Remembering Lot’s Wife

[Hemidakota]

Photo Credit: Christiancarguy

EXCERPT: I could almost see her. She probably lived a sumptuous life in Sodom. Her clothing was soft and luxurious. Her table was laden with the good things of the earth. Her home was large and beautifully decorated. She had status in her community and people looked up to her. She was also aware that things in Sodom were not right. She knew the people of the city were filled with wickedness, but she tolerated all of it because she loved the life she lived and she was loathe to give it up.

Then came that fateful morning when angels awoke her husband and commanded that he hurry and take his family and flee the city. She knew that day would come; she just thought it would be a long way off. Warned earlier, her husband, Lot, had been sent to warn his sons in law which married his daughters that they too should prepare to leave the city before the Lord destroyed it. They had only laughed. So, when morning arose, Lot’s wife left with her husband and two daughters lest they be consumed with the iniquity of the city. Lot lingered once along the way, but the angels firmly took hold of his hand and also the hand of his wife and daughters and they hustled them out warning them not to look back. Fire and brimstone commenced to rain down. Somewhere in all the excitement, Lot’s wife could contain herself no longer; she just had to get one glimpse. She looked back. She did not survive.

LINK: Meridian Magazine : : Debt-Free Living: Remembering Lot's Wife

LINK: Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland talk: Remember Lot's Wife

[Dravin]

I find it interesting that everyone seems to mention that she wanted her creature comforts but everyone seems to forget she was probably leaving family and friends behind. It doesn't change the lesson to be learned appreciably, but it does make her a more sympathetic person. How many of the parents on this board if told to leave behind family would have a hard time taking a part of their heart with them? Admittedly we don't know much about her, maybe she didn't care one wit about the family and friends left behind but maybe the lesson to be learned is a little less serving mammon and a little more he who loveth mother and father more than me.

[Moksha]

A pillar of salt cannot replace a bottle of Heinz Ketchup for poetic imagery, but it can serve as a very good case for Sacred Allegory in the Bible.

[Tamiele]

I am a beginner with my scriptures and religious history, but is that picture actually her?? Sorry, stupid question I know, but I can't help but ask.

[Blackmarch]

I am a beginner with my scriptures and religious history, but is that picture actually her?? Sorry, stupid question I know, but I can't help but ask.

According to local legend it's her.. but that's about as far as it gets.

[Hemidakota]

Exactly...

Even Josephus claimed he witnessed the salt pillar but without further revelation from a living prophet, it is nothing more than cultural fables at this point.

[Hemidakota]

link - Jasher

Jasher 19:52 And he overthrew these cities, all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground; and Ado the wife of Lot looked back to see the destruction of the cities, for her compassion was moved on account of her daughters who remained in Sodom, for they did not go with her.

53 And when she looked back she became a pillar of salt, and it is yet in that place unto this day.

Change, how many daughters did Lot have?