Prophecy

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Lessons From Lot
Shared by Patricia Backora, author of the book
Tough Love in Christ’s Millennium
Which you can order online from: http://www.publishamerica.com
Genesis 18:16-32; and chapter 19; Proverbs 4:23; Luke 9:62; 17:32

Abraham was a righteous man who walked with Me and kept his distance from wicked Sodom. His nephew Lot typified the carnal believer who doesn’t want to seem fanatical or out of sync with those around him.

Abraham was unselfish and considerate. When he realized that he had to part ways with his nephew so their their cattle and sheep would have sufficient pasturage, he offered Lot first choice of the land. Earthly-minded Lot immediately chose the fertile plain around Sodom. Abraham would remain in the Land of Canaan with his flocks and herds.

The devil isn’t stupid enough to think you’ll set foot in Sodom all at once. At first, Lot simply pitched his tent at a safe distance outside the city. Still, he gazed upon the place with longing eyes. His heart was in Sodom before the rest of him moved there! If the devil has your heart, he’s already won.

Before long, Lot was living a cozy life in Sodom. Being a righteous man, he was very troubled about the depraved moral condition of the city. But he felt unable to make much of a difference. Had he not shuddered at the thought of returning to the rigors of the pastoral life, he might not have remained under the influence of that city. The devil can use the comforts of the flesh to keep people in bondage to him.

Eventually, Sodom and her four sister cities came under attack. Lot and his family were taken captive, along with other residents of those wicked cities. When a saint compromises with the devil, he is weakened by sin and taken captive by his lust, just like an unbeliever!

But his Uncle Abraham had not compromised with the world, but remained separate from it. He was strong in the Lord. He took some well-trained men and went to rescue Lot. The enemy was vanquished. Lot was set free, with all he owned restored to him. Believers who are strong should wage spiritual warfare to liberate saints taken captive by satan.

The King of Sodom was so grateful he offered to reward Abraham for his valor. But Abraham told him he wouldn’t accept anything from him, not so much as a shoestring. Abraham would not be contaminated by anything from Sodom, and he didn’t want the wicked to be able to boast that they had been the source of his wealth. While Lot was eager to enjoy all the benefits of life in wicked Sodom, Abraham held all its treasures in disdain.

Instead of taking that experience as a warning to consider his ways, Lot returned to the city. Some believers are content to remain weak witnesses to what the devil does in society, instead of becoming strong witnesses testifying of My saving power.

Wicked Sodom did not give thanks to the God of Abraham for its deliverance. Instead, it grew still more evil and debased. I got so disgusted with the perversion and cruelty of the Cities of the Plain that I decided I had to utterly destroy them. Sin can so consume a person or society that it is past all hope of redemption!

When Abraham learned of My intention, he pleaded with Me to spare Sodom for the sake of Lot and any other righteous people who might be living there. At length, he pleaded with me, wondering how many godly residents Sodom would need for Me to change My mind. At every turn the number proposed by Abraham and agreed to by Me decreased. Fearfully and finally, he asked Me if I would change My mind if there were only ten righteous people in the city. I said I would spare the city if even ten righteous could be found there.

Abraham left the negotiations somewhat confident that Sodom would be spared. Surely ten upright individuals could be found, even in that sordid city. Even random probability would dictate that, reasoned Abraham.

Sodom was so sold out to wickedness that there were no absolutely no restraints on degenerate behavior. Two angels were sent to Sodom to warn Lot to leave immediately, with his family. Soon all the perverts in town were gathered outside Lot’s house, demanding that Lot turn the angels over to them for their sinful gratification.

Lot felt helpless in the face of such an onslaught. He offered to throw out his own daughters, in order to spare the visitors, but the crowd would not listen. They said Lot had no right to tell them how to live, and they would assault him, too. Any believer who traffics with the world and partakes of its evil culture soon loses his courage and fears the devil. Satan will laugh at you if you sojourn in his spiritual territory!

The angels struck the crowd of perverts with blindness, so they were unable to harm Lot. The angels told Lot to go warn anyone who might be related to him. He went to warn his sons-in-law, but they only made fun of him. If you refuse to take a stand for righteousness now, your witness to unbelievers will be in vain when the day of judgment looms!

Lot had narrowly escaped homosexual attack, but he was still was reluctant to leave the city with the angels. By then, he’d grown so used to life in Sodom, he actually feared being set free from the devil’s domain. If you remain long enough in satan’s domain, you will develop soul ties to sin which are hard to sever, and the devil will imprison you with fear! Satan deceives his captives into thinking they can easily make a break with sin any time they choose.

The angels had to take Lot, his wife, and two daughters by the hand and lead them out forcibly, they were so loath to leave. Furthermore, the angels commanded Lot and his family not to look back as they fled to the city of Zoar. But Lot’s wife looked back with longing at the home she’d held so dear. She perished in the overthrow of the Cities of the Plain, and was turned into a pillar of salt. Many who have escaped the pollutions of this world through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ are even now looking back to their own destruction!

Lot and his daughters had no sooner found shelter in a cave than the two girls cooked up a diabolical scheme to ensure they wouldn’t end up childless. Both of them, on succeeding nights, got their father drunk so they could rouse lust in him. Lot fathered own grandsons, Moab and Ben-ammi, progenitors of the Moabites and Ammonites, peoples who would later go to war against Israel and be a perpetual thorn in their side. Lot and his daughters had gotten out of Sodom, only to take some of Sodom with them. Children pay dearly when their parents sojourn in Sodom!

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