Welcome to EBible Fellowship’s Bible study in the Book of Genesis. Tonight is study #49 of Genesis, chapter 19. We are going to read Genesis 19:32-36:

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.

I will stop reading there. In our last study, we were discussing the wine. Proverbs 31 tells us that it is not for kings to drink wine – it is not for the true elect children of God. Isaiah 28:7 said, “But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way.” Wine can point to false doctrines or false gospels. They err through “wine.”

In this passage, Lot is a type of Christ, just as he was when he interceded on behalf of Zoar. God heard his intercessory prayer and spared all that were within the “little city,” pointing to God saving the remnant of elect.

Lot’s daughters are a type and figure of true believers that are not elect. I am sorry to have to say it, but it is what the Bible is teaching. There are people that go very far (at least outwardly) in accord with the truth of the Bible. It happened during the church age. It happened when God ended the church age and these people came out. We know this because many have gone back to the churches, proving they are not God’s elect, despite having given the appearance of being God’s elect for many years. We cannot know the heart of anyone and we are not pointing the finger at any individual, but God does so when He uses the example of Lot’s wife. Christ warned that we are not to go back into the house to get your stuff, and then He added, “Remember Lot’s wife.” God killed her for looking back from behind Him and desiring to return to the churches in her heart.

Lot’s daughters passed many tests. They were continuing on and they were apparently faithful as they followed their father. Again, Lot would identify with the Word of God. In causing Lot to drink wine, it is as if these two true believers are now attempting to (falsely) use Christ, who is the Word made flesh, and the Bible. In 2Corinthians 11, God refers to another gospel or another Christ. They are synonymous. To take the Gospel and pervert it is the same as taking Christ and perverting Him. That is what these daughters are doing with their father. They are causing him to become drunk to have their own way or their own ideas satisfied. They want their plan and their will to be done, rather than the will of God. They looked around in their circumstances and they concluded that there could not be children any longer because there was not a man to come in unto them after the manner of all the earth, so they decided they would use their father Lot. They would give him wine and cause him to be drunk and then they would have children. It was a diabolical plan. It was very deceitful, pointing to those in these days after the Tribulation that hear God’s people sharing the Bible and declaring that the door is shut, but they will not have it.

However, that was also the message we declared in the years leading up to May 21, 2011, as we shared that it would be the day the door would shut. That was the significance of that 7,000-year timeline falling on that date which had the underlying Hebrew calendar date of “the seventeenth day of the second month,” matching with the very day God shut the door of the ark seven thousand years earlier and the flood waters began. God shut the door. We were warning people that He would shut the door and that they needed to beseech Him before the decree come to pass and before the day of wrath arrived, as it says in Zephaniah, chapter 2. They must seek JEHOVAH “before” the door shut, not “after” the door shut. And now we are living in the time after that date, but these people still insist upon seeking the Lord currently. If God has shut the door and put out the lights of the Gospel in salvation, there cannot be “spiritual children” born. It is not possible. There can be no one “born again” to drink the milk of the Word. No one can be born again from that date (May 21, 2011) until the end of this world. There are no more “children.” That is what God’s people have come to accept as the will of God and we do not fight against the will of God. If that is the Lord’s determination (and it is), we must say, “Very well, Lord, as you please.” We are nobody. We do not have the wisdom of God. We do not have the power to save our own loved ones that may be included in those that are shut out of the kingdom of heaven. This time is just as painful for the elect child of God as for anyone else, so do not “buy it” for a second when these people are trying to give the appearance of being caring and loving and merciful, unlike those of us that are teaching the shut door of heaven: “You are cruel and ruthless and heartless and cold!” That is nowhere near the truth. They are simply trying to justify their actions and their wrongdoing, just as Lot’s two daughters did. They had a good reason (in their minds) for doing what they did, as it says in Genesis 19:32:

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

They tried to act like it was all for their father’s sake. It was all for the Word’s sake, as Lot typified Christ, the Word of God. It is as if these people are saying, “It is all for the Word of God’s sake, you see, that there must still be salvation and people must still be able to become saved. It is out of love for the Word of God and our fellow unman, unlike the cruel people that talk about the end of salvation. Away with you and your idea!”

Again, it all sounds good, just as Lot’s daughters had their own reason and justification for their actions and, yet, it was all wrong. It was ugly sin. In causing their father to drink wine, they were engaging in another gospel or a wrong doctrine. When someone develops another gospel or changes a doctrine of God, it is an ugly thing.

Someone might say, “You have no basis for linking this to Proverbs 31 where it says it is not for kings to drink wine because Lot did drink wine and he was elect of God, so you cannot say that what the daughters did was wrong. Yes – it does say that they “erred through wine” in Isaiah 28 and it ties in to false doctrine, but in other places “wine” is used in a good way to typify the true Gospel. So, you are not being faithful to the Bible by laying out the whole picture.”

OK, let us lay it all out. Where did they get the wine? As I mentioned in the last study, Lot and his daughters did not check into a mountain resort of some kind. There was no hotel or bar where they could get wine, so where did it come from? Obviously, there are only two possibilities. Since they were citizens of Sodom and they had a little bit of time before they had to flee, they could not take a big piece of furniture, but they could have filled a sack or two with food and drink. They probably added the wine. They were unsure of the situation. It was not until they came out of the city of Sodom that God gave them permission to go to Zoar. So, they were “running for their lives” and, very likely, the wine came from their hometown. There is a slight chance that they picked up the wine in Zoar. There would have been stores there. They may have stayed in an inn, so that is possible. But, the little city of Zoar was surrounded by bigger cities like Sodom and Gomorrah; and there was also Admah and Zeboim. It appears that Zoar was the smallest of the cities of the plain, but, typically, the smaller cities would get their merchandise from the bigger cities. That is where the industries and major markets would be, and the farmers would go to market with their produce, like wine. So, whether they got the wine in Zoar or they brought it from their hometown, we know that they did not get the wine in the mountain. They brought the wine with them, so let us turn to Deuteronomy 32:32-33:

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Here, God is describing a false gospel or another kind of gospel. He is using the figure of “Sodom and Gomorrah.” They are the vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah. The two daughters are literally serving wine to their father that came from a vine of Sodom and a field of Gomorrah. It came from that part of the world. They were drinking wine made in Sodom and Gomorrah and giving their father this wine of Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you see how this ties in to Isaiah 28, verse 7? Do you see how it ties in to their wrongdoing? They are not being faithful or true to the Word of God, the Bible, as they are distorting, perverting and changing things to satisfy their own desires. They are insisting, and they will not be refused: “We must have children. There must be salvation and we are willing to do anything to attempt to have children, even the ugliest thing imaginable.”

God had arranged the circumstances. Even if they thought they were all alone in the world, it was God that arranged the circumstances. They should have been satisfied with the will of God. If it had been God’s intention to allow humanity to die out, they still should not have engaged in incest. They plotted and planned and carried it out, but their answer should have been, “As you will, Lord. May your perfect will be done. We cannot do anything outside your will.” There is nothing in the Bible that permits this kind of relationship between parents and their children. Yes, in the beginning there were relationships between a brother and sister, the children of Adam and Eve, but we do not read of Adam fathering children with his own daughters. He fathered children with his wife Eve. You see, it ruins the whole picture of the Gospel for a father to have relations with his daughters. The Bible does not allow that for a moment.

There was one historical account where Judah had a daughter-in-law named Tamar. His son died, and he gave Tamar another son (as was the Law) to raise up seed to his dead brother, but this son also died. Judah had a third son, but he delayed giving him as her husband because he did not want him to die. Then Tamar took matters into her own hands and arranged circumstances to lay with her father-in-law, but they were not a father/daughter. There is nothing like this in the Bible, so God is emphasizing how ugly it is today for people to refuse to do His will and follow His Word, even though these people try to make it sound as if they are being noble. But there is nothing noble about transgressing the Law of God. They try to sound holy: “We are stewards of salvation. We are upholding salvation!” But there is nothing holy about transgressing the Law of God, because He has ended salvation. They try to make it sound good, but there is nothing good in transgressing the Law of God and usurping the will and intention of God concerning any matter. It is always ugly, ugly sin, in every case.

Satan and his devices are very consistent as he brings a wrong doctrine or a false gospel and make it sound good and just and holy and pure. But it is the wrong gospel. It is not the true Gospel. The false gospel says, “Christ died for everyone.” By comparison, the true Gospel sounds harsh: “Christ died for a limited number.” The false gospel says, “God loves you and God loves everyone in the world.” How rosy! How wonderful! But it is the true Gospel that sounds much harsher, as it says, “God loved Jacob and hated Esau. God loves His elect people and He hates the rest of mankind that are not saved.” It sounds very harsh, but it is the truth. And it is the way of Satan and it is the way of the natural-minded man to say, “Christ established His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” They apply that verse to the corporate, external church, but the true Gospel says the church age is over. It is very harsh, is it not? It is very beautiful to say, “Well, God would never shut the door of heaven while there are still so many people alive on the earth and time continues.” It sounds so lovely and wonderful. It sounds so pure and holy and good, except that it is not true. It is not true. God has locked in the date of judgment. He locked in that date with the day of the time of Noah when He shut the door of the ark. He wants us to know the door (of heaven) is shut. It sounds harsh. It is grievous, but it is typically how God reveals truth. It is normally very difficult and hard to hear. It is not an easy thing.

So, Lot’s daughters had their justification wherein they would preserve seed to their father. By the way, to preserve seed is not the same thing as raising up seed, as some have carelessly said because they have not checked it out in the Word. Or, maybe they did check it out, but they held back because they did not want people to know what the word “preserve” really means. Look it up and, Lord willing, when we get together in our next Bible study we will look at that and see what Lot’s daughters had in mind by preserving seed unto their father.