The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.” (Genesis 19:12, 13)
There is something about Lot that can make you somewhat sympathetic.
After all, here was a guy who was very hospitable. He evidently learnt well from his Uncle how to look after strangers. To the point that he goes out of his way to the point of potentially sacrificing the purity and integrity his own daughters for the wellbeing of his visitors.
Yet his decision to go to the land that looked good, but was rotten within is now coming back to affect him in the worst possible way without him being killed.
Notice how first of all his sons-in-law do not take him seriously. That’s a big deal – particularly pertinent later on, but in essence it means his daughters have no spouses. That’s a loss.
Next his wife, despite being expressly told not to look back, is so attached to the place which she called home that she turns into a pillar of salt for turning back.
Just to wrap things up for Lot, he unconsciously impregnates his two daughters who conspire.to resolve the issue of not having anyone to give them children.
I thought Job had it bad, but Lot’s lot wasn’t that much better. Yet it highlights again just how living embedded in a corrupt society can have a corrupting influence on those nearest and dearest to you.
It’s a tragic tale, though in it again is a theme that would be repeated throughout scripture of God taking someone out of a deadly situation. He is the God who rescues people even from their own mistakes. Which is to say it could have been a lot worse.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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