".....and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man,....."
Wait just a minute, righteous? Lot is righteous?
Okay, lets go back a bit to Genesis 19 and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Theses are cities that were full of immortality and where Lot was living with his family. God had sent two men/angels to the city to see if the rumors of the cities sin was true. They became the guests of Lot's home and he protected them from evil that came knocking on the door. God saved Lot and his daughters from the destruction because Lot showed himself to be righteous.
2Peter 2:6-10 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
It is easy to make judgement of Lot's life. Even as the men are trying to convince him to leave he is slow moving and unsure. Yet, he knows he needs to go. Somehow, we do the same to people we know. We judge based on a snap shot of a persons life vs the whole of their hearts desire. Lot was imperfect, maybe not the strongest in faith and struggled with sin. I suppose this is something God sees in all of us and still he promises to rescue us all.
1 Timothy 2:3-6This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time. (emphasis mine)
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