THE DAY THE HEAVENS RAINED FIRE

THE DAY THE HEAVENS RAINED FIRE

(Genesis 18)

 God told Abraham he heard a cry,

Against Sodom and Gomorrah’s sins.

The outcry was great because their sins were grievous,

The cities were evil twins.

 Then Abraham approached the Lord and said,

As though God would make a mistake,

“What if fifty righteous people live there?”

What about their sake?

 Far be it from you to do such a thing—

To the righteous caught in this plight,

Treating the righteous and the wicked alike.

Won't the Judge of the earth do right?"

 The Lord promised He would spare Sodom,

If fifty righteous people were there.

Abraham lowered the number;

Expecting God to be fair.

 God lowered the number to forty-five,

But Abraham continued to implore.

God said for forty He would spare the city,

Then that number was lowered more.

 God said He’d hold back if thirty were found,

So Abraham asked for ten less.

He said, “What if only twenty can be found?"

His hope had begun to digress.

 “For the sake of twenty, I won’t ruin it."

God patiently replied.

When asked what if only ten could be found,

God vowed to set his anger aside.

 The LORD left Abraham after they spoke,

Who went home to wallow in pity.

Two angels arrived in Sodom at dusk,

While Lot sat at the gate of the city.

Lot bowed to the ground when he saw the Lord's men,

After getting up to meet them.

The two men asked Abraham’s nephew,

If anyone belonged to him.

Get them out of here, Lot was told,

The city will soon be destroyed.

The outcry against the city was great;

So their home they should now avoid.

So Lot went and spoke to his sons-in-law,

Who his daughters were pledged to marry.

"Hurry and get out of this place,” Lot said,

“For this city God will bury!"

 But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Then before the break of day,

The men of God urged his family to hurry,

So they wouldn’t be swept away.

 When Lot paused, the men grabbed his hand,

And the hands of his wife and each daughter.

They led them safely out of the city,

So they wouldn’t be caught in the slaughter.

 As soon as they had brought them out,

One man said, "Run for your life!

Don't look back, and don't stop in the plain!

Escape with your daughters and wife.”

 But Lot said "No, my lords, please!”

He then told the Lord’s men why,

“I can't flee to the mountains,” he said.

“I’ll be overtaken and die.”

 He asked to run to a nearby town,

Then his life would surely be spared.

Lot’s request was granted;

And he left, though quite unprepared.

 By the time Lot reached Zoar,

The sun had risen over the land.

Then the LORD rained sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—

From heaven came His command.

 He overthrew the cities, the plain,

And Lot’s wife, though it was her fault.

For though she was warned, Lot’s wife looked back,

And became a pillar of salt.

Becky Wall

HIGH AND MIGHTY

HIGH AND MIGHTY

(Based on Gen. 11:1-9)

God’s people started to build,

T’ward heaven a very tall tower.

Thinking they’d make a name for themselves,

And flaunt their might and power.

The nation had one language,

Where the Tower of Babel was at.

The Lord confused their speech and then,

New languages happened after that.

Too much might and power,

Can be a destructive thing.

God in His infinite wisdom,

Knew the harm it would bring.

So don’t get high and mighty,

If you build your dreams in the sky;

A lofty attitude is hated,

By The Almighty on High.

Becky Wall

The Tower of Babel was located in what would later become the city of Babylon, which is now Iraq. Babel means "confusion" because of the various languages that took place there.

THE BEGINNING

THE BEGINNING

God made the heavens and earth,

But they were without shape.

His Spirit hovered over its waters,

And darkness covered the landscape.

He then said “Let there be light.”

And immediately there was brightness.

He saw that it was good,

And divided it from the darkness.

Jehovah called the light “day”

And “morning” the day’s beginning.

He called the darkness “night.”

The first “day” had occurred by evening.

God ordered the waters to part,

At His word, they would obey.

The waters above were called “sky,”

On this, the second day.

He gathered the waters below the sky,

On the third day and at His command.

The waters he called “seas,”

And the dry ground He called “land.”

“Let there be vegetation” He said,

“Plants and trees with seed-bearing fruit,

All according to their various kinds.”

On the third day food took root.

Then God said “Let there be lights,”

To mark days, years, and seasons.

The lights will separate night from day;

Genesis tells us the reasons.

God then hung the moon,

And the greater light He named “sun.”

The stars were scattered across the heavens,

On the fourth day His work was not done.

On the fifth day of earth’s creation,

God made the creatures in the sea.

He made the birds of the air,

At His word they came to be.

“Let there be living creatures,” He said,

Each after its own class.

Both wild and tame animals,

And creatures that move in the grass.

On the sixth day God made man.

He made him from the dust of the ground.

He breathed his Spirit into him,

But no helpmate was yet to be found.

So Adam was placed in a very deep sleep,

And one of his ribs was removed.

Eve was formed from the rib;

When he saw her, no doubt he approved.

“Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called wo-man.”

Adam called her gender by this,

“For she was taken from man.”

And so by the end of the sixth day,

Creation was complete.

On the seventh day God rested;

He’d accomplished quite a feat.

Genesis means “the beginning;”

Of earth and heaven’s birth.

Even then the end was written;

There’ll be a new heaven and earth.

Becky Wall