211.13: Isaiah 15-16: Moab's Pagan god couldn't help them against God's Judgment

<p>Now, Isaiah turns to the nation of Moab. Moab &nbsp;has an interesting history which takes us back to the judgment and &nbsp;destruction of Sodom. Lot, Abraham’s nephew, escaped the fire and &nbsp;brimstone with his wife and 2 daughters. After being told not to look &nbsp;back at the first sin city, his wife couldn’t resist and became a pillar &nbsp;of salt when she turned to look. Lot and his daughters fled and ended &nbsp;up in a cave. The daughters get the bright idea, since there were no men &nbsp;left in area to marry, that they would get their father drunk then &nbsp;sleep with him. They both got pregnant. The eldest daughter’s son was &nbsp;named Moab and her sister named her son Ammon. <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2021/05/01/god-destroyed-the-first-sin-city-will-what-happened-then-recur-in-the-last-days/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Check out that bible study on Genesis 19 here.</a></p> <p>So, technically, the Moabites and the Ammonites are cousins of the &nbsp;Israelites. Being Lot’s descendants, the knew about the One True God. &nbsp;Yet, they worshiped the useless, pagan god <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosh" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Chemosh</a>.</p> <p>Pastor Sandy Adams summarized the Moabites nicely…</p> <blockquote><a href="https://www.sandyadams.org/sermon/isaiah-15-19/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Sandy Adams</a>Moab typifies the person who knows &nbsp;the truth about God – has access to this truth – is surrounded by this &nbsp;truth – yet never embraces this truth. In a spiritual sense it seems &nbsp;today’s churches are full of Moabites.</blockquote> <p>I have a correction from yesterday. <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2021/11/12/isaiah-13-14-when-will-the-epic-fall-of-babylon-and-the-evil-one-happen/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">I &nbsp;got the date of Isaiah book wrong. It was written in 725 BC not 699 BC. &nbsp;Thus, the Babylonian prophecy didn’t happen until 186 years later.</a> They had plenty of time to