When we are convicted about the sin in our lives, there is no time for delay. We must flee from it immediately. In 2 Peter , we are taught about judgment regardless of family connection.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings. When we are the correct witnesses for Christ, we exemplify his goodness and lead others to seek a relationship with Him. Lot and his family knew of the sin and corruption within the confines of Sodom. Yet, they both continued to blend in among the worldly society.
The angels warned the family of the imminent and complete destruction. Believers have the same divine inspiration today by and through the presence of the Holy Spirit. The gift of discernment allows the Christian to spiritually interpret the intentions of people and situations. The only apparent righteous person in it—whose righteousness had been made ineffective through compromise—was Lot. So the two angels came to deliver Lot and his family from the terrible judgment about to fall on Sodom.
Early the next morning the angels sought to hasten Lot and his family out of the city, but they lingered. They were loathe to leave the luxury, pleasure, and sin of Sodom, so the angelic deliverers had to remove them forcibly from the city and compel them to escape for their life. The account of the tragedy is briefly related. The wife of Lot looked back upon her own city with regrets at having to part with its sinful pleasures. Lot wanted the members of his household to participate in the meritorious act of hospitality, as had Abraham, and he asked his wife to bring them salt.
She went to her women neighbors to borrow salt. They stormed his house and demanded that he hand them over to the townspeople Midrash Aggadah [ed. Buber], Gen. The two married daughters and their husbands remained in the doomed city, as did her two future sons-in-law Gen.
When Lot and his wife were saved from the destruction of the city, she took pity on her married daughters who had remained in Sodom and looked behind her. As soon as she saw the back of the Shekhinah Divine Presence , she was transformed into a pillar of salt Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer , ed.
Higger, chap. The pillar of salt was left by God as a memorial for all time Yalkut Shimoni on Esth. A late Statements that are not Scripturally dependent and that pertain to ethics, traditions and actions of the Rabbis; the non-legal non- halakhic material of the Talmud.
The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it. Lot warned his sons-in-law, but they mocked him and refused the warning. As the dawn was approaching, the angels again told Lot that judgment was immediate, and he needed to take his wife and daughters out of the city.
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away! Lot and his two daughters fled to the nearby mountains in the city of Zoar. The oldest daughter realized the agedness of her father and the absence of her mother. Because of his drunken condition, Lot did not realize what was happening as his daughters each slept with him in succession. Each daughter conceived a son in this way, who became fathers of the Moabites and the Ammonites Genesis His wife told Lot it was bad custom to offer the salt from their household, so she went house to house in the neighborhood informing the men of the houses of the two travelers while she looked for salt.
This idea is not expressed in the Bible, only in Jewish teachings. Her action suggests that she identified with the people of Sodom.
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