भाष्य सध्या फक्त इंग्रजीत उपलब्ध आहे. मराठी भाषांतर प्रगतीपथावर आहे.
Genesis 19 — Fire and Brimstone from Heaven
The two angels arrive at Sodom and are received by Lot. The men of the city demand to abuse them; Lot offers his daughters in their place. The angels strike the mob blind. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by fire and brimstone. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt. The chapter ends with Lot's daughters' incest.
“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.”
— Genesis 19:24
- v.1-3 The angels received by Lot at the city gate
- v.4-11 The men of Sodom demand the visitors; struck blind
- v.12-22 Lot urged to flee; he lingers; mercy carries him out
- v.23-26 The destruction; Lot's wife becomes a pillar of salt
- v.27-29 Abraham sees the smoke from afar
- v.30-38 Lot's incest with his daughters — origin of Moab and Ammon
After all his accommodation, the men of Sodom rejected Lot the moment he opposed them. The compromiser who tries to slow the descent of the culture he tolerated will find himself attacked by it.
This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge. They reject any moral voice from outside. This is the cultural posture toward the believer who has stayed silent and then finally tries to speak.
Lot lingered — even with the city about to be destroyed, even with angels urging him to flee, he hesitated. Sin's grip on the heart persists past the point where the mind sees its end.
The Lord being merciful unto him — the angels physically dragged him out. He was saved not by his own urgency but by divine mercy seizing him by the hand. Some are saved with great difficulty (Jude 23) — pulled from the fire when they would have lingered in it.
Four commands in one breath. Escape, look not, stay not, escape to the mountain. Salvation from coming judgment requires whole-soul flight.
Look not behind thee. No lingering glances at what you are leaving. This is more than physical advice — it is spiritual. Luke 9:62 — "no man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
The most haunting verse in the chapter. She got out of the city — but the city had not gotten out of her. Her heart remained where her body had just fled.
Jesus quotes her in Luke 17:32 — "Remember Lot's wife." Two words of warning. The Lord did not have to elaborate. The image was sufficient.
She is a warning for every believer who escapes by mercy but cannot let go of what they have been delivered from. Salvation is not just rescue from a place; it is the heart-turning that no longer wants to return.
Lot was saved because God remembered Abraham. The intercession of chapter 18 took effect here. Lot did not deserve to be rescued; he was rescued because of someone else's prayers.
A sobering and merciful truth — the prayers of the righteous on behalf of the wandering can preserve them. Continue praying for the believers who have drifted. God remembers.
Two warnings live in this chapter still. First — what you pitch your tent toward, you will eventually dwell in. Second — what you cannot leave behind without looking back, you have not really left. Examine your own gradual movements. The drift takes years; the consequences take eternity.
Jesus invoked Lot's wife in the same breath as His own return (Luke 17:30-32). The day of the Son of Man will be like the days of Lot. The same urgency, the same partial believers half-clinging to the doomed city, the same one decisive moment when looking back will fix the soul. Christ's warning still rings: Remember Lot's wife.
Lot has progressed from pitching his tent toward Sodom (13:12) to dwelling in Sodom (14:12) to now sitting in the gate of Sodom — a position of civic prominence. The trajectory of his compromise is complete. He has become part of the system he should have feared.
Yet 2 Peter 2:7-8 calls him "just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." He was a righteous man living in unrighteous compromise. The two are not mutually exclusive, but they will eventually collide.