19:23-26
Lot reaches Zoar and the Lord rained down burning sulphur on Sodom and Gomorrah. The cities were completely wiped out, including the people and the vegetation. The environment’s future is inextricably tied in with man’s well-being. Lot’s wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt. No explanation of why she became a pillar of salt is given here. In Luke 17:32 we are warned to remember Lot’s wife. This is given in the context of Jesus talking about the coming fall of Jerusalem in particular, and the last days in general. It is followed by the warning “whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it” (Lk 17:33). We must not hanker back to the life from which we have escaped.
19:27-29
We now get back to Abraham, who had the interchange with the Lord over Sodom and Gomorrah. He went to the place where he had met the Lord and looked out over the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and saw the dense smoke of destruction rising over the land. Abraham’s heart must have been sinking at that point, thinking that his nephew would have perished along with the two cities. However, this was not the case. In v29 we read that “God remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot lived”. God knew why Abraham had had the interchange over the destruction, He knows what is in our hearts.
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