“Avraham got up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before YAHWEH, and looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, scanning the entire plain. There before him the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace! But when YAHWEH destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot […]

I want to explore a bit the reason or reasons why God destroyed Sodom. The overwhelming general consensus on the matter especially as pushed by the evangelical Christian crowd is that God’s destruction of Sodom was a blanket condemnation of homosexuality. Before jumping to any conclusions, let’s take a look at what the prophet Ezekiel […]

“The two angels came to S’dom that evening, when Lot was sitting at the gate of S’dom. Lot saw them, got up to greet them and prostrated himself on the ground. He said, “Here now, my lords, please come over to your servant’s house. Spend the night, wash your feet, get up early, and go on […]

In chapter 19 of Genesis, we run headlong into situations that are just outrageous to our modern sensibilities of social common sense. Again, it is important to remind ourselves to interpret things through the lens of the ancient Middle Eastern culture we find ourselves immersed in as we walk through the Torah. First, in verse […]

I want to you ask you a question that I think may seriously overturn certain theological assumptions you have harbored all of your life. On the precipice of Armageddon, whose feet will stand on the Mount of Olives and split the mountain in two? Well, let’s take a look at the Scriptures for our answer. […]