Genesis 19 Commentary
The author switches. The men are now identified as angels! The two men. Yes, they are men enough for the wicked men of Sodom to force LGBT rights on them! Verse 5.
As far as Lot is concerned, the men remained his lords. Verses 2 and 18. Lot couldn’t tell that the LORD had visited him. We all cannot tell but like Abraham, the progression should be from lord to Lord, and eventually to LORD. Then you know your heart is in the right place!
Never mind Lot and his poor spirituality, it is Abraham that the LORD remembers and Lot is saved. Verse 29.
For a brief moment, Lot is the evangelist who pleads with his sons-in-law. A poor evangelist, we must add. And why not? His own devotion to the God of Abraham wasn’t strong enough to enlist the admiration of his own relatives!
Life is a classroom. The placement of your house means everything. The places your child patronizes become the child’s lecture room. So Lot’s daughters learned “sodomy” from the city of Sodom where they resided. Having sex with their father was nothing to them! They had been good students!
We can reflect on the rules for the saint on his or her interaction with the world and see the reasons from this chapter.
You cannot fix a wrong with another wrong. But that’s Lot’s solution! Replacing “sodomy” with rape isn’t godliness. Replacing adultery with “masturbation” or ungodly movies is wickedness.
A growing saint adjusts his or her godliness knob so that hitherto innocent-looking things become sinful. On the other hand, the backslidden man or woman adjusts their knob downward. A sinful activity is replaced with another sinful but hideous activity. Hitherto sinful activities become innocent and they “freely” indulge.
The closer you get to the LORD God, the more sinful you become. You see your filthiness more clearly. You repent more frequently and tick yourself off heaven’s list with the same frequency – save for the knowledge that the LORD God is gracious! But grave sinners are most confident of entering Heaven!
“Don’t look back”. It should be a simple instruction! Not for Lot’s wife! We are saved by grace (by Abraham’s unrelenting intersession), but we mustn’t look back after salvation!
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