Shadowland: Beginnings: Week 18

Genesis 13

The Testing of Lot

13:2 The riches acquired in Egypt will "pierce through with many sorrows" - 1 Timothy 6:10 (as will the handmaiden, Hagar).
• 13:3 "went on his journeys" - retraced his steps, back to where he started, "where his tent had been at the beginning."
• 13:4 "the altar which he had made there at first" - emphasizing that the sojourn in Egypt was a total loss.
• 13:7 Unbelievers observed the strife between believers.
• 13:10 "lifted up his eyes" - as in Genesis 3, the eyes are a key gate of temptation. 3:6, Joshua 7:21, 1 John 2:16 "like the land of Egypt" - Lot is still longing for Egypt.
• 13:13 "sinners before the LORD" - in God's face, as with Nimrod.
• 13:14 After Abram takes another step to fully obey God's instruction, God again gives him more light.
• 13:17 God gives Abram a vision
• 13:18 "Mamre" - vision or fatness. Hebron - fellowship. Fellowship is first mentioned when Abram fully obeys.

The Descent of Lot

• Longing for the riches of Egypt 13:10 - Abram walked by faith (13:17), Lot by sight (13:10)
• Lifted up his eyes toward a land like Egypt
• Dwelt in the cities of the plain. 13:12
• Pitched his tent toward Sodom.
• Dwelt in Sodom 14:2
• Delivered from Sodom in Genesis 14, but returned to Sodom Amos 4:11
• Elder of Sodom 19:1
• Daughters married men of Sodom.
• Lack of fruit 18:32
• Vexed in soul 2 Peter 2:7-8
• Powerless testimony 19:14
• Still attached to Sodom 19:16
• Snatched as a branch from the fire. Zechariah 3, 1 Corinthians 3:15