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Luke 17:32-33
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Five)Undoubtedly the major lesson from Lot's wife is derived from her looking back as we saw back in Genesis 19, and her looking back was interpreted by Jesus' following statement, the statement that we read there in verse 33. Everybody remembers that she looked back. Jesus says remember it, and His interpretation is whoever seeks to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Jesus' interpretation was that what she did revealed a longing to preserve the life that she came from—the life in Sodom—and it was her desire to save that rather than discard her way of life. She not only looked back, as we found, she also dawdled. She dawdled so much that she did not make it to the place of safety. Lot made it. The daughters made it, but she looked back from behind. It does not say that she merely looked back behind her, but it shows that she looked back from behind Lot.
In other words, she was trailing him, perhaps by a significant distance, and so God destroyed Sodom and the other cities of the plain. Apparently whenever Lot stepped into the city that was the signal, BAM! The fire and brimstone came down out of heaven and they made it inside the city, but Lot's wife, who was dawdling behind seeking to save her way of life, was incinerated, killed by the gases, or whatever, and turned into a pillar of salt. I think it is pretty plain that she did not make it to the place of safety. Zoar, in that case, was the place of safety, but her underlying action—and this is what we need to understand—was a severe lack of faith. She did not believe it when the angel told her to get out, to leave, to escape. "God is going to destroy this city. Destruction is imminent. Leave!"
Luke 17:24-33
Excerpted from: Faith (Part 4)In the midst of this instruction regarding the conditions that are going to exist at the time of His return, He specifically draws attention to the awful state of unreadiness, being unprepared, that the people are going to be in then. I want you also to see that the instruction is not to the Pharisees. The instruction is to His disciples. He is warning they better be prepared because the people in the world are going to be going through their normal routines. They are not going to be prepared. They are not going to be ready. There is more than that there. He does not just say, be aware of her. He says, Remember! almost as if He is concerned that all of us, all of his disciples, are in danger of forgetting. Urgency! Was she urgent to leave? Was she ready to leave? No she was not.
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