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The story of Lot escaping the fiery destruction against Sodom and its surrounding cities is much more than a mere condemnation of the world.

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Oh yes, that story should be a frightening alarm to each and every man, woman and child living in these last moments of earth’s history!

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Listen to God’s judgment of Sodom…”Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude 1:7

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In this above verse, God destroyed those naughty cities to be an example of what we need to flee from in these last moments prior to the great day of Judgment.

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But while the entire world needs to greatly fear that terrifying day of God’s wrath against mankind’s wickedness, this above verse from Jude has a special application to God’s professed people today!

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Listen to God’s warning to His Church today…”Behold, this was the iniquity of thy [our} sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” Ezekiel 16:49, 50

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In this above passage, God is trying to warn us against our pride, our selfishness, our materialistic abundance, our wasting of time, our haughtiness.

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No, the destruction of Sodom wasn’t so much for its perverseness, as it was for its proud and selfish pursuits.

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How are we using our time? Are we using it to good account? Are we redeeming the time?

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Or rather, are we squandering the precious hours of this day on vain/worthless pursuits?

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Is my life mired beneath a mountain of earthly pleasures and ambitious pursuits? Do these words of James 5:5 describe my own lifestyle: “Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter”? Am I wanton (longing and hungering) for the pleasures and treasures of this life? Are my ears longing to hear some new precious promise from Scripture? Or are my ears instead perked up for some news, social or political gossip from the TV, the radio, the Internet or the printed page? Does my money go for the enrichment of lost souls? Or do I rather keep it back for my own personal pursuits? Or maybe I simply heap it up together, storing it in earthly investments, “where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break in and steal? (see Matthew 6:19, 20 & James 5:3)

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Well, there is some very Good News! Oh yes, while the hour is late, there is still time to turn from this vain/meaningless world, and begin the ascent on that Heavenward pathway, the “Highway…the Way of Holiness”. We have everything to gain (everlasting life and joy for ourselves and our loved ones), and we have everything to lose: the choice is ours. “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. The ransom of a man’s life are his riches:” Proverbs 13:7, 8

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