Day 9: Sodom and Gomorrah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

Day 9: Sodom and Gomorrah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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Fr. Mike breaks down the story of Sodom and Gomorrah today as we read Genesis 18-19, Job 7-8, and Proverbs 2:1-5.

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41 Comments

  1. Ck East on June 6, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    Thank you, Father Mike. You are so wise and Holy. God Bless.

  2. Barbara T on June 6, 2022 at 9:51 pm

    Thank you, Father Mike! God bless you!

  3. Donna Pollock on June 6, 2022 at 9:53 pm

    Thank you Father Mike, I so love these reading of The Holy Bible. God Bless you…

  4. charity r on June 6, 2022 at 9:55 pm

    Thank you for this daily bible podcast. I am understanding more of the bible. God bless you.

  5. pebbles punzalan on June 6, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    Big thankx Fr. Mike! God bless you dearly.

  6. Dorothy Swol on June 6, 2022 at 10:00 pm

    Fr. Mike; thank you for reading the bible to us and explaining it to us. I have tried to read the bible many a time but just can’t understand it. So thank you so, so much. I have a question for you, how can I get this sent to my email on my laptop, I don’t have anything that I can text on?
    GOD BLESS YOU. Please know that for anyone that is in a religious vocation I am praying for them every day, and I am also praying for an increase in vocations.

  7. Micah Matthews on June 6, 2022 at 10:01 pm

    Wait what happened to the story of lots wife turning into salt? Was it removed? That would shake my trust.

  8. Jillian Rae on June 6, 2022 at 10:01 pm

    Today was so relatable.. I went thru lots of friends like Job’s and there are still times I get so disappointed in people’s responses especially when I’m at my lowest and am looking for an answer to something.. I also had Fr. Mike’s expectations and after I fully read Job, it just felt underwhelming haha.

    Lets keep praying for each other, that God may grant us wisdom and that we may continue to grow in faith. It’s tough everyday, you’re not alone 🙂

  9. Michele McCracken on June 6, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    I always thought about and was confused about if we all came from Adam and Eve where did the other people come from? The city Caine ended up going to. If we all the came from Noah and his children are we all products of incest?

  10. Beverly Dorko on June 6, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    I find Genesis Chapters 18 and 19 very disturbing, especially the part where the daughters drug their father and sleep with him. Really? In my world, incest is a sin and this would be considered rape. Every time I attempt to read the bible, I cannot get past this and have yet to have someone explain to me its relevance. I cannot understand where God enacts justice on Sodom. I understand it’s a troubled city. We have a lot of troubled cities in today’s world, does that me we should take it upon ourselves to destroy them? Is that justice? I think not — it is vengeance. Lot offers his daughters to those men? Why is this in the Bible? Who does that? Your explanation does not help me understand. I truly believe we should rewrite the bible. I don’t believe a lot of the stuff found in the Old Testament is God’s word. If it is, then we have an evil God. Thank God that Jesus came to earth and we have the New Testament …

  11. Theresa Davis on June 6, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    Thank you again for doing this series. Praying for everyone.

  12. Nancy Alger on June 6, 2022 at 10:05 pm

    Father Mike, you read the Bible so well to us, and your explanations are so informative! Thank you.

  13. WKGames on June 6, 2022 at 10:06 pm

    Yikes, I remember some pretty messed up stuff happening in Genesis but I forgot how bad it gets. Like you said though, I think there is still something to learn in these chapters.

    In Genesis 18, God reminds Sarah to have faith that she will have a son even at her old age. Then Abraham challenges God’s intentions to destroy the city of Sodom arguing that the righteous should be spared from God’s wrath. The fact that Abraham is able to bring the total down from 50 to 10 suggests that God is willing to spare the righteous (may provide a basis for Eliphaz’s argument in Job). Then in Genesis 19, the angels visit Abraham’s nephew Lot to enact justice on the city of Sodom. The men of Sodom show their wickedness by threatening to break in and attack the angels who visited. As you mentioned, the resulting destruction of Sodom is God’s justice rather than vengeance because the men had lived in sin. God fulfills his promise to Abraham by sparing Lot and Lot’s daughters. However, then Lot’s daughters commit incest in Zoar. I like how you pointed out this incest was also ultimately punished as their children became the Moabites and the Ammonites which were cursed as enemies of the Israelites. These chapters serve as a reminder not to live in sin.

    In Job Chapters 7-8, Job continues to express his understandable confusion with the brokenness of the world. He asks why people suffer and wonders if life is pointless to the point that he chooses "strangling and death rather than his bones." Once again, Job is unsure what he has done wrong. Bildad seems to repeat Eliphaz’s argument, explaining that God defends the righteous with justice. He suggests Job is correct that their days are a shadow (breath) and that they should respect the wisdom of the many ancestors that preceded them. Bildad reminds Job that those who are truly blameless will be blessed by God. These chapters left me wanting more, I would like to know why good people suffer. It is a bit disappointing to hear the ending of this book is not conclusive, but I hope seeing Job’s journey will give me some insight to help when I am suffering.

    Proverbs 2:1-5 suggest that if we seek wisdom for long enough, we will understand the fear of the Lord. I pray that by studying the Bible I will become God-fearing.

    Side note: Not sure if this was intentional, I found it ironic you said we should not seek the answer to Job’s problems like "where is that nugget" (20:02) when Proverbs 2 verse 4 instructs us to search for wisdom like "silver" and "hidden treasures." (14:50) I understand that they’re different contexts (some wisdom is beyond our understanding) but found the choice of wording to be a bit amusing.

