As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot,
saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be
swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16 But he lingered. So the men
seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being
merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Why Lot lingered we do not know. We know
from 2 Peter 2 that he had come to both cry out against the city's immorality
and to continue to pitch his tent among them. Whatever compelled him to stay
before likely motivated his procrastination at the present. But God, in His
mercy, did not give Lot what his delay deserved. He brought him out of harm's
way by His grace, because He wanted to, not because Lot had earned the right to
be rescued.
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