. It says, And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under the gloomy darkness until the judgment of that great day. And he's talking about the angels that went down and procreated with the women that created the Nephilim, which created the flood, which is why everyone had to be wiped out because they were all the Nephulum that were half-man, half-demon, fallen angel.
And then that takes us to verse 7, just as Sodom, so we're tying sexual immorality of the angels to sexual immorality in Sodom. There's a connection because he says, They were busted for sexual immorality, justice Sodom, and Gamora in the surrounding cities — again, that's where we get there's more cities involved here — which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. So Jude itself tells you why they suffered a punishment of eternal fire. It means it wiped everything out. Everything's wiped out. Why? It's not because there were gluttons, as this guy was trying to say. It wasn't because they're inhospitable. That was part of their sin. But that sin, and it wasn't gluttony, it was having plenty and not giving to others. But that sin of inhospitableess, the sin, the root of it and pride and the fact that they were not helping the needy, of course, led to their sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires. And that's what caused God, according to Jude, to undergo punishment of eternal fire. So right there we know, we find out right there we're getting this list.
We get the list of what led to this abomination in Ezekiel. That was a list that went, They started here and this is their don't follow this pattern, children, because that will lead you to these abominations. And here in Jude, we get what the abominations are. And the abominations are sexual immorality and pursuit of natural desire, which, of course, ties into Romans 1. So we see we're following the same exact... God is very consistent. The message is always the same. He told you, Here's the list in Romans of how you go from godliness to all of a sudden, your homosexual society. And here it is. Ezekiel points it out that they did that. And here we have Jude saying that was the culmination that led to their punishment and eternal fire. We got Jude saying that. Now let's go to the story of Sodom and Gamora. We haven't even touched on that. Now let's take it all the way back to Genesis. I thought it'd be better to do it this way than to start the other way. We're going to go back. I wanted to define everything. When we read the story of Sodom and Gamora, that we already know what the definitions are.
We're not trying to redefine or figure it out. We know everything happening right now. A recap at the very beginning, the two angels come. The two angels are coming specifically to save Lot in his family. Now, Lot and his family, those angels, just a little side note on the story, they asked if we could save anybody. They were willing to save anyone. God only sent two angels because God knew that there was only going to be four people saved because they each had to be taken by hand out of the city. So he sent four angels or two angels because they have four hands. And who gets saved? The two daughters, Lot and his wife. God already knew exactly how many people were going to accept the salvation. He gives everyone the choice in Sodom, but he already knew who was going to do it. They're there and they're having dinner with the family and they're about to go to bed. Genesis 19:4 and on. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all of the people to the last man. People miss out on that.
Every single man in the city, from your 14-year-old to your 90-year-old, every single one of them. This isn't just a idiomatic everyone here. It's really worded this way to let you know that it's every single man. That's how prevalent this problem is in the city. It's not just a group of hoolagans. It's not just a small group of people. It's not even a majority. It's every man. That's how depraved the city is. Every last man surrounded the house and they called the lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Now, the reason I'm stressing men is because you're going to see people say that, no, the sin isn't that they were homosexual. The sin is that they were trying to have sex with angels. But these men don't even know they're angels. They saw two men come into the city, they looked like men, thought they were men. They don't know they're angels until later. They're not there for angels. They don't know them. They don't know about angels. They wouldn't even know an angel anyway. They're not godly people. They've never encountered angels. It's not anything they would even know about, much less know that, Oh man, I just saw an angel.
Let's go rape the angel. That's not how it occurred. They saw two men enter the city and said, There we go. There's two new guys in this town. Let's go take care of them. They go, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them, now know them in this sense, and some of the other Bible versions say it's more direct, it says, So we can have sex with them. There's no ambiguity. They're there to rape them. Lot went out to the men at the entrance and shut the door after him. So he goes out by his own and he closes the door and he says, And said, 'I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof. Now I'm not going to get into the whole what comes first your family or hospitality to strangers under Judeic law or anything. That's a whole other conversation.
But just know that the key here for what we're talking about tonight in the Sins of the son of the Gamora is they were offered women. Okay, you guys are that out of control, horny, and you need to go... Here's two women. Take the women. But they said, Stand back. And they said, This fellow has come to sojourn and he has become a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then they pressed hard against the manlot and drew near to break the door down. So they don't want the women. They're not there for the women. This isn't about even rape at this point, just rape, obviously, because they're offering these women to do what they say please. They're all, No, we want the men. These two things are mentioned and they come out and they go, Where are the men? They don't say they're angels. They don't know that they're angels. Then they're offered women and they go, We don't want women either. We want men. They are oppressed... They press down, they're going to break down the door. And then they were struck with blindness. And the men were at the entrance of the house, both small and great.
So they wore themselves out, groped in for the door. So they're flipping out because they're blind and they can't go out. And that's when the angels go, Do you have anyone else here? Your son-in-laws and everything, and no one else comes with them and we get to the rest of the Sodom and they destroy the city and that. But the main thing I wanted to point out with Genesis 19:4, it tells us again specifically, they wanted to rape men, not women, not angels. They don't refer to them as angels. They don't know what angels are. They don't even know anything like that. So there's nothing to do because they'll point to Jude like, Oh, the abomination is they want to have unnatural sex with angels. Well, no, we know that's not true. Then they refused the offering of women. We know now for sure what is the abomination that this city was doing. It wasn't eating shellfish. It wasn't glutney that brought upon this final destruction. It wasn't any of those things. Those are things that led to this. Not the shellfish part. I just bring that up because someone mentioned that. Well, it could have been shellfish?
That's an abomination. Now, again, if you study the entire Bible, you understand exactly what the abomination is. We know the abomination that leads to the destruction of Sodom and Camora and all the cities around it is homosexuality. And you go, My gosh, that's a really rough... Well, we know where God views homosexuality. It's why he brought up Leviticus. It's somewhere in the same range of burning your child for Molok and having sex with animals. And if your entire city, if every single man in that city is that debased and that depraved, where if you see a man that you can't even resist it, you got to go, Well, that's a new man in town. Let's go rape him and bring everyone with him. There's nothing left in this city. There's nothing of value in this city. There's nothing of God that can use. It just is better to be wiped out because God says you've reached that part where if it's all of the city. Everything's depraved. I don't want to talk about what might have happened to their kids. I know I've read a lot of study about the Kenyanite culture. I'm not going to get into that because it's disturbing.
But it was better for everything for the entire world that the entire area is completely wiped out and we start new because they have gone so far from God that there's no coming back from any of that. And that is it. I am now open for questions on this if anyone has any, but I just wanted to bring that up.