It took me about 15 minutes to read this passage. I was interrupted a couple of times.
There was a cry against Sodom and Gomorrah; and it wasn’t just God’s righteousness that was crying out for justice. There must have been victims calling out to God. Victims of all sorts of crime and injustice. This was not a place of alternate lifestyle people dwelling in harmony; it was a city of violence and destruction. How did Lot survive? The Bible doesn’t indicate how large the city was (Jonah was told the population of Nineveh) so we don’t know how small a percentage 4 people was of the population, but I would guess that Lot’s family was a rarity indeed. Christians sometimes do God an injustice when we focus all of our condemnation on the homosexual intent of the mob outside of Lot’s house. There was so much more corruption involved in the life of Sodom; and the victims’ voices moved God to act.
Stuart
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