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Lots Guests Are Assaulted
The scene in this chapter opens with the visit of two angles to Lot’s home in Sodom(v. 1). It reveals God’s judgement on a morally bankrupt civilization but at the same time provides a severe warning against others becoming like them. Perhaps more than any other catas …

Lot Leaves Sodom And The Cities Are Destroyed
The scene intensifies as the angles instruct Lot to go out into the night and warn his children that Sodom is going to be destroyed (vv. 12-13). Whatever may have been Lot’s faults, lack of courage was not one of them. One moment he almost loses his life on his front …

Lot’s Daughters Have Sons By Their Father
A few thoughts are inserted concerning Uncle Abraham. “And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went …