"But Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt."
Genesis 19:26
For thousands of years, salt was used as a preservative, not a seasoning. This is a creative metaphor to explain Mrs. Lot’s story. It’s interesting to me how the warning that the angels gave Lot (Abraham’s nephew) and his family are similar to the warning that is given to us in the end, before Yahuah pours His wrath out on this world.
In Genesis 19, you read the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yah was bringing destruction to a group of wicked, perverted, abominable cities, in which He couldn’t even find ten righteous people to subdue His wrath.
Lot, his wife and their two daughters were the only ones who escaped. After they were pulled out of the city, the angels warned Lot and his family, “Get out of this place! Run for your lives! Don’t look back or you will be swept away!”
Yahuah was wanting to rescue them from the wickedness, but more importantly, from His destