Sodom in the New Testament: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 First I’m going to give you a timeline. There, here’s the flood, okay. That’s God destroyed the earth because of violence and sin in the earth, sexual immorality and so forth. At the flood, there’s approximately 400 years between that judgment and the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, okay? When God destroyed Sodom, then we come over here to the Exodus. Israel was 400 years from Sodom. Abraham and had sons, and then they had sons, and they went down to Egypt for actually 430 years, but approximately 400 years between Sodom and God judging Egypt and literally destroying Egypt to set his people free. Are you with me so far?

▶ 1:00 We find that the period of the judges was approximately 400 years. Everybody doing what’s right in their own eyes. The judges were brought up to judge God’s people. he would He would bring in armies or plagues to correct God’s people, and then he would raise up a judge to lead them out of the captivity, the judgment. All right, that was 400 years, approximately 400 years. Are you getting the picture? 400 years is all of a sudden a prominent figure in God’s judgments. All right. Then we come over here to where they have a king. They didn’t want to judge anymore, and so they wanted a king. They wanted to be like the nations. And this is during the era of the kings is when God, through Jeremiah and Ezekiel, said that his people was like Sodom and Gomorrah. They were sinning. Isaiah, all these, Hosea, all these prophets came and tried to turn God’s people back, to right back to Bible morality. Okay. And so, sure enough, it was about 400 years of the reigns of the kings, and then God took them into captivity, the Babylonian captivity.

▶ 2:31 All right. Now we have 400 silent years from Nehemiah and Malachi, the last two prophets, Ezra, after the restoration of God’s people from captivity. There’s 400 silent years. God didn’t say anything till Jesus came. Interesting. Now when Jesus came, he himself said it will be like Sodom when I come the second time and judge the earth. But we don’t have a period of time, and obviously he didn’t follow the 400-year paradigm, did he? Cuz we’re 2,000 years from that time. But you can rest assured it’s what? Coming. Now notice this. That over here in the law, Moses, Deuteronomy, God told Israel that you’re going to fall away, you’re going to sin, you’re going to serve other gods, and you’re going to go into captivity. That was 800 years before they went into into captivity. God told them what was going to happen, because Deuteronomy also says they didn’t have a heart. He said, “Oh, that there was a heart in them to obey me and to know me.” You see, he was trying to save and trying to uh use a people, and a lot of them didn’t want to obey him and didn’t want to know him. Are you there? And he predicted this stuff 800 years before they went into captivity for their sin. Are you there? Now, see, that’s a supernatural God.

▶ 4:42 Folks, supernatural gods can predict things before they ever happen. Nobody else. But it’s also coincidental that over here, Jesus himself said there would be a falling away, and we would be like Sodom at the second coming of Jesus Christ. And this is where all your second uh return, your your end time predictions are all wrong. I’ve studied them all. They all have a problem: pre-tribulation, post-tribulation, mid-tribulation, premillennium, postmillennium, amillennium. All these things have a real problem, because no one is connecting it to what God said is the example of the end. We do all this crazy stuff with weeks and Daniel and all this nonsense, and we get God’s people all, we lead them. Okay, now we got the picture of the timeline. When’s the next next Sodom example coming? At the second coming, the return of Christ. Okay, we don’t know how long, we don’t know how many years people try to predict it, but we know that one of the signs is things are going to be like Sodom and Gomorrah. Right? Yeah. Now, so we go to the New Testament now to get the clarification of Sodom judgment. Here we go. First, men of Sodom in the New Testament.

▶ 6:35 Mark 6:11: “Whosoever shall not receive you.” Talking to the apostles, he sent them out to preach the gospel, and he says, “Whoever not receive you, accept you, nor hear you.” You see, you can reject the preacher, hate him, put him in prison or whatever, and you can also reject the message that the preacher is bringing. And he says whoever rejects the message and whoever rejects and mistreats the preacher preaching it, “I say it shall be more tolerable,” more bearable, it be a better word here, “for Sodom and Gomorrah in the” what? “Day of judgment than for that city.” Wow. Did you hear that, church? He sent the preachers out to preach, the apostles out to preach, and he said this statement that it’s going to be more tolerable, bearable in the day of judgment. In other words, there’s levels of judgment, and Sodom and Gomorrah’s people is going to have a lesser judgment than the people that reject the message and reject the preachers preaching it.

▶ 8:03 Wow. And so what did the apostles do? They went out and preached psychology. Right? No. Isn’t that what we’re hearing today in America, a lot of psychology? They would out preach prosperity. Right? No. Isn’t that what we’re hearing in America? “Boy, come to Christ, you’re going to be wealthy and rich.” Ain’t that right? Possibility thinking, purpose-driven thinking, all of this stuff. They preach none of that. What did they preach? That men should what? Repent. What’s the message they’re rejecting? Repentance, not grace and faith. And what do you hear prominently in every church and in every radio and TV minister? Grace and faith. “Come to Christ.” No. “You’re in, man. You believe in Christ, you in.” No repentance. But what was the apostles’ message? Repentance. Said repentance. You got to turn from your sin. You got to stop sinning. And if you don’t, you’re like Sodom and Gomorrah.

▶ 9:27 Hallelujah, hallelujah. Isn’t that clear? I mean, folks, you can’t get any more clear than that. You see, and we got to get it out of our mind that God’s just going to judge homosexuals and sexual immorality people because that’s what Sodom. We showed you in Jeremiah and Ezekiel that God referred to his people being like Sodom and Gomorrah when they did worse sins than Sodom and Gomorrah did. Matthews 11:20, second mention of Sodom. Jesus rebuked the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, for they did not what? Repent. [unclear] Capernaum, they’re going to be brought down to what? Hell, Hades, the abiding place of the dead that don’t know God or don’t didn’t follow God. Why? Because God did a miracle there. He was born of a virgin. He opened blinded eyes. He, you know, multiplied the fish and the loaves and all kinds of things, and they would not repent even though he did all the miracles. You ever hear people say, “Boy, if I could see a miracle, I believe”? He again says it’s going to be more tolerable, they’re going to be more bearable for Sodom in the day of what? Judgment, the second coming, than for you. “For if I would have done the miracles in Sodom and Gomorrah that I did in you and preached the word that I preached in you to you, they would have remained. There would have been no judgment. They would have repented.” how many You know, the city of Nineveh was like that. God was going to destroy it. He went in with the message, “In 40 days God’s going to destroy it,” and the people what? Repented.

▶ 11:25 Hallelujah. Now, isn’t this clear? God’s example of Sodom is the example of God’s vengeance and judgment both on unbelievers and believers who reject what the message of repentance, not the message of faith, not the message of water baptism, not the message of the Holy Ghost baptism, was speaking in tongues, not the message that everybody’s got a gift and God has got a purpose for you. Third time Sodom and Gomorrah is mentioned, third time, and it’s in procession, it’s in step by step. Luke 17:28: “Likewise,” similarly, in the same manner, “as it was in the days of Lot.” Where was Lot? In Sodom. Okay. “They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted and built.” Now does that sound like days are terrible, like pre-tribulation rapture people talk about, like post-tribulation people talk about? Buying, selling, marrying, giving in the marriage. The other scripture says. Isn’t that just normal everyday life? Yeah. Eating, drinking, working, not working, still eating. Don’t have to work, you can still eat. Is America in this condition, in spite of our economy problems and everything else? Are we still buying, selling, marrying, giving in marriage, eating? Yeah, yeah. People that don’t work, do they get to eat free? Oh absolutely, no problem. Have five kids, we just raise your salary, raise your welfare.

▶ 13:42 But the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed how many? All of them. You see, when God removed the righteous, and he always protects the righteous. Remember in Israel there were seven thousand that had not bowed their knee to Baal. No matter how much you read in the scriptures, there’s always that remnant that is there that God is blessing, people that are following God, which the next series will show you. In the midst of this stuff, God comes up with tremendous promises to his people. In the midst of this mess, God makes these promises. “Even so shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” When Christ comes back, this is what is going to be happening, just like Sodom and Gomorrah. They were with natural life, but they were sinning, homosexuality, all these sins were going to go into them. Okay, so the condition of the earth is going to be like what? Sodom and Gomorrah. Okay.

▶ 14:49 There ain’t no big bad uh son of perdition, the antichrist, rising up, folks. Everyone who teaches you that teaching you a lie. It’s just not in the scriptures. The Bible never says that the son of perdition is the antichrist. Never says it. Then he says this powerful statement: “Remember Lot’s wife.” Oh, remember I told you that Lot’s wife didn’t just look back, as that word is, she went back. You wasn’t listening when I said that, huh? Yeah, well, right here: remember Lot’s wife. Why does he want us to remember Lot’s wife? Because the angels came. Her husband was a righteous man. He had two virgin daughters, and he had two daughters married to heathen men, probably had kids by them, probably had grandchildren, and they mocked and laughed when he said, when Lot said, “You know, God’s going to destroy the city.” They go, “You got to be kidding, man. Ain’t nothing like that going to happen. We’re buying, we’re selling, we’re marrying, giving, everything normal.”

▶ 16:10 And then the angels grab Lot, his wife, and the two virgin daughters, living still in their home, and took them out of the city, literally grabbed them and took them out of the city. Now the angels had the message, the angels had the authority. They start going down the road from Sodom and Gomorrah, leaving the town, and she decides, “I’m not following the angels any further. I’m not following my righteous husband any further. I’m going back. I got a home back there. I just bought a nice 60-inch widescreen TV. I got grandchildren back there. We got money in the bank, and besides that, I can live off welfare. I don’t even need a Lot.” If you read what we told you, that’s exactly what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. You didn’t even have to work. They’d feed you. Are you guys out there?

▶ 17:26 He said, “Remember Lot’s wife.” What happened to her? She got caught in the judgment and turned to a pillar of salt, just like everything else was salt in that area, and it’s still salt. And this, he explains, “If you seek to save your life,” and that’s what she did, “I’m not going to follow them guys, I’m going to do it my way.” Isn’t that what happened in Judges? They did what was right in their own eyes. Isn’t that what happened at the flood? They did what was right in their own eyes. And that what happened, went into captivity, everybody was doing what was right in their own eyes. No repentance, no Bible morality. They all believed in God, but no Bible morality, no repentance. “And whoever loses his life,” you give up your way of doing things, “you will find it.” You will get life. Isn’t that right? You go God’s way, you’ll live. Repent, turn from your sins, accept Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for the punishment for your sin, you will live. If you do it your way, you will die. Ain’t that clear? Did Lot’s wife die with two angels leading her out? Yeah.

▶ 18:51 Remember their sins. Sodom’s crimes. Sins is just a Bible word for crime. And so when you use sin, they say, “Well, we can’t use the word sin.” Sin is nothing but the same word as crime. You violated a moral law, it is a crime, there’s a punishment, there’s a hurt that’s going to be done. Are you with me? United States, in Europe today, and at the second coming. All right, sexual immorality is much bigger than homosexuality, because there’s more people committing sexual immorality than there is people committing homosexuality, and how’s he going to single out the homosexuals and just judge them, except for this AIDS thing? You know, that’s a obvious judgment on the male homosexuals, cuz, you know, 90% of the people who have it are male homosexuals, over 90%, 94 or something like that. Are you there? We need to correct our sexual immorality, also incest, adultery, fornication, sex with animals, and all that stuff. Sexual immorality, homosexuality was the second sin. Pride, of course. America has no pride. Right? Fullness of bread, abundance of idleness. Do we have abundance of idleness? We we went through all this. Yeah, we’re lining up. Boy, we’re we’re right there. We don’t strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy. And how do you strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy? Getting them a career, getting them a job, getting them work. That’s right.

▶ 20:42 Abominations. Abominations include sexual immorality, homosexuality, incest, pedophilia, sex with children, sex with animals, witchcraft, all child abuse, including the murder of children. The Bible declares is an abomination. When you mistreat a child, whether it’s verbally, physically, sexually, emotionally or whatever, God says that’s an abomination. Not telling people to repent, we just learned, as an abomination. Okay. Desecrating God’s house is an abomination. Stealing, lying, all this stuff, that’s an abomination. Abomination is something God detests. God hates it because it brings harm. Now, they declared openly their sin. They didn’t hide it. And we just found that, as I said, no repentance to the gospel message is their sin. All right, and that’s the way it’s going to be at the coming of Christ.

