Above, two guys being handled.
For the last two days we’ve looked at the intricacies in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in this post and this post. I should note I’ve been using the Tanakh for source material. Those who following along have seen there are differences in the Old Testament. Today we’re going to delve into the rest of the story.
We left off at Genesis 19:7. Lot has two angels in his house and a crowd has surrounded it. They want to rape the angels, ostensibly as punishment for a crime they did not commit. A strange thing happens in verse 8. Lot addresses the crowd.
Genesis 19:8 Behold now I have two daughters who were not intimate with a man. I will bring them out to you, and do to them as you see fit; only to these men do nothing, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
This is weird to say the least. Lot offers his daughters to be raped instead of the two visitors; not very fatherly. The crowd approaches the door with the intent to force their way in.
The angels then blind the crowd and pull Lot back inside. They tell him he must take his family and flee, for they are destroyers sent by Yhwh. The city will be destroyed because their cries have become great.
Lott couldn’t persuade the suitors of his daughters to come with and tarried himself. The two angels lifted Lot, his wife and his two daughters and put them outside of the city. The angels told them to flee to the mountain and not to look back or they would perish. Lot begs to go to a city instead to save his soul; a city called Zoar.
He goes to the city of Zoar. Genesis 19:23 The sun came out upon the earth, and Lot came to Zoar.
Genesis 19:25 And He turned over these cities and the entire plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the vegetation of the ground. 26 And his wife looked from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Then the story takes a strange twist, as you knew it would.
Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and He sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction when He overturned the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
וַיְהִ֗י בְּשַׁחֵ֤ת אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־עָרֵ֣י הַכִּכָּ֔ר וַיִּזְכֹּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיְשַׁלַּ֤ח אֶת־לוֹט֙ מִתּ֣וֹךְ הַֽהֲפֵכָ֔ה בַּֽהֲפֹךְ֙ אֶת־הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־יָשַׁ֥ב בָּהֵ֖ן לֽוֹט
It happened in a hurry the gods the aware the plains and remembered the gods Abraham and sent Lot out of the destruction the contrary cities that stayed in which Lot
This begs a question; if Lot was in Zoar, how could he also be in the midst of the destroyed cities?
The remainder of the chapter tells of Lot leaving Zoar and traveling to the mountain with his two daughters whom he has sex with. The story says they got him drunk in order to bear children by him.
Are we dealing with an imposter Lot? He offers the daughters to be raped then later has sex with them at their behest. Was it really their father? When Lot’s wife looks back at Sodom is she thinking of the real Lot? The way things have been going in Santa Fe it seems a distinct possibility.
Here’s a more important point. We know people repeat their life patterns. If they find themselves in a similar situation they will most likely do the same thing. What about gods?
The story in Judges chapters 19 – 21 is about a war between the tribe of Benjamin at the city of Gibeah and the other tribes of Israel. The war starts because a Levite, who went to retrieve his wife, stopped in the town overnight. He was invited to stay by a helpful old man. The people of the town came around and wanted to rape the Levite who was asleep. The old man put his wife outside and the men raped her and left her dead on the street. The Levite summoned the other tribes and they destroyed Gibeah.
Can we say the Levite from Judges and Lot were the same person? Probably not. Lot did not want Sodom to be destroyed. The Levite definitely wanted Gibeah destroyed. Is it possible the Levite is the imitation Lot? Did the real Lot even know what the hell was going on? Hard to say.
In both stories groups of men gather to rape a man or men. Prior to, in both stories, a woman had been raped.
The wife of the Levite left him and ran back to her father after “playing the whore against him.” She was later murdered. Is it possible Lot left his wife for a similar reason? She was “turned to salt.”
1 Samuel 5:6 And the hand of Yhwh became heavy upon the Ashdodites, and He ravaged them, and He smote them with hemorrhoids, Ashdod and its borders. We can be fairly certain Yhwh doesn’t care about men being raped so it’s probably not the reason he wanted to destroy the cities.
The Tribe of Benjamin inhabited land south of Israel and called their nation Judah. They later, in the 6th century BCE, revolted against the Babylonians and were wiped out; the tribe faded into history. Someone really wanted the Benjaminites gone.
What about the puppet master “gods” who created these events by manipulating the people in the charades? They are repeating their life patterns; they and their handlers. The drama created by the puppet masters hides the real reason they wanted these people to die. This post and the two prior demonstrate the reason they want to destroy the Jews.
Exodus 15:3 יְהֹוָ֖ה אִ֣ישׁ מִלְחָמָ֑ה יְהֹוָ֖ה שְׁמֽוֹ
Literally “Yhwh man war Yhwh name”
Yhwh is a man of war, Yhwh is his name.
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