This also is one of the days of Lot
Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Abram makes a covenant with God in which he will be fully given to the Lord in exchange for a son that will be his heir. We have two children, those born of the flesh and those born of the promise. Ishmael and Isaac.
4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
This promise precedes both and it sets the stage for chapter 18. Right now Israel in the Middle East is the child after the flesh. They were born May 14, 1948.
Genesis 18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
This gives us a window into when the disaster to Lot will take place. It takes place 9 months after Sarah becomes pregnant. On this day the three angels promise two things. First, they promise that nine months later Sarah will have a son, and they then say they are going to go down to see what is going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. We know that when the Manchild is caught up the fire falls.
10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
The time of life is the Spring. Now to be fair we could compare May 14, 1948 as the fulfillment of this. It was the time of life, Israel returning to the land was like a woman 100 years old giving birth, and you could say their name was Isaac. This would mean that God went down during WW2 and saw how horrible the situation was with Germany and the holocaust. But it would be ridiculous to compare the Jews in Israel to Isaac. They are much closer to Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
When we read this the question is not about the residents of Sodom being righteous. Some estimates are that 40,000 died. That is not the question. The question is about righteous Lot and any he has brought to the Lord. It is like evaluating an evangelical outreach program. For example, let's apply this to the church.
Now one way to read Revelation 2 and 3 is to see that the church age is divided into seven periods of time.
23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
With the church in Ephesus we learn there were some righteous and some who had left their first love.
26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
The Lord doesn't bring the destruction during the apostolic church. Surely we were able to see some very wicked people during this time, but the earth was preserved because of the righteous.
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
The Lord doesn't bring destruction during the time of Smyrna when they were persecuting the church with grievous tribulation. Yes, there were even more evil people, but it was the righteousnesses of the saints that stayed the Lord's hand.
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
During the age with Pergamos when the church married the world, there were even more wicked and even fewer righteous. But God stayed His hand because there were still those like the faithful Antipas, the faithful martyr.
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
Then with the Catholic Church and Jezebel causing the servants of the Lords to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication the number of wicked was greater and the number of righteous even less, but there were still some that did not know the deep things of Satan and because of them God stayed His hand.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
During the church age with Sardis they have learned how to market the church, give it a nice name full of life and try and hide the fact that it is dead. Pump it up with the music and don't let those that stand against you become martyrs like Antipas. Instead you excommunicate them, slander their names. But even so, there were still a few names in Sardis who had not defiled their robes. So, God stays His hand of judgement for their sakes.
32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Then we come to Philadelphia. This church is composed of those who have been driven out of all the other churches because they kept the word of God and refused to deny His name. At this point the synagogue of Satan has grown very large and this church is considered very weak. So even for the ten's sake God will not bring His hand of judgement.
But when we get to Laodicea, Jesus is outside of the church. They are proud, arrogant, thinking they are rich and clueless that they are blind, naked, poor and wretched. He is outside knocking and if any, like Lot will let Him in He will dine with them and save them from the judgement that is to fall.
So I am looking at this story with Abraham and based on the context the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is very great when Israel is birthed in the Mid East. That is May 14, 1948. We can compare the sinners to the "Fig tree generation". They will pass away by the time they are are 84 in 2032. So we have a timeline for the years. But this story gives us a timeline for the day.
9 months from May 14 is February 14. If the rapture takes place on this date it will be nine months after the birth of Israel took place. It will also be 42 months before the 9th of Av when the two witnesses are killed. We don't know the day and the hour of the rapture, but what we do know is that it is a pagan holiday (based on the story of Samson) and beginning on Feb 13th we have a three day pagan holiday. We also know that 42 months later the two witnesses are killed and as a result those who are the Lord's must flee Jerusalem. No one ever said we can't know that date, and on the Jewish calendar you would expect that to be the 9th of Av, the day they were cursed for rejecting Joshua and Caleb, the two faithful witnesses. We also know it is 9 months after God goes down to see if the cry from Sodom and Gomorrah is true. By the way, May of 2024 is when
So there is a connection with Laodicea and Sodom and Gomorrah. Interestingly it seems 50 righteous did raise a cry to the Lord to come and see what was going on at this time.
Just to be clear I am simply saying there should be a key connection to the day of the rapture. 9 months before we should see a cry going up concerning Sodom and Gomorrah, not in the world, but in the church of Laodicea. 42 months after we should see a very specific date on the Jewish calendar a shadow of Israel rejecting two faithful witnesses.