I was reading Genesis today and I noticed something I don’t think I’ve noticed before. Prior to the famous destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins (Genesis 19) God actually rescued those same people, using Abraham to save them and their wives and children in the battle of the kings (Genesis 14). What are we to make of this? Perhaps it shows a pattern of God revealing himself to people and being gracious even up until it finally is time to judge. Do not take his kindness or grace as permission to sin or some kind of promise that judgment won’t come. Indeed, about 150 years after Jonah’s preaching led Ninevah to repentance we had Nahum show up and tell that same city that destruction was now coming. After the golden days of Solomon the kingdom split under his son’s foolishness. Get your life right with God.