The Abraham Story Part 17
A Flood of Fire
Michael Ryan Stotler
Part of Genesis
June 23, 2025

Genesis 19:15-22

Genesis 19:23-26

Avraham, the Righteous Intercessor

Genesis 19:27-29

When the righteous intercessor, on the high place, appeals to God’s justice, Yahweh will listen and show mercy. —Tim Mackie, The Bible Project

Sodom and Gomorrah and the Flood: Icons of Divine Justice

Deuteronomy 29:23-28
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
Isaiah 1:9-10
Isaiah 3:8-9
Amos 4:11-12
Zephaniah 2:9
Lamentations 4:6

Corruption, Judgment, and the Righteous Remnant

The Vocabulary of Human Corruption

  • violence (סמח)
  • sexual abuse
  • the outcry (הקעצ/הקעז)

The Vocabulary of Judgment

  • ruin (תחש/תיחשה)
  • sweep away (הפס)
  • wipe out (החמ)
  • die (תומ)
  • expire (עוג)
  • rain/flood waters (םימ/ריטמה)

The Vocabulary of the Righteous Remnant

  • Noah / rest / comfort (םחנ/חונ/חנ)
  • remain / remnant (ראש/ראשנ)
  • escape / refugee (טלמה/טלמ)
  • flee (סונ)
  • images of refuge: mountain (רה) / cave (הרעמ) / ark (הבת) / house (תיבה) / shadow (לצ)
  • life / to keep alive (היחה/יח)

Jude 5-7
2 Peter 2:4-9

The Blessing of Seed Distorted

Genesis 19:30-38

Moab, Ammon, and Sibling Rivalry

The Hostility of Moab and Ammon

The Future Reconciliation of Moab and Ammon

Asteroid?

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Two LORD

Why is the Godhead FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE In Modern JUDAISM?

Bibliography

https://bibleproject.com/classroom/abraham

Middleton, J. Richard. Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2021.

Cotter, David W. Genesis. Edited by Jerome T. Walsh, Chris Franke, and David W. Cotter. Berit Olam Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2003.

Josephus, Flavius, and William Whiston. The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1987.

Richard N. Longenecker, “The Melchizedek Argument of Hebrews: A Study in the Development and Circumstantial Expression of New Testament Thought,” in Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology: Essays in Honor of George E. Ladd (ed. Robert Guelich, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), 161.

https://bible.org/article/melchizedek-covenantal-figure-biblical-theology-eschatological-royal-priesthood#P8_421

Anders Aschim, “Melchizedek and Jesus: 11QMelchizedek and the Epistle to the Hebrews,” in The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism: Papers from the St. Andrews Conferences on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus (eds. Carey Newman, James Davila, and Gladys Lewis, JSJSup. 63; Leiden: Brill, 1999), 130.

Paul J. Kobelski, Melchizedek and Melchiresa (CBQMS 10; Washington DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1981), 126-7.

https://bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-Shem-was-Melchizedek-Masoretic-chronology-Messiah-Jesus-Christ-priesthood.htm

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/history-circumcision-0010398

https://www.gotquestions.org/city-gate.html