p. 16 | A Lesson from Sodom

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 15, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 46.

A Lesson from Sodom

A Lesson from Sodom.—How great is God's mercy! Every example of the past is a revelation to us of what He is now. When Lot was warned of the destruction of Sodom, he lingered. Those who warned him had already saved him from the violence of the wicked of the doomed city. He had seen those who sought to hurt him stricken with blindness, indicative of their spiritual condition; the angels told him to warn his friends and relatives of Sodom's doom. He did, but he seemed to them “as one that mocked.” Notwithstanding all these evidences of the goodness and power of God and the wickedness of Sodom, when the angels told him, “Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city,” the man lingered, loath to leave Sodom. The fibers of his heart had intertwined about the godless place. But God's messengers seize their hands and hurry them forth, “the Lord being merciful.” So would the Lord have done to every soul in doomed Sodom who had the fear of the Lord in his heart. The people were wedded to their sins, identified themselves with the sin, and with the sin they perished. And Sodom is a type of this wicked world. God turned “the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly.” Would we escape Sodom's doom?—Then must we separate wholly from the world and its sin and obey God.