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4. It was a punishment that answered to their sin. Burning lusts against nature were justly punished with this preternatural burning. Those that went after strange flesh were destroyed by strange fire, Jude 1:7. They persecuted the angels with their rabble, and made Lot afraid; and now God persecuted them with his tempest, and made them afraid with his storm, Ps 83:15.
5. It was designed for a standing revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners in all ages. It is, accordingly, often referred to in the scripture, and made a pattern of the ruin of Israel (De 29:23), of Babylon (Isa 13:19), of Edom (Jer 49:17, 18), of Moab and Ammon, Zep 2:9. Nay, it was typical of the vengeance of eternal fire (Jude 1:7), and the ruin of all that live ungodly (2Pe 2:6), especially that despise the gospel, Mt 10:15. It is in allusion to this destruction that the place of the damned is often represented by a lake that burns, as Sodom did, with fire and brimstone. Let us learn from it,
(1.) The evil of sin, and the hurtful nature of it. Iniquity tends to ruin.
(2.) The terrors of the Lord. See what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God!
25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar
of salt.
This also is written for our admonition. Our Savior refers to it (Lu 17:32), Remember Lot's wife. As by the example of Sodom the wicked are warned to turn from their wickedness, so by the example of Lot's wife the righteous are warned not to turn from their righteousness. See Eze 3:18, 20. We have here,
I The sin of Lot's wife: She looked back from behind him. This seemed a small thing, but we are sure, by the punishment of it, that it was a great sin, and exceedingly sinful.