23. By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
24. Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of the heavens.
25. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.
26. But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27. Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
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I think we have to think about the importance of trust and faithfulness again here....I wonder why Lot's wife actually looks back here, though she should remember the Lord telling her not to look back. It could have been out of curiosity or she might have forgotten the warnings.... Despite all that, God remembers Abraham and Lot and save them and their households. This scene truly shows us how faithful or Lord is toward those who abide by His words.
Human nature to do the things we are not to do. We were told not to eat the fruit of wisdom and so we did. Like the saying "curiosity killed the cat" it seems Lot's wife couldn't control her urge to look and thus became a pillar of salt.
I hope to depend on Christ and the guidance from the Holy Spirit so that I can fully obey God.
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