Sorry I missed the show last night but listening to the repeat show with an act of God made me think of Genesis 19 1-29
(The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. “My Lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.” But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.” Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.” “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door. The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.” So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.” When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” But Lot said to them, “No, my Lords, please! Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.” He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.) By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Gen. 19:1-29 NIV
Is the lightning strike a start of something bigger to come?
That's awesome bro, one thing I was told by a pastor each give 60% rather than 50/50 because sometimes we can fail as humans but that way we lift each other up in hard times
You are right with keeping God our #1. When we had counseling with our pastor at the begining of June b4 our wedding he taught us to keep God our #1 our spouse #2 and we will find a way to make things work and never threaten divorce. Stay true to each other.
So our first day of being married we went to church b4 our honeymoon. We are going to try to stay true to each other. We know friends and ex friends that are now divorced who idolized see over God and now they had to deal with the financial burden here on earth but have to answer at the pearl gates for their judgment on their actions.
I've viewed California as sodom and gomorrah for years so very possible. I know all of our views differ some but I am more into old testament than new. I also understand that not everything in the bible is true and it was hard to realize at first years ago when I began to study different religions and origins of things and even possible archeological evidence of some of the stories of OT. So for the most part I stayed in the OT since. Christian deism, is also appealing to me but I have not been down that much. Good points that you bring up and it seems history is repeating itself. Sodom and gomorrah and the destruction of the promise land. The promise land was also destroyed for the way the people turned. I feel that, even if King Solomon was not real, the story seems to fit right now. The promise land became over tolerant because of all the wives he had. He kept his beliefs but his wives were many and some praticed idol worship. That is the reason the promise land, what some call Israel was destroyed. They contiued in the Holy land to disrespect the Creator, as has been going on here. We have been over tolerant, we allow things that do not line up with our own beliefs in order to avoud hurt feelings or in the name of equality. I see it as a very thin line and we have crossed it. We have let things go because we don't care what others do and that is ok to a point but when we allow it to influence just by allowing it around we corrupt future generations and each generation grows further away from God and into wickedness. You can clearly see the pattern of what we are going through now. The vile things that are being pushed and the reason so many accept it, is because they are the future generations that have been corrupted and with passing time it contunues to get worse. That is why we are dealing with the blind and confused. In a way, we have ourselves to blame and we cannot say we are free of fault from what has happned. We conservatives crossed the thin line of tolerance. Now we have evil, vile, cry babies, and mentally blind. We allowed this, just as King Solomon did. It is one thing to ignore what a person does behind closed doors, but when we allow it to become laws or socially acceptable, it becomes an influence and the evil grows.
We coddled them and now they turn on us. We watched out tounges, in fear of hurting feelings and kept our own thoughts and beliefs to ourselves. If a child throw3s a fit every time they want something in a store, do we give in every time? If we do, what are the consequences? Do we teach that child anything of value? Now the consequences. The child does not learn anything good and the parents also have consequences when they try to go in public with a child they turned into a brat. Turning the other cheek has consequences and was never taught in OT. In some cases, it can apply but not when the consequences cross the thin line. God should be #1 above the feelings of others imo. I have been guilty just the same. We did not partake in evil, but we allowed it to influence and grow . Now the consequences. Those are just my thoughts and the way I have seen it over the years play out. There is more to come I'm sure. No matter your beliefs, even Jesus said do the will of the father. The will of the father goes back to OT. I see the promise land as the country and sodom and gomorrah where I live😣 God bless you bro😊