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Hello everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk.

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We're so blessed you're joining us here today.

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In the prior episode, we left off, we finished up with Genesis chapter 13, where Abram had finally obeyed God and separated himself from his family.

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Lot was the last remaining member.

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They'd hung out together and now there's starting to be this contention between his tribe and.

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Or his servants and Lot's servants.

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So he said, you know, we can't do this.

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We're family here.

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Just pick which way you want to go and I'll go the other way because the land's not big enough for both of us.

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And in 13, we said Lot lifted up his eyes in verse 13, chapter 13, verse 10, and he looked at the plain of Jordan and he.

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This is before Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

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So first he's looking at sin, and then Lot chose him the plane of Jordan and journeyed east towards there.

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And so first you look at sin, next you move towards sin because it's drawn you in.

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And then you partake of sin.

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And that's where Lot messed up, right, because he figured he, he could, you know, he's, he's rich enough, he can be one of the rulers over there.

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He can be one of the honchos in this town, right?

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And that's, you know, it says in verse 13, chapter 13, verse 13, men of Sodom are wicked and sinners before the Lord.

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But he, in verse 12, you know, it says that he dwelled in the cities of the plain, pitched his tent towards Sodom.

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In other words, first he looked at it, then he moved towards it, then he lived there.

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He partook of the sin.

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He may not have been partaking of the homosexuality and all that stuff, but he was making, we'd say he was, he was doing all right for himself in Sodom and Gomorrah.

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All right, now let's go to verse chapter 14.

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It came to pass in the days of Amrafel, king of Shinar, Ariak, king of Eleazar, Chedalamar, king of Elam and title king of nations, that these made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Bersha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemabur, king of Zibeum and king and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddom, which is the salt sea.

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12 years they had served Chatel Amar.

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And in the 13th year they rebelled in the 14th year.

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Cheddar came and the kings that were with him and smote the refiums and Ashtarath, Karnam and the ziziums and Ham and the Imams and again my Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic and all that probably is way off, but I'm doing the best I can here.

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Shave Radio Karithium, verse 6.

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And the Horites and their Mount Seir under Elperon, which is by the wilderness.

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So he took over the whole area.

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His armies are invading now, right?

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And they returned, came to in verse seven, came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazian Tamar.

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And there went out the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Adamah and the king of Zibeon and the king of Bela, the same as Zoar.

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And they joined the battle with them in the vale of Sidim with Chedalamar, the king of Elam and with title king of nations and Amraphel, king of Shinar and Arioch, king of Elisar.

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Four kings, basically four kings against five.

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And the veil of Siddham, right?

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Now the four kings here, the, the soldiers came and they routed the entire region because of the rebellion.

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That's basically what's happened here.

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The armies invaded to get everything back under control because these guys were rebelling against King Chatel Amar.

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All right, so verse 10, chapter 14, verse 10.

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The veil of Siddham was full of slime pits.

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And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there.

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They got stuck so that they remained.

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Those that remained fled to the mountains.

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So here we see.

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Basically this is what happens in our cities today, isn't it?

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They rebel against authority.

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They think we don't need you, we, you can't tell us what to do.

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They rebel.

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And because they rebelled, the cities fall into disarray.

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People start losing things.

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They're going without.

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Basically the cities become slime pits.

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Just saying, all right.

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And those that remain flee the cities.

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Think about that.

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That's one of the big problems of the inner cities, major metropolitan areas today.

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People just finally they get up with all the wokeness and all the liberal, you know, things going on and they just decide they're going to move out.

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Where do they usually move too, by the way?

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They move over into the conservative area, the law abiding citizens, because that's safer and they want their kids to grow up in good schools that, you know, teach morals and morality and things like that.

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And not into, you know, where they can't even define the difference between a boy and a girl.

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I'm just putting that out there.

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Yep, I agree.

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I.

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I heard somebody say amen and I agree.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Verse 11.

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Because they, the kings fell there and they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, all the vexuals and what their way.

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And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom and took all his goods and departed.

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Now why would they want Lot stuff?

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Because he had more than anybody else.

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That's why.

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He was one of the, the honchos over that area.

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So not only they take his stuff, they took him too.

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All right, so four kings and these soldiers took Lot and spoiled all the cities in the area, all right?

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And remember, the area, go back over here is called Mamre, which is the plane of fatness, right?

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So this is a very well taken care of here, a very profitable area with farming communities and all this stuff.

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We, we read all that.

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And so these kings came in.

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They just spoiled the whole area.

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They took all of the, the kings, they took, you know, their servants.

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That and Lot was one of the honchos of the city at this point in time.

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That's why they took him and all his stuff too.

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All right?

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They took lots, took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelled in Sodom, and his goods and departed.

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Verse 13.

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There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre, the Amorite brother of Eshkol and the brother of Anar.

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And these were confederate with Abram.

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Okay, so Abram, he's the only Hebrew in the area, right?

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So they probably said, you know, we need to go tell.

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You know, Lot probably sent word or something.

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Go tell Abram the Hebrew.

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You know, that.

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That what's happened here.

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And a Lot Abram's the only Hebrew in that area, right?

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Now.

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Remember, this is the land of Canaan.

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All right?

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Verse 14.

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When Abram heard that his brother, well, it's really his nephew is.

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He was talk, you know, like, you know, Brother Bob, Brother Joe, right?

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But here he's talking about family.

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His Lot was.

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His nephew was taken captive.

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He armed his trained servants.

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Understand what that meant?

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Abram didn't depend on armies.

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He depended on his own servants.

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He trained his own servants.

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What were they being trained in?

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Why would they need to be trained and.

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And you know how to fight and things like that.

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Because they had a lot of stuff.

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There's a lot of people who want the stuff other people have.

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So to protect it.

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He had his own security force, basically, is what we.

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We're reading here.

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He had his own security force.

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He personally trained how to defend the stuff.

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So here, you see, he armed his trained servants born in his own house.

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These were not captured slaves being made to do this.

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These were people that were born in his house and he was taking care of them.

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They were loyal to him.

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He was loyal to them.

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318 people and pursued unto Dan.

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So now you have 318 people gonna take on 4 kings and their armies.

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All right?

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He divided himself.

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Abram decided, divided himself against them.

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He and his servants by night and smote them and then pursued them.

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They.

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They were being beat so bad, they took off running.

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And he pursued them onto Hobah, which is on the Left Hand of Damascus.

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And he brought back all the goods.

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He brought back everything.

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He just let the kings go.

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He brought back his brother Lot or his nephew Lot, and all his goods and all the women also, and all the people.

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I mean, he's bringing the whole group back, everything.

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The kings took Abram with 318 people, defeated four armies and is bringing all the people and stuff back home, is what this reads.

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All right, verse 17.

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Actually, we're going to stop right there because I want to spend some time on this.

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All right.

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Yeah, I want to stop right there for today because it might take me two days to get.

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I don't know.

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I'll be led by the Lord on it, but I'm.

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I want to spend some time from verse 17 to verse 24.

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Amen.

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We might get through it in the very next episode, but then again, it may be the episode after that when we finish, depending on how the Lord leads.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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So we'll pick it up right there in Genesis 15, verse 17 tomorrow.

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Till then, this Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.