i do not think either Lot or his wife is condemned in the text, and with that post I mean to make a point i have repeated, that every accusation being made against Mrs. Lot here is equally valid against Lot if not more valid against him.
so if we don't condemn him, we should not condemn her either. if we condemn her, we should equally condemn him and start writing apostle Peter angry emails. lol
Irenaeus suggests we do not condemn either, but thank God for His mercy on them, and concentrate our study on looking for types in the narrative.
i think this is good advice
“Lot was saved by grace but they were warned not to look back nor else tbey would share in the punishment and so you have this part the warning before hand
“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said,
Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.
( this is what Lot said )
“behold now,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; (saved by grace but also he asks the lord to save a city that he can go to instead and the lord is gracious and does it )
and
I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: behold now,
this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and
my soul shall live.
And he said unto him,
See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.”
(So you have lot and his wife and daughters all saved by Gods grace but they are told “ don’t look back escape now in haste )
But
his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Genesis 19:17, 26 KJV
the way anyone gets condemned is when we hear what God said will save us. Like she was told but
we do what he says not to do , instead of what he said to do
Since Adam and Eve
God said don’t eat the fruit or you will die …man ate the fruit and began to sin and die they were condemned to death by their own deeds knowing God said “ you will die “
“Wherefore, as
by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
Romans 5:12 KJV
And then the first man ever born was told “ just do what is right and good and you will be accepted “ but instead he lured his brother out to a field and murdered him
then God gave a whole nation a written law with ordinances and instructions and at its conclusion he says of this law
“See,
I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall
bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:15-19 KJV
it’s always breaking what God says beforehand that causes a condemnation or curse so her condemnation would have been to become the pillar of salt and reminder of what not to do in a teaching of Jesus
“Remember Lot's wife.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it;
and
whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
Luke 17:32-33 KJV
Lot forgot all his possessions and life in those places when god delivered them out as he was told just forget it and go
his wife was looking back to all they had and were in that place thoer life she was lamenting it seems as Jesus uses this in the middle of a lesson basically saying
lots whole family was saved by Gods faithfulness to the chosen and called Abram and his graciousness to lot also
But three of them survived and one didn’t ones life ended that day with the rest of the city
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