God, Jesus & the Saints v. Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, the Ancient Serpent, the Dragon
September 23, 2025
Hidden Gems: Some Bible Verses “Speak” to You
September 24, 2025God, Jesus & the Saints v. Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, the Ancient Serpent, the Dragon
September 23, 2025Hidden Gems: Some Bible Verses “Speak” to You
September 24, 2025Who Is the “Father of Faith” -- Abraham or Noah? Why?
The more I read, study, and reflect on Scripture, the more I realize God is a God of Love and the entire Bible has to be read from the point of view of God’s Love. It’s easy to see this simple point in such parables as “The Lost Sheep” and “The Prodigal Son.” But this theme runs throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
We read in Genesis 6 that “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually; and it repented the Lord that He had made man on the Earth and it grieved him in his heart. And the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man and beast and every creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.’ But Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord. … The Earth also was corrupt before God and the Earth was filled with violence … for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the Earth. And God said to Noah, ‘The end of all flesh is come before Me, for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the Earth.’” [Note here that God is a God of Heart and that His Pure Heart is revolted by the pervasive corruption of the hearts of men. He Himself first becomes aware of this, and then He communicates His findings with Noah, “a just man” who “walked with God.”]
The same format appears in Genesis 18 & 19 in the story of the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah. God and two angels appear to Abraham in the form of three men as Abraham sits in the door of his tent in the heat of the day in the plains of Mamre. First, the Lord thinks or says to Himself, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him?” We are then told what God expects from Abraham: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the Way of the LORD to do justice and judgment.” The key here is the importance of family tradition to ensure a lineage of godly people and a legacy of righteous government.
Then God speaks to Abraham: “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come unto Me.” Then, most remarkably, Abraham “reasons” with God, Who promises not to destroy the wicked cities if even ten righteous persons live therein. As the story proceeds, it is clear that there are no righteous citizens in the twin towns, so the angels tell Lot, “We will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the Face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” Lot and his daughters flee first to the little town of Zoar and then into the surrounding mountains. “The Sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire … and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.” But God spares Lot, Abraham’s nephew: “And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.” [ “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He reveals His secret unto His servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7) ]
We are then told what God expects from Abraham: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the Way of the LORD to do justice and judgment.”
