Welcome to EBible Fellowship’s Bible study in the Book of Genesis. Tonight is study #48 of Genesis, chapter 19. We are going to read Genesis 19:30-38:

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. nd the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

I will stop reading there. We have been very carefully going through this chapter, verse by verse. We have seen that this is pointing to Judgment Day, spiritually, with the falling of the fire and brimstone. It deals with the time after Judgment Day began.

If you are ever asked where God speaks in the Bible of a prolonged period of Judgment Day, you can use the same two examples the Lord Jesus used when speaking of the Day of Judgment. The first example is the flood of Noah’s day. After the flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month in Noah’s 600th year, did the world end immediately? No, it did not. It ended for all the unsaved because they were drowned, but the elect were left on the earth to go through the prolonged judgment process in which the flood waters prevailed over the earth, and then they receded. That indicates that after May 21, 2011, there is a time period in which God is testing and trying His people. What were Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives doing during that year after God shut the door of the ark? They were feeding the animals, including sheep. They were feeding sheep the entire time, and this relates to the task the Lord has assigned us after Judgment Day began.

Or, the other example you can use is this account in Genesis 19 where the fire and brimstone has fallen, but the historical account continued. Abraham viewed the destruction from far off and Lot and his two daughters went to Zoar and then to the mountains. Also, Lot’s wife was turned to a pillar of salt after the destruction of the fire and brimstone.

So, we see these two key accounts and the Lord gives us very pertinent information for our day as we live on the earth during the Day of Judgment “in those days after that tribulation.”

We have seen that Lot feared to dwell in Zoar and he and his two daughters went to the mountains and dwelt in a cave. We saw that a cave identifies with the grave and the grave identifies with “hell.” After the spiritual fire and brimstone began to fall on May 21, 2011, the Lord turned the world into a “giant graveyard.” He brought the whole earth into the condition of hell by shutting the door and fixing the spiritual state of all people; the condition of our souls have been established and will not change. If you are saved, you will remain saved. If you were not saved by that date, your unsaved condition is fixed, just as if you had died unsaved. All throughout history, when a person died, their spiritual state was fixed. The potential to become saved and experience being translated from the kingdom of Satan into God’s kingdom ended at the point of physical death. So, too, that potential has ended now that the world has entered into the condition of hell.

Lot and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. The two daughters are the ones we will focus on, because God mentions the two daughters several times. We can gather that the two daughters were not saved, just as we can gather that Lot’s wife was not saved. Lot was saved because he was called “righteous” and the Lord identifies Lot as elect. Remember that the Lord was waiting for Lot to enter into Zoar before He would rain down fire and brimstone. He was not waiting for Lot’s wife or the two daughters to enter the city. It was just Lot, because Lot was truly saved.

We might think that Lot’s two daughters were also saved because they had come so far. They had been obedient, unlike the other married daughters that had stayed behind in the city of Sodom. Lot’s daughters had passed the test and they had not “looked back.” Lot’s wife failed that test and she looked back and she was destroyed. The daughters had come very far with Lot as they followed their father. First, they went to Zoar and from Zoar they went on to the mountains. We might think, “These are faithful true believers.” That is who they represent, but not actually true children of God. In our day, we have to add, “elect true believers” or those that are truly born again, but there are others that know the language because they were under the teaching of Mr. Camping for many years and, yet, they never became saved. You know, it is amazing how far someone can go in intellectually understanding the Bible and even understanding certain parables, at least to a degree. But they do not truly understand, because when they are put to the test and when the “fire” of testing is applied, they back off and leave off believing.

That is something an elect child of God would not do because we cannot deny the truth due to the spirit God has placed within us. This is the reason that down through history the elect children of God would die for the faith; they would be burned at the stake or hanged or slain in some horrible fashion because they refused to denounce a true and faithful Bible teaching or doctrine. You see, that is how important doctrine is to the child of God because it is the doctrine of Christ; it is the Word of God. To let go of a doctrine taught by the Bible is to let go of Christ and to deny Christ Himself. An elect child of God will not do that. There may be those that have done so early in their Christian walk or that have sinned in that way temporarily, and then God restores them, like He did Peter. Yes – that can happen, and it is sin, like any other sin. But, typically, the elect child of God will not deny Christ for any length of time; we may sin momentarily in that way. When these true believers that are not elect true believers have the “fire” put to them (as it has been since May 21, 2011), like the doctrine of a date for the end or the end of the church age, and so forth, they will draw back from the truth. In their drawing back, it will reveal that they never had a true understanding and that they never heard the voice of Christ, like the true elect of God.

Lot’s two daughters are typifying those people. They are not really typifying individuals that went back to the churches, as does Lot’s wife. It is very clear what the judgment of God is for going back to the churches; she was turned into a pillar of salt. The people represented by Lot’s daughters went to the mountain (the Word of God) in this prolonged judgment period along with the elect, but then they are going to develop their own understanding or their own gospel. They will insist upon it. They will demand it. As a matter of fact, they will refuse God’s Gospel. And whatever God decrees is God’s Gospel, and these can be very difficult things, like the end of the church age and the shutting of the door of heaven. These are very grievous things, but it is God’s Gospel and He is the One that decrees what is truth and what is not truth. Truth has to do with His actions in His “times and seasons,” as God opens and shuts doors according to His perfect will. But it is often at that point, like when God shuts a door that was previously open, that these people that do not have the spiritual ears to hear the voice of Christ, so they refuse it. They are refusing God Himself. Again, Lot’s two daughters typify those people.

