You flunk today's Bible Study class:
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
--Ezekiel 16:49
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Ezekiel 16:50 KJV (50) And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
2 Peter 2:6-8 KJVR (6) And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; (7) And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (8) (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
Jude 1:7 KJVR (7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Actually, you do, steve-b. Read the next verse and the rest of the Bible. Here is verse 49 & 50 using the same version (KJV) you used:
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.I never thought I'd see a freeper pull verse 49 out of its context. That's something I've only seen from gays and those pushing the homosexual agenda.
You distorted the subject. Study the Word in its full context. 16th Chapter of Ezekiel is describing The abominations that shall take place in the holy city of Jerusalem at the coming of the Antichrist, when he declares himself to be God, and from Jerusalem, Satan, in the form of the Antichrist will sit over his One World Government, and rule the world. The Antichrist will have total power over all people, except for the Elect of God.
Ezekiel 16:44 “Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, Saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter’.”
Ezekiel 16:45 “Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that loathed her husband and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.”
Ezekiel 16:46 “And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.”
Ezekiel 16:47 “Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.”
Samaria, was the capital city of the house of Israel, to the north, and the word “Samaria” means “watch mountain”. That sister of the house of Judah was the house of Israel. You remember Sodom and her sins. They have become stronger today, and they have taken a foothold in our society today. Sodom’s sins were supposed to be the worst sins that could ever be committed, and she had her little sisters around her, called Gomorrah, and they were all destroyed also. This is referring to the big cities and even the smaller cities of that end time that will be judged also. They are not going to get away with their sins.
Ezekiel 16:48 “As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters,”
When God makes a statement, “As I live”, it means that you can count on it. If you think that Sodom and Gomorrah were bad in comparison to the cities of today, they weren’t. The cities of today, in the end times, will become much worse, in the eyes of God.
Ezekiel 16:49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
Ezekiel 16:50 “And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”
The people of Sodom and Gomorrah thought it was funny, and humorous to mock God. God is saying in this Verse, I took them away [I destroyed them]. God got Lot and his daughters out of there, then He purified the town spiritually. He turned it to salt.