AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT......(Part 9)

As it was in the Days of Lot……….

By Kenute Curry

(PART 9)

ENCASED IN SALT

At this point, Lot’s wife looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt מֶלַח [melach /meh·lakh/]. The command was clear, not to look back or linger, but to escape (v. 17). Lot’s wife disobeyed and she became encased in salt. Her destruction was sudden. Jesus referred to her in His teaching on the sudden destruction that will come in the last days. “Remember Lot’s wife,” Jesus warned (Luke 17:32).

SMOKE RISING

Early the next morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD. He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the Jordan Valley, and saw smoke rising like that of a furnace. When God destroyed the cities, He remembered זָכַר, זָכַר, מַזְכִּיר [zakar /zaw·kar/] what Abraham had asked and spared Lot’s life. When Abraham saw the smoke, he must have known the truth: there were not even ten righteous in the city (Genesis 18:32). If it were not for Abraham, Lot would have died with the other inhabitants.

 

STUDY GUIDE

 

1. Why was Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt?

2. How does Jesus refer to her in Luke 17:32?

3. What did Abraham see when he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah?

4. When God destroyed the cites what did He remember?

 

 

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.