"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." Here we have God's counsel for the surviving members of the family of Lot. Cursed is the man who makes flesh is his arm. for the consequence of wickedness God makes the city as the house nothingness, Beth Aven presented here is how the Holy Spirit is leading us to a similar flight and it is Jacob and not Lot and under different circumstances. "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it./nd he called the name of that place Bethel." The pillar of Jacob is a covenant, a foundation stone to establish who is the maker and builder of the house.(28.18-19) Bethel, El Bethel or Luz carry as with Zoar, three differing POV for the heir of promise. Thus the Lot episode serves as a foil to the Church of the first begotten. It is promised by Jesus Christ, "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name."(Rev.3.12)
The new name is yet in future but in the case of Jacob the name Israel is to indicate his testimony. " And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob./ And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."(32.28-29)
On the otherhand what is the testimony of Lot's wife? Nothing. Pillar of the house, of Beth Aven is just salt that ha s lost its savour.
vv.25-26 "And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground./But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt".
"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." Here we have God's counsel for the surviving members of the family of Lot. Cursed is the man who makes flesh is his arm. for the consequence of wickedness God makes the city as the house nothingness, Beth Aven presented here is how the Holy Spirit is leading us to a similar flight and it is Jacob and not Lot and under different circumstances. "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it./nd he called the name of that place Bethel." The pillar of Jacob is a covenant, a foundation stone to establish who is the maker and builder of the house.(28.18-19) Bethel, El Bethel or Luz carry as with Zoar, three differing POV for the heir of promise. Thus the Lot episode serves as a foil to the Church of the first begotten. It is promised by Jesus Christ, "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name."(Rev.3.12)
The new name is yet in future but in the case of Jacob the name Israel is to indicate his testimony. " And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob./ And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."(32.28-29)
On the otherhand what is the testimony of Lot's wife? Nothing. Pillar of the house, of Beth Aven is just salt that ha s lost its savour.
vv.25-26 "And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground./But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt".
In the first para,
"for the consequence of wickedness God makes the city as the house nothingness,"
please read as
"For the wickedness of Sodom God makes the city as the house of nothingness,"
Thanks,
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