▶ 22:03 Now let me just say, back in those years growing through all that, the people around me and I myself, who became a tongue-talking, spirit-filled believer, wound up in a circle of churches that believed in prophecy, setting people into the body of Christ. And nobody that I read books on, no preacher, no minister that I talked to, and no minister, big mega church on TV and radio, even gave an indication, even a thought, that America would be passing a law for same-sex marriage, homosexuality accepted, that these homosexuals would have infiltrated the churches, the politics, Congress, local city councils, mayors, state, and that one to two of people would gain inroads like they have today. No one predicted it, including us tongue talkers who supposed to be a notch above everybody else, man. You know, nobody. They were all saying, “Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming.” Oh man, no one predicted the fall of Russia overnight, just like that. And if God can bring down Russia overnight, can he bring down America? Oh yeah, he’s God, folks. That’s why the scriptures say don’t trust in chariots, don’t trust in horses. Back then, those days, that was the tremendous weapons, the cavalry, the armor was the chariots. He said, “Don’t trust in your army. When I decide to do something, armies don’t even get in my way.” Are you there?

▶ 24:37 None of these people were predicting these things. None of these were predicting when the sexual revolution came along. No one predicted that America would wind up with 50% of Americans with a sexually transmitted disease today. 50% of Americans have a sexually transmitted disease or had one, or got more than one, one-half, one and two. No one predicted there were to be 30 over 30 and new sexually transmitted diseases. No preacher was predicting that. No politician was predicting that. Just, you know, “if it feels good, do it.” That was the statement back there. Am I right, you older ones? “If it feels good, do it. I’m not hurting anybody else.” Yeah, you do hurt somebody else when you do these things, and it starts spreading through America. Uh, over 30,000 a year die from sexually transmitted diseases in America, and they make a big issue of a few kids getting gunned down in a school, and they make no issue of over 30,000 Americans dying every year from sexually transmitted diseases. 30,000. Over, and about 27, 28,000 of those, those are AIDS. They die from AIDS. When you say the homosexual is acceptable and they come, you are sentencing that man to a horrible death of AIDS. Nowhere else do we sentence people to a disease. Are we like Sodom and Gomorrah? Oh yeah, oh yeah.

▶ 26:30 48% of children are born to single-parent mothers. 30% of Americans never marry. 49% of women, young women today, live with a man on an average of 22 months, then they go live with another. is the NBC News. Of those 48% born to single parents, I mean uh to single moms, a high percentage of them become criminals, drug abusers, alcohol abusers, high school dropouts, sexually permissive, welfare, and sexually transmitted diseases. And they know this. Fox News, uh, you know, the Center for Disease and Control, all of these people know this. President Obama knows these statistics. Listen to this one. Are you ready for this one? You young ones, listen to this. You young males, listen to this. 93,000 United States men and boys were raped last year. Now is women raping them? This is from the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense and Fox News. 19,000 military women were raped last year, and more than once. 5,000 military men were raped last year, and only 8% are punished. And folks, if they have that many recorded, how many you think happened and no one said anything? Do we have a problem in America? And our Congress is not addressing or telling Americans about these situations.

▶ 28:51 105 people commit suicide every day. You young hearing that? 105, a lot more than all the shootings in the schools. 8 and a half of them are young people every day, young people. Eight and a half are committing suicide. You see, Bible moral people don’t commit suicide. Are you there? The Bible says he hasn’t given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of what? Sound mind, a solid mind. Sound mind people don’t commit suicide, and they don’t hurt other people. That was good. See, Christians don’t have a confused mind. We’re not confused. We have a sound mind, a solid mind, a strong mind. 49% of the unemployed are under age 34. That’s really a disaster. That’s really hurting in America, that our young people are the highest of the unemployed. Is this clear? Are we lining up to Sodom and Gomorrah? How many know the Bible says we’re saved by hope? I just gave you that verse a couple weeks ago. Hallelujah. How many Christians have never heard that verse? They always heard you say by faith through grace and not of ourselves, not a work. We saved by hope. We have great hope in his name. Amen. We have hope for America. We have hope for our youth. We have hope for our family, because God is not a man that he should lie. What he says he will do. And he uses consistent, faithful people like you to reach the inconsistent, unfaithful people that need to be reached. Amen. Hallelujah. So Bible morality preaches repentance and repents.