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Was the flood a judgement of God?

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English: Dead sea, panorama (1895) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) " God spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly." ( 2 Peter 2:5-6 ) These two verses speak graphically of two different kinds of terrible physical convulsions, both of which were divine judgments. The volcanic upheaval that sent fire from heaven pouring over the wicked cities of the plains was called an "overthrow" (Greek katastrophe, from which, obviously, we get our English word "catastrophe"). Great upheavals such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and hurricanes are rightly called catastrophes. But such events are only local or regional in extent and occur relatively often. There was one event, however, which was unique in all his

Are we like Lot making bad choices?

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Molnár József: Ábrahám kiköltözése (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." ( Psalm 1:1 )   One of the most tragic figures in all of Scripture is that of compromising Lot, Abraham 's nephew, who renounced the land of promise for the sinful society of Sodom , ultimately to lose everything of importance.   His slide into apostasy, as traced in  Genesis 12-19 , seems to parallel the progression described in today's text of not becoming a godly believer.   Lot is first mentioned as traveling with Abram and Sarai from their homeland to Canaan in obedience to God 's command ( Genesis 12:4-5 ; 13:5 ). A petty problem arises which surely could have been resolved ( 13:6-10 ), but Lot chose ( v. 11 ) to walk in the counsel of the ungodly. "But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly" ( v. 13