What was Lot's Wife's Name?
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Pillary?
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We've got many like her in our nation. :reals: They love the world too much. :Shimei:
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt [Gen. 19:26].
"I think this verse has been greatly misunderstood. Why in the world did Mrs. Lot turn and look back? I think that the reason is twofold. First of all, she turned and looked back because she did not want to leave Sodom. She loved Sodom. She loved Lot, too, but it was a lot of Sodom that she loved. And she didn’t want to leave it. She was probably a member of the country club, the sewing club, and the Shakespeare club. In fact, there wasn’t a club in town that she was not a member of. She just loved these little get–togethers in the afternoon. I’m not sure but what they met and studied religion in a nice little religious club also. She was right in the thick of it all, my friend, and she didn’t want to leave. Her heart was in Sodom. Her body walked out, but she surely left her heart there.
This is a tremendous lesson for us today. I hear a great many Christians talking about how they want to see the Lord come, but they are not living as if they mean it. On Sunday morning, it is difficult to get them to leave their lovely home. And on Sunday night, they are not going to leave their lovely home because they love television, too. They have a color television, and they are going to look at the programs on Sunday night because there are some good ones then. But when the Lord comes, my friend, you are going to leave the television; you are going to leave that lovely home; you are going to leave everything. I have just one question to ask you: Will it break your heart to leave all of this down here?
I have asked myself that question many times. To be honest with you, I am not anxious to leave. I would love to stay. I have my friends and loved ones whom I want to be with. And I have the radio ministry that I want to continue. I’ll be frank with you, I hope the Lord will just let me stay here awhile longer. But I also want to be able to say that when He does call, I will not have a thing down here which will break my heart to leave—not a thing. I love my home too, but I would just as soon go off and leave it. How do you feel about that today? Mrs. Lot turned and looked back, and this is one of the explanations.
The other reason that she looked back is simply that she did not believe God. God had said, “Leave the city, and don’t look back.” Lot didn’t look back; he believed God. But Mrs. Lot did not believe God. She was not a believer, and so she didn’t really make it out of the city. She was turned to a pillar of salt.
I am not going to go into the story of Lot’s two daughters in verses 31–38. It is as sordid as it can be. Frankly, Lot did not do well in moving down to the city of Sodom. He lost everything except his own soul. His life is a picture of a great many people who will not judge the sins of their lives. They are saved, “yet so as by fire.” The Lord has said in a very definite way to these folk who have put all their eggs in a basket like this that if they will not judge their sin down here, He will judge it. Apparently, that was the case in Lot’s story..." McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Law (Genesis 16-33) (electronic ed., Vol. 2, pp. 51–52). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
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There is a large amount of commentary on Lot's wife, and we are to remember her story.
But we should not neglect other points in the Genesis account.
Lot himself hesitated so much so as leader of his household,
that the angels dragged him and his family by the hands, by force it seems.
16When Lot hesitated, the [angels] grasped his hand and the hands
of his wife and of his two daughters and led them out... (Gen 19:16)...
Again, the main issue was speed, which seems to be why one of the Angels
gave instructions about not stopping or looking back:
17. ... one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back,
and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (Gen 19:17)..
So the command to 'not look back' was in a context of extreme hurriedness
and danger. If Lot's wife had stopped and held up the whole family for
any significant time, they would apparently have all perished.
These instructions were apparently the last the angels gave before
departing from Lot and his family, and were of grave importance.
Lot's wife may have been struck by molten debris from the sky,
or been burned by erupting salt from the ground as the plain was
smashed and broken up.
The devastation was so severe that all the forest and farmland all around
was utterly destroyed, - i.e., the entire plain, and the smoke and
destruction could be seen even from the hills of Judaea where Abraham was.
25. Thus the LORD overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the countryside.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Gen 17:25-26)
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned
to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke
rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
(Gen 17:27-28)
We should also take note that it wasn't Lot's righteousness
that saved him, but rather Abraham's righeousness that saved Lot and his family:
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out
of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Some good verses to ponder while remembering Lot's wife.
But we should not neglect other points in the Genesis account.
Lot himself hesitated so much so as leader of his household,
that the angels dragged him and his family by the hands, by force it seems.
16When Lot hesitated, the [angels] grasped his hand and the hands
of his wife and of his two daughters and led them out... (Gen 19:16)...
Again, the main issue was speed, which seems to be why one of the Angels
gave instructions about not stopping or looking back:
17. ... one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back,
and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (Gen 19:17)..
So the command to 'not look back' was in a context of extreme hurriedness
and danger. If Lot's wife had stopped and held up the whole family for
any significant time, they would apparently have all perished.
These instructions were apparently the last the angels gave before
departing from Lot and his family, and were of grave importance.
Lot's wife may have been struck by molten debris from the sky,
or been burned by erupting salt from the ground as the plain was
smashed and broken up.
The devastation was so severe that all the forest and farmland all around
was utterly destroyed, - i.e., the entire plain, and the smoke and
destruction could be seen even from the hills of Judaea where Abraham was.
25. Thus the LORD overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the countryside.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Gen 17:25-26)
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned
to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke
rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
(Gen 17:27-28)
We should also take note that it wasn't Lot's righteousness
that saved him, but rather Abraham's righeousness that saved Lot and his family:
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out
of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Some good verses to ponder while remembering Lot's wife.
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