The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Genesis 19:9-14, “But they said, ‘Stand aside.’ Furthermore, they said, ‘This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.’ So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.
10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
12 Then the two men said to Lot, ‘Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
13 for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.’
14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.”

In the previous chapter, the LORD said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.” Yet, following the LORD’s assessment of Sodom’s sin (18:20), Abraham sought to appease the LORD’s thinking and gradually encourage Him to spare the city.

How like that we are today! “Just leave our sin to us,” we say. “We’ll handle every-
thing.” Yet, we can’t, and we don’t! With a deluge of “preachers” on the internet,
the behavior of the world is moving toward Sodom and its homosexuality. Do you
remember the old saying, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear”? –or was it “…half of what you hear and nothing of what you see?” Either works well with the Internet these days.

Only the financial situation seems tenuously holding things together –and that is temporal in that the nations’ need for each other keeps them from outright war. The warning of Holy Scripture is not to be ignored! The LORD has spoken, and only those who heed His warning can hope to survive. Yet, the situation will get worse as time moves rapidly along.

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