Someone might ask, “How can you say that?” Let us read, again, Genesis 19:31:

Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

I do not know how old Lot was at that time. The Bible does not tell us. But he was Abraham’s nephew. It is probable that Abraham was much older than Lot, but in the previous chapter God came to Abraham when he was 99 and Sarah was 89 and told them that they would have a child at the set time in the next year. So, the daughters are also failing to understand how wrong they are in saying, “There is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.” They had just been in Zoar. They were not the only ones alive in Zoar. No fire and brimstone fell within the city of Zoar, so Zoar had inhabitants. It was a little city and there were not as many people as had been in Sodom and Gomorrah, but there would have been men and they would have seen them. Perhaps, in their fear to dwell there, they may have thought that Zoar would eventually be destroyed, but whatever they were thinking, they were wrong. They were wrong about the fate of the city of Zoar. They were wrong in thinking there was not a man in the earth to come in unto them. Historically, they may have thought they were the only ones left in the world, but it was an incorrect assumption, never mind that they saw people that were alive in Zoar. We also know that Abraham was viewing the destruction of the fire and brimstone from a distance, so Abraham and Sarah were alive. He also had many servants, male and female, that were still alive and there would also have been other people around that area. So, the daughters were wrong.

However, God is permitting this kind of thinking. God is allowing Lot’s two daughters to think along these lines for a very important reason, as He sets up this picture of their desire to have children. It is an urgent desire. They think they must go in unto their own father because there is not a man to produce children. What this is illustrating and teaching us is that childbirth points to fruitfulness and fruitfulness points to salvation, especially for the “seed.” They were concerned about preserving seed unto their father. (They said this twice.) The “seed” identifies with the elect. They wanted children that identified with the “seed.” The idea is that they wanted children of the “seed” to come forth after the fire and brimstone has fallen and after God has brought the judgment. Of course, that ties in to people that insist that we are not to “touch” on anything the Bible has to say about salvation, but if God is teaching, who is “touching” on it? He is doing it. It is His Word and since it comes forth from the Word of God, the Bible, it is God’s declaration and it is according to His will, not man’s will.

We simply go to the Bible and God reveals His will to us. We are doorkeepers, in a sense, when it comes to salvation. When the great and effectual door was open during the last (about) seventeen years of the Great Tribulation period, we responded, “Wonderful, Lord,” and we went forth with His Word with joy, in hopes He would use it to save His elect. The God of the Bible is the God who opens doors and He is the same God who also shuts doors. And some people have a problem with the latter, but it is the same God and the same Bible that brings forth these truths in their “times and seasons.” One “time and season” was the open door and the other situation was true when that “time and season” came to an end and Judgment Day began. In fact, it is very appropriate and fitting to teach that the door of salvation is shut in the Day of Judgment. Most people would recognize that, but the problem is many people deny it is the Day of Judgment. Due to their own blindness, they deny that Judgment Day has come, so they resist everything about it because they cannot perceive these things.

But God’s people do perceive them and, therefore, we have no other option but to declare what God tells us to declare from His Word – the door is shut. You see, Lot’s daughters are going to make their first error. They were wrong about their situation and circumstances. They are going to take that error and build upon it to develop greater error. So, it says in Genesis 19:32-33:

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

They were wrong in their initial assessment and when someone starts with a wrong foundation and then builds upon it, everything they have built is all wrong. Now they would devise a plot to make their father drink wine and get him so drunk he will not “perceive” when the daughters lie with him. He would not even know what was going on. Is it possible for someone to get so drunk they do not know what is going on around them? Yes – it happens all the time. This tells us that to get their plan to work, they had to make their father drink wine, so he would not be aware of their plan. Why could they not just reason with him? It is because he never would have allowed them to do it. It was sinful. It was wrong. This is one of the ugliest passages in the entire Bible. There is nothing good or noble about what they did. It was horrible sin and to make sure it would work, they had to get their father drunk. And drunkenness is a sin, is it not? This is especially true for a child of God. Remember what God says in Proverbs 31:4-5:

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Spiritually, all God’s people are kings. Lot was a spiritual king, just as any of the elect are a king in the sight of God, so it was not for him to drink wine. But it was a very trying time, was it not? It was such an awful time. There had been so much destruction. They could probably still see the fire burning from the mountain where they dwelt. If they came to the mouth of the cave and looked down upon the plain of Jordan, they would certainly have seen the smoke, which would remind Lot of the daughters and sons in law that had been left in Sodom. They were all dead. It would remind Lot of his wife whose body was down there as a pillar of salt. He had lost all his comforts; he may have had a nice home and valuable possessions. He had lost it all and he was now in a cave in the mountain with just two of his daughters. Everything would have seemed bleak.

Apparently, Lot’s daughters had brought wine with them. Lord willing, we will think about that in a later study. Where did they get the wine? They had not checked into a mountain resort with a bar, like we have today. It was a cave. It was unfurnished. It was a cave of stone and dirt. Undoubtedly, they had brought a few things with them, including some wine. They caused their father to drink when he was in a weak emotional condition, no doubt. With some urging, the daughters got their father, a righteous and true child of God, to partake of the wine. It may have made him feel a little bit better, as alcohol tends to make people feel a little bit better about things. Then they may have said, “Here, have some more wine, father,” and they got him so drunk he did not do what he was doing, and they could fulfill their plan. But it was all wrong and the wine is not something that would relate to anything positive or good. Remember what God said in Isaiah, chapter 28 concerning wine. It says in Isaiah 28:7:

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way…

Who is the way? Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” Wine causes a person to go “out of the way” or away from the truth of the Bible. Lord willing, when we get together in our next Bible study, we will continue to discuss Lot’s two daughters and how they represent so-called “true believers” that are not the true elect of God in our Day of Judgment.