Justification's Impervious Shield

These two verses serve to amend any understanding of Lot that is based solely on the information from the Old Testament narrative concerning him and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Here we learn through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that Lot had spiritual discernment and that he understood that the behavior of the residents of Sodom was wicked before the Lord. The Holy Spirit presents Lot to us as a justified man with all that must be true concerning him. We learn that he was extremely agitated by all the wickedness that went on around him, but that his compromises with that wickedness left him extremely weak in his ability to confront it. Nevertheless, Lot was delivered from the destruction of the city and is a picture of the Lord's people being delivered from that divine wrath that will bring this age to its end.