At the beginning of this paragraph in verse 30, what Lot did sort of reminds me of what Israel did when they were in the wilderness, when they were approaching the second year from Egypt, and the spies went out and spied the land, and then they came back with horror stories about the land, and two of them gave a good report. So the people based on the report of the ten and decided that they would not go up into the land, they would not leave the comfort of the wilderness they were in and go up into a land where there were frightening trials to overcome. So they made the decision that they would not do as God said, but they would stay in the wilderness. Then God chastised them and the people wept, then made the decision that they were going to go where God told them to go in the first place.
That is exactly what Lot did here. They told him to go up to the mountain, and then he pleaded to be allowed to stay in the plain there in the little city. So God granted him that favor, and then after the awesomeness of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah he repents, and just like the Israelites, he decided to go up into the place where God told him to go in the first place. Now he was frightened.
When the Israelites went to go up into the land, they met with a very severe defeat at the hands of the people of the land, and here we have Lot, he finally does what God told him to do in the first place and he goes up to the higher ground and what does he do? He falls before another corruption.
Again, here we have these two young ladies, they are representing, in type, principles, and now they are defiled principles. Before they were virgins, they were pure. But now they are defiled, and out of these defiled principles, Lot keeps on producing less than pure results. So, God allows him to continue, to continue on earth, but, if you will remember, He refused these people as part of the congregation. Do you remember that? Where He made that law in Deuteronomy? The Moabites were not allowed to come into the congregation of Israel, they were not accepted.
I think what the daughters did shows how affected they were by Sodom. You see, their thinking was twisted, it was perverted. They were willing to involve themselves in incest rather than go through the normal course of being given in marriage by their father and producing children by the husbands that they marry.
You might think by what they said here, “that there was no man on earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth,” That they were justifying what they were doing by saying that there was nobody left on earth, and that Lot was the only man and that they were the only women. No, that is not true. Remember, they had just come from Zoar which was well-inhabited with men and women. There were people that they could have married, but their justification was that because they were the only ones to escape wicked Sodom, that the stench and the violence and the filth of everything that Sodom represented clung to them, and that no young men would marry them because of where they were from. That was their justification. Talk about someone being from the other side of the tracks. That is the way they felt.
You can see what happens whenever people give up on their principles. They make justifications and sinned. That is a major part of the lesson that is here. They were deeply affected. The daughters had so little feeling of shame about what they did that they actually immortalized the illicit paternity that resulted from the incest with their father.
Do you know what Moab means? Moab means, from the father. You can tell they were twisted in their thinking. Do you know what Ammon means? Well, it shows here that it is an analogous to Ben Ammi, which means son of my people. It is very similar to “from the father.” Ammon, which is derived from that, seems to indicate, sprout of the nation, or beginning of the nation, or pertaining to the nation. All … . . .
