In the book of Genesis, the nephew of Abraham, Lot, associated himself with the Sodomites. Lot made this choice to live among these people because he felt it would help him earn more money, but when the people of Sodom met trouble and demise, Lot also shared a part of their fate during the invasion of the five kings of the plains. These five kings were enemies of the Sodomite people who also associated Lot with their enemies.

Lots association with them brought the same retribution on himself, as a righteous person that was brought on the wicked. His family suffered with him for his decision.

It was his uncle Abraham, who was a truly righteous man, and had a relationship with God. However before the final attack, the smell of the world brought Lot back to Sodom, after Abraham’s army of servants defeated the five kings. Through Abraham, not only was Lot saved, but his family and also many of the inhabitants of Sodom. Abraham, who was the reason for his being saved, both times that the city was attacked had already established himself as a true worshipper of the Almighty God.

Genesis 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Genesis 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Genesis 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Later the LORD would later come down and let Abraham know that He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone for their wickedness. It would be then that Abraham’s prayer as a friend of God, would be the salvation of Lot and his family. Otherwise they all would have died because his was in association with people who lived an evil life style. The sin of Sodom majorly was as the Bible describes the participation in homosexuality. We know this for two reasons.

One, when the angels came to retrieve Lot and his family, he asked them not to do this wickedness to these men, but to take his virgin daughters, suggesting that fornication was not as evil, as what The men wanted to do. The men themselves began to push against Lot’s door, and were blinded by the angels; still they wearied themselves trying to get into the doorway where the “men” who were really angels were. Their wickedness had come up to heaven and the angels were sent to verify this before destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire. Gen 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. Gen 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Gen 19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: Gen 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. Yet it was too late to save two of his daughters, ot living at home, and the integrity of his family. Association brings about assimilation, they say. Because of the prayers of Abraham, angels intervened in order to bring the rest of his family out of Sodom before it was burned to the ground, even this was not enough the save his family from the influence of the world around them. This would prove disappointing and devastating to their effort to live as a family and the righteous setting that he had been used to.

They were warned not to look aback as they were leaving the doomed city, but this was too much for Lot’s wife possibly, to lose her home and belongings in an instance. She looked back anyway, and the terror of it caused her to turn to a pillar of salt immediately ending her life. In grief the Father and two daughters continued on to Zoar, he would find that this would not be the only devastating thing that life among the sodomites had caused.

His daughters were just as sexually impure as the people that they lived among. Life among the ungodly can ruin the moral compass of anyone, just as the scriptures say. In the book of revelation says “come out from among them and be ye separate”. This is what happened:

Genesis 19:30 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. Genesis 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Genesis 19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Genesis 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor whenshe arose. Genesis 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. Because possessions meant more to Lot than righteousness, and the care of his family, he ended in a cave of shame. Bad company does corrupt good morals.