Sodom and Revelation (No, Jude IS NOT the Last Book)

The account of the destroying of Sodom and Gomorrah has always been seen as a mini-Revelation, and it sort of is. I believe the end times were even compared to the destroying of Sodom and Gomorrah somewhere in the book of Jude.

“Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot, ‘Do you have any other relatives here in the city?’ they asked. ‘Get them out of this place- your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the Lord, and he has sent us to destroy it.”

[Gen. 19:12:13(NLT)]

Have you ever attached a paper clip to a magnet, and then attached another paper clip to the first one? You’ll notice that the second paper clip sticks even though it is not touching the magnet? It is because the molecules in the first paper clip, when coming into contact with the magnet, become arranged so that it too is magnetic. The second paper clip can now move with the magnet without touching it.

This reminds me of Jesus. God is the magnet, and Jesus is that first paper clip. Jesus knows we cannot be as close to God as he is, and we will never be quite like him. So we, the second paper clip in this illustration, cannot touch the magnet. We cannot connect with God by ourselves. But by connecting ourselves with Jesus, WE CAN CONNECT with God.

In this passage, Lot was told to take on the “first paper clip” role. He was told to “Get them out of this place”. In Genesis, “this place” is Sodom. In Revelation and beyond, “This Place” is the entire world. Christians, have you noticed yet that everything in “this place” has an expiration date, including your body? Did it ever occur to you that everything in this earth, including you is either dying or fading away, if it has not done so already? The truth is, everything not connected to Jesus will die. But fortunately, the price of salvation is free. All you have to do is GET CONNECTED.

“So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters fiancés, ‘ Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it!’ but the young men thought he was only joking.”

I’ve seen a few shows on television that tried to discredit the book of Revelation. Saying that John was either crazy or drunk, and was having one heck of a trip instead of a vision from God. Revelation is scary. You’d have to be crazy not to think so! Revelation is a book that many preachers like to stay mum about because it is SO BOLD, and can easily scare (and/or offend) the audience speechless. But WE CANNOT DENY THIS! God had told us what to prepare for. If the weatherman tells you to prepare for rain, should you not get that old raincoat or umbrella from out of the closet? So when Christ told us to prepare for him because hell is going to be a REAL SCORCHER, should we not try our best to get right with God?

Listen to the first five words of this next piece of scripture.

“At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. ‘Hurry’, they said to Lot.

‘Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!” [Gen. 19:15 (NLT)]

“At dawn the next morning”

You see, Christians, we are right now the previous night. They say the night is darkest just before the dawn. The world seems to be getting darker now than in the last few decades. We’ll never know when this “dawn” will be, until it is here. So what can we do? Attach our selves to Jesus; make him hat “fist paper clip” in our lives. Jesus is the only one we can attach ourselves to that comes by an Authority great enough that can PREVENT DEATH.

My intention with this was not to scare you into believing in God, or even to scare you into repentance. But to assert that Jesus is THE ONLY PATH to eternal life, and that anything else we attach ourselves to in order to get by is DYING WITH US, and someday it will be no more. Fashions die. Nobody likes the sound of death. So run for you lives, Christians, run to Jesus.

May the Lord’s guidance be with you all,