The Transforming Power of the Gospel--2 Peter 2:6-9 "Righteous Lot!?"
Last week we looked at Peter’s warning to the church about false teachers seeking pervert the Gospel message. As Peter is assuring us that God will judge the wicked, he tosses in this little snippet about Righteous Lot. We breezed by it then, but today we are going to look at in depth.
If Peter didn’t specifically describe Lot as righteous THREE times in the passage, none of us would have thought of him as such. Today, I want to address this passage by answering four questions that come to mind when we think of Lot being righteous.
Background:
First, Let’s get up to speed as to who Lot is.
We meet Lot in Genesis 11. He’s the nephew of Abram. In Gen 12, He went with Abram into the Land on Canaan, then to avoid a famine into Egypt. In Gen 13, they come back to Canaan, but they have grown so wealthy they land can’t support them together. In separating, Abram gave Lot his choice of land. Lot takes the well-watered Jordan Valley and ends up drifting all the way south to Sodom.
In Gen 14, Lot gets captured in an attack on Sodom and must be rescued by Abram. The next time we see Lot is in Gen 19. God’s messengers have come to count the righteous. Finding less than the negotiated 10, they push Lot and his family out of the city and proceed to destroy it. The last we see of Lot is in the end of Gen 19 where his daughters, thinking everyone is dead, sleep with Lot and have his children/grandchildren.
Several descriptions come to mind when thinking about Lot, but “righteous” usually isn’t one of them. So, what gives? How does this all work?
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