When informed by the Lord that Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed because of the wickedness of the people, Abraham asked if the righteous would be destroyed with the wicked. (Genesis 18:23) If ten righteous could be found the cities would be spared. Abraham knew Lot, his family and his herdsmen were in the area. One would think that they would have been sufficient to account for ten righteous souls. But Peter writes, “(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;).” (Second Peter 2:8) Lot stayed above the wickedness but lost his wife while fleeing the city. “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) We sometimes think that we will not get pulled down to the level of the unrighteous. But beware, it is easier to pull something down than to pull something up.
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