#ignore this i barely know what im saying. but aziraphale. your abraham is showing (@thesherrinfordfacility)
#<- wait where does Abraham come into this#Abraham is the father of Isaac#I donāt think that has anything to do with Sodom and Gomorrah but Iām no exert (@indigovigilance)
Abraham's the one who convinces God to give Sodom and Gomorrah a chance. The angels were on their way to destroy the cities when Abraham insisted they take a break to rest and to be given lunch.
After the angels ate, God went, "Well, I'm planning to make Abraham rule a nation, so I might as well let him in on what I'm up to." God explains that Sodom and Gomorrah are awful and Abraham goes "Wow. I'm not questioning your decisions or anything, but when you say 'destroy the city,' you obviously wouldn't do that if there were 50 righteous people in there, right? As a most wonderful and gracious God, surely you wouldn't do that." And God goes, "...right, yeah, obviously I'd spare the city in that case." And then Abraham responds, "I know I'm just dust at your feet, but if the count came up just five short, you wouldn't destroy the city just for the lack of five people, right?" and God goes, "Yes, of course, I'm not so petty as to spare a city for the sake of 50 righteous people but not for 45 righteous people; that'd be crazy." And eventually Abraham negotiates God down to 10 before declaring victory and going home.
Unfortunately for Sodom, Lot's the only righteous man the angels encounter before going "fuck this shit, I'm out", and even if you count his wife and daughters, that's nowhere close to ten. That one family is given the opportunity to escape, and Sodom and Gomorrah burn.
So what's Abraham's role in this?
Abraham, like Lot, shelters and feeds the angels (which brings in a whole bunch of societal rules about hospitality).
Aziraphale, of course, shelters and feeds the angel who shows up at his own door.
Abraham is the one who somehow gets away with questioning God's plan. Whether you want to attribute it to Abraham being reckless or Abraham selflessly spending the political capital he apparently, bafflingly has, he's bold enough to use flattery to push God into being willing to spare an entire city. Obviously you can't just tell God "look, boss, this is a really, really terrible idea," but if you're very careful about it, you can sometimes get God to agree to a plan that was clearly not what God had originally been planning to do.
Aziraphale, of course, has somehow gotten away with lying to God's face. He has also, of course, been willing to step into the line of fire and say, "Well, we all know the Great Plan, but there's also the Ineffable Plan..." ā providing both the emotional appeal of "wow, this would be absolutely horrid" and the graceful exit of "but of course that was never the actual plan anyway." And, whether you interpret it as recklessness or self-sacrifice, Aziraphale has now headed up to Heaven to try to disrupt Heaven's stated plans again.
We don't know exactly how Aziraphale plans to do that, but we know he was there at Sodom and presumably got to see Abraham diplomatically redirect God, and we know Aziraphale himself diplomatically redirected Gabriel and Beelzebub at the airfield at the end of Season 1, so it would be entirely reasonable to suspect he's going to try for that again. Much like with Abraham negotiating on behalf of Sodom, giving the Earth a chance may be the best Aziraphale's able to do, but that's worth enough he has to try.
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