Lot and his daughters

[Claudya]

Do the Scriptures really tell us that Lot was righteous? If so, can someone supply the reference. I don't think that God saved Lot because Lot was righteous, but rather on Abraham's account.
Genesis 19:29 "Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived."

Good point, actually. In Genesis 18, near the end of that chapter, Abraham negotiated with God (it always amazed me, how the allmighty God would allow a mere mortal to negotiate with Him and change His plans!) and God agreed to spare the cities if He'd find ten righteous (depending on the translation you look at different adjectives are used) people inside.
We know the cities didn't get spared, so God didn't find ten righteous ones.
But He found Lot and his family, and evacuated them. This may mean God considered them righteous enough to live. They were less thann 10, so the cities still got destroyed.
But it also may mean that God's angels decided to save Lot, despite their lack of righteousness, but to to repay their hospitality.
The point is, it seems like there's no line saying Lot was righteous.

 

[handy]

Good thoughts, Claudya. I've always thought the story of Lot was more about how God will listen to our prayers for our loved ones (as Abraham interceded for Lot) than about Lot's own righteousness. But, I'm sure God also took into account the horrible environment that Lot was in, by his own choosing, btw (Gen 13) and spared Lot and his daughters.

We do need to wonder though, what would have been Lot's fate had Abraham not interceded on his behalf. This surely is a prompt for us to remember our loved ones in prayer!

 

[handy]

Ah-ha! I must thank Farouk for pointing out to me that 2 Peter 2:7 does indeed call Lot righteous. I stand corrected!:yes

 

[Sinthesis]

Any interpretation of Genesis 19 should consider how that would then relate to Judges 19. Wickedness is wickedness, and I don't see the purpose of these chapters as specificly demonizing homosexuality, rape or incest so much as using obvious sexual transgression to graphically illustrate spiritual transgression.

 

[iLOVE]

Scripture does not reveal Lot's reasoning for offering up his daughters. Whatever his thought process was, it was wrong and indefensible. Based on what is revealed about Lot's life one might wonder if he was righteous. However, there is no doubt that God had declared him to be positionally righteous, even during his time in Sodom. "And if God rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds)" (2 Peter 2:7-8). At some point Lot had believed in the coming Messiah, and that faith resulted in a righteous standing before God. It is likely that Lot's uncle, Abraham, had passed this truth down to him.

We may sit in judgment of the culture of that day, but protecting one’s guests required great sacrifice. Was Lot right to offer his own daughters in place of the ones that the men of Sodom wanted? No. We can see in the story that the Lord’s messengers protected Lot and his daughters in spite of Lot’s lack of character and worldly viewpoint. Lot meant to appease the men of Sodom so that the hospitality of his house would not be damaged, but he makes the wrong choice in offering his own daughters, and God’s messengers overruled him.

 

[VirginShallConceive]

Another thing that was weird was that Jesus Christ descended from the union of Lot and at least one of his daughters.


Then again, probably all of us are descended from them.

 

[handy]

Another thing that was weird was that Jesus Christ descended from the union of Lot and at least one of his daughters.


Then again, probably all of us are descended from them.

Hmmm, learn something new every day. I honestly never made the connection between Moab, Ruth and Jesus.