Lot and his Daughters: Living in Wicked Sodom Warped Their Thinking – Genesis Chapter 19
by Sabrina Dawkins
The angels who came to destroy Sodom looked like regular men but had the power of angels sent by God. And as Abraham had been to the Lord and the two angels, Lot was hospitable to the two men and even made a feast for them. But Lot seemed largely oblivious of the evil that surrounded him. He didn’t ask the two angels who looked like men to save him from such a wicked place. He had seemingly acclimated to Sodom.
Lot was unafraid of going out by himself and facing all the men, young and old, of Sodom who were ready to break down his door in order to rape the two angels disguised as men who were in his house; he couldn’t see the impending danger. He confronted the ungodly males of Sodom as if it were a simple neighbor dispute that he would handle quickly. The angels, however, knew the severity of the situation and saved Lot from the crowd of men who were going to harm him for denying them access to the two men.
Morally compromised in his thinking, Lot had even offered his two virgin daughters to the wicked men of Sodom to do whatever they wanted with in an attempt to save the two men who had come into his house. A father’s instinct should be to protect his daughters. But the angels blinded the males, young and old, so that they could not find the door.
The two angels told Lot that they would destroy the city and to therefore bring his family out of it. But when Lot told his sons-in-law, they didn’t take him seriously. They too seemed to be oblivious of the wickedness that engulfed Sodom, and/or they did not believe in the power of God, Sodom being a godless place. But Lot believed in God and believed that he had commanded the city be destroyed; however, he did hesitate and the angels had to force him quickly out of the city because God was merciful to him. Despite living amongst a city of homosexual men, Lot recognized homosexuality as wicked: He retained at least some morality.
God rained hell on Sodom and Gomorrah: fire and brimstone (Revelation 14:10; 20:10). But he “remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow” (Genesis 19:29). Lot and his family were told not to look behind them as they fled or they would be consumed. Lot’s wife looked back, however, and was consumed, but Lot was obedient and did not look back.
Lot’s two daughters had also become morally compromised in their thinking. After being rescued from Sodom, they got their father drunk and raped him to preserve his seed. Lot and his family were shaped by evil from living in such an evil place.
His firstborn daughter produced the father of the Moabites, and the younger produced the father of the children of Ammon. Ruth was a Moabite. After her husband had died, she returned to the land of Judah with her Israelite mother-in-law, saying, “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” (Ruth 1:16). She became the great-grandmother of King David.