    Day 9 – 1/9/2022

  14. Penny Pistilli on June 6, 2022 at 10:06 pm

    Iam really disturbed about how Lot offered his Virginia daughters to that crazy mob.why didn’t he fight to the death for them .Even if he were not to succeed he would have been practicing Christian virtue and not utilitarianism which for Catholics not right. And why than the emphasis on the Daughters sins. Is there a bias here. This in my opinion is also barbaric.i speak as a sinner who is often confused.

  15. Michael Presberg on June 6, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    15:24 – Commentary

  16. Kimberly Vesneske on June 6, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    The concept that every thing you go through leads to the person who you are today, is the only way I can reconcile the story of Job and my belief that God wouldn’t let bad things happen to us without a reason….

  17. - Gina on June 6, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    Day 9*

  18. Bill Groel on June 6, 2022 at 10:14 pm

    Thank you for sharing God Bless

  19. John Pas on June 6, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    Thanks Father Mike

  20. ValnarianKnight on June 6, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    Interesting fact: The area where Sodom once stood has geographical evidence of a meteorite strike in that area.

  21. paul paull on June 6, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    Gratias tibi Pater{InPersonaChristi} Schmitz; +++
    + + +
    1+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    2+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    3+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    4+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    5+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    6+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    7+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    8+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    9+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
    0+)Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus Tecum Benedicta Tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris Tui Iesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae Amen
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  22. DacatMum on June 6, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    I am loving this! Fr. Mike you are a blessing to us all! Thank you!

  23. John P Glackin on June 6, 2022 at 10:20 pm

    And this situation as too why Our Lord destroy Sodom and Gomorrah was because of Sodomy.

  24. Princesa Úrsula de Dios on June 6, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    @Ascension and Fr. Mike, Thank you for this gift of faith! Is there any way you could take on the project of doing The Catechism in a Year!? That would be SO awesome!!! Thank you for your consideration of it. God bless you!!!

  25. imbonnie on June 6, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    There must still be 10 righteous people left in San Francisco.

  26. Andrea Walker on June 6, 2022 at 10:25 pm

    Thank you Fr. Mike! Thank you Ascension press! This is a great blessing for a person who has never been able to read the Bible through. My husband has read it through many times. And thanks to Jeff Caven for his Great Adventure series.

  27. Ursula Bielski's World of the Supernatural on June 6, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    Back for round 2. Xoxo

  28. rita عمانؤيل on June 6, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    thank you father

  29. L B on June 6, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    Pattern: If God doesn’t move His plan in man’s timeline, they try to do it and create greater problems. We can follow this same pattern, or learn to wait upon the Lord. In these troubling times, I understand the desire to help God along. God heard the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah. He still hears. He still metes out justice. Let’s cry out daily, brothers and sisters

  30. Andrea F on June 6, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    Goodness. Definitely a tricky study day and feel like left hanging feeling like I need more explaining on these readings

  31. Xtraordinair Artist on June 6, 2022 at 10:29 pm

    Abraham , like Moses, stands in the gap negotiating with God not to destroy his work.
    Job, like the residents from Jerusalem flee to the mountains and hills before the Roman army collapses the city in 70ad. In both accounts God goes before them.

  32. Jean Lanz on June 6, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    IMO, Genesis 18 is one of the very best chapters in the Old Testament… Perhaps the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit came to visit Abraham, our father in faith. Sarah laughs about the idea of having a baby at her age, denies laughing, and is set straight by God. Abraham bargains so respectfully and humbly with God for mercy on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah… What a gem he is. And thinking about it, were there really ANY righteous people in Sodom? Lot offers his daughters to be raped, his wife doesn’t listen to the warning of the visitors, his daughters get their father drunk and have incest with him. Maybe God saved Lot and his daughters because they were Abraham’s relatives whom he loved.

  33. alejandro m on June 6, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Let’s journey with Job !

  34. Ron Weber on June 6, 2022 at 10:37 pm

    I was quite disheartened when I went home last time and they were praying and anointing each other; “by the Blood and in the Name of Mary”.
    Old Testament days they would have been stoned, if they were Jews.

  35. Rose A on June 6, 2022 at 10:38 pm

    *Soddum & Gomorrah – learn the truth from the scripture*

    https://youtu.be/AXcnJdv1-fM

  36. Barbara Hays on June 6, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    Fr. Mike – YOU ARE THE BEST! Thank you for what you do!
    It’s my second time with BIAY and watching the text on YouTube is so helpful and more meaningful.

  37. April Brownson on June 6, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    God bless Father And the whole crew who put this together. What a blessing! I’ve longed to read the bible and have tried and failed so many times but my kids have been loving listening to these videos with me. It’s my New Years resolution to listen to this whole series. Even if it isn’t in one calendar year. Thank you and God bless you all!

  38. Sandy J on June 6, 2022 at 10:40 pm

    Day 9, year 2. Much love and God Bless.

  39. Elizabeth Hunter on June 6, 2022 at 10:41 pm

    Yikes !!

  40. AK on June 6, 2022 at 10:45 pm

    Dia duit and peace. Seems relaying in portions that are supposed to lead to further exploration as able. Problem of evil that Job doesn’t answer? Did show how to suffer evil as one righteous. Kept faith and a clear conscience. How delivered from evil… by the merits of Jesus cross that can have patient charity and participate in Jesus’ redemptive suffering for love of God and neighbor. Practicing the faith delivers from evil as well. Fallen angels roam til end of time so need sacrament to keep casting them out, rooting out vices like gardening. Always weeding. Renewing the armor, pulling out arrows.

  41. Barbara Price on June 6, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    Why did Lots wife turn to a illar salt. Did she do something evil besides look back

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