Genesis chapter 19, part 1

After reading chapter 19:

*The two angels that left Abraham arrived at Sodom, and Lot just happened to be sitting at the gate of the city. He insists they go home with him, where he feeds them.

* All the men of the city surround Lot's house and demand that Lot send the visitors out so they can have thier way with them. ( Yes, I know. I'm being a prude because of internet filters.) This sounds. almost like a zombie apocalypse movie.

*Apparently Lot is not in any danger, because he goes outside and calls these people his friends. He offers his virgin daughters to the men as a trade for the two angels. Because angels can't defend themselves and God won't rescue them? Hospitality to strangers is more important to Lot than his daughters. What a great guy. I wonder how his daughters felt at that moment.

*The men of the city begin to threaten Lot as well, but the angels inside the house pull Lot back in and magically blind those at the door.

*It seems that 10 righteous people could not be found, even among the women and children. If Sodom was such a horrendous place, why was Lot living there? So, the angels told Lot to take everyone who would go with him and get the heck out of there. The lord was about to destroy the city.

*Lot went back out to tell his future sons-in-law to get out of the city. (You mean he was planning on marrying his daughters to a couple of those villains?) They didn't believe him anyway.

*The angels grabbed Lot's family and led them out of the city, telling them to run as fast as they could to the mountains without looking back. Instead, Lot negotiated for a small nearby town. When they reached the town safely, minus Lot's wife, burning sulphur rained down, destroying the cities and vegetation of the entire plain. It's a shame that no concrete evidence of their existence, or their destruction, was left for future archaeologists to find. Now it looks just like this story might never have happened.

*The story ends with Abraham standing above, surveying the smoking landscape. Very cinematic.