He feared to dwell

“And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.”

The angels told Lot to escape to the mountains so that he wouldn’t be destroyed along with Sodom. He didn’t really want to go because his heart was still in Sodom, never the less, he left the city and hoped to be able to go to another small city nearby. Lot was used to living in the city and he didn’t want to return to the nomadic ways that he gave up when he moved in to Sodom. Lot went to the small city but he was afraid to live there. The people in Zoar knew that Lot was from Sodom, after all, he was an important man from Sodom. No doubt, some of the people from Zoar had seen Lot when they went down to that city to do business because Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. All the people in Zoar would have known that Lot had escaped Sodom, in fact, he was the only person, along with his daughters, who had escaped from that city. It would not have taken long before the people in Zoar would have wondered why Lot was the only one who had escaped. They would also remember that Lot’s uncle, Abraham, had previously saved the cities of the Plain from their enemies. The questions would, surely, have been similar to those that were asked of the Lord Jesus Christ, as recorded in John 11: 37 “And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?” or Matthew 27: 42, 43 “He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.” If Lot’s uncle was able to defeat the four kings from Mesopotamia why didn’t his uncle do something to save the people of Sodom and Gomorrah? Before long Lot was afraid for his life and he lived in a cave in the mountains. Lot ended up in the mountains, where he didn’t want to go, but he didn’t have the options that were available to him at first. We don’t even have evidence to suggest that Lot made contact with Abraham again.

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