THE WORD OF ELOHIM
GENESIS
Chapter 19
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The character of Lot is similar to Abraham. He is a humble and generous man towards the stranger.
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For a long time, every time I read this paragraph, I was very troubled. It is not that I thought that Lot should release the strangers into the mob to be molested; but that he was willing to offer his daughters as a substitute disturbed me.
First: Because they were his daughters.
Second: Because they were virgins and in Lot's day, if a woman was not a virgin when she married, she was considered extremely lowly. Some women were killed when it was discovered that they were impure. It was unthinkable to give up one's virginity and Lot was willing to give theirs away.
Third: I could only imagine the horror his daughters felt when they heard their father say such a thing. How awful this must have made them feel.
After years of struggling with this passage and feeling this way: The Lord touched my heart and helped me to see something that I had never considered: The Lord showed me how of the two evils, the option that Lot chose was indeed the lesser of them. When a man is taken against his will and violently raped, this is an unnatural act. A man was not made to be laid with, like a woman. The physical body of a man was not created for this purpose; so when a man is molested, this hurts him more than a woman. A woman may carry the sorrow, pain, & humiliation for a long time, and perhaps even for her entire life; however, a man will carry the same feelings even more so.
Paragraph 4: When Lot left Abraham his possessions were many, but now he has left Sodom with only his wife and two daughters. (Genesis 13:5-
What occurred after Lot left Abraham?
It has been said that the people in the area of Sedom (Sodom) were not only sexually immoral, but also treated strangers very badly. They were liars and thieves, who took every possible advantage of everyone that they could. Justice, mercy, and grace did not exist in this place. No doubt: Job found himself in the same circumstances as those who had come before him and lost everything he had.
Paragraph 5: "Lot's wife looked back and she thereupon turned into a pillar of salt."
Why did Lot's wife look back?
Because some of her daughters remained in the city of Sedom (Sodom) and she looked back in sorrow, filled with grief, because she was witnessing their destruction. If she had listened to the angels; she would not have seen this, felt this, and she would have lived. I am sure that once Lot and his two remaining daughters were able to stop fleeing they too had mourned for their losses.
Please Note:
Paragraph 3: ' "So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-
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Paragraph 4: ' " As dawn broke, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two remaining daughters, lest you be swept away, because of the iniquity of the city." '
How many of us would have made the same mistake?
Paragraph 9: Was the wine purchased in Tsoar or had enough time lapsed that Lot had planted his own vineyard?
Unless one were with Lot and his daughters it would be hard to comprehend why the daughters felt that there was not a man upon the earth to cohabit with.
Had the people of Tsoar all fled after the disaster? Was Lot afraid to allow his daughters to marry the men of Tsoar, because there character was very much like the ones in Sedom (Sodom) and Amorah (Gomorrah)? Did it appear that all of the earth from there vantage point was utterly and completely destroyed?
Paragraph 10: Moav (Moab) / from my father
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