The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Genesis 18:22-26, “Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham
was still standing before the LORD.
23 Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare
the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
25 “Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous
and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”
26 So the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place
on their account.”

May I say without being trite that this passage reminds me of the kids’ game we all used to play. Oh, don’t you remember? It was called “Hide and Seek.”

No, I am not being crass or flippant in any way. I am simply seeing a balance in what the
LORD says and the game we all used to play.

Of course, the LORD had hidden nothing from Abraham, nor does He intend to do so.
Abraham has become great, as well as the human leader of “a great and mighty nation.”
Further, it is the LORD’s stated intention that he will become the father of many nations.
He has been Divinely chosen to model the way of the LORD to the other nations of the
earth.

Abraham is the LORD’s chosen that he might “keep the way of the LORD”; and this
Abraham does as the LORD leads and teaches him along the way. Yet, the cry of the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is exceedingly great! Their cry is the cry of sin and the
remorse that sin brings. Is it a real cry? What is the nature of the cry? The LORD
determines to inspect the cry and see if the sin is so great!

To understand the cry of a city is to understand the cry of its people. Thus, the LORD
executes an internal inspection to determine the nature and the seriousness of the cry.
He does the same with us –both as a nation and as individuals within the nation. What
will He discover in your life? What will He discover in mine? –or in our nations’?

If your guess is the same as mine, His discovery will not be pleasant. We have broken
virtually all of His commandments. He have scoffed at His Word, the Holy Bible; we have laughed at His directives for our lives. It is as if we believed ourselves to actually be God!
We have derided all of His insturctions; yet, He is now personally en route for His Official
Inspection!

“Oh, but that Inspection,” you say, “just regards God’s inspection of the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah.” Yet, it is emblamatic of where we are in His world today! Read His
inspection with “fear and trembling.” Can our world be cleaned up in time for His Return?
It is doubtful. See what you think –even more, what you can do to rectify our world in
time for His Coming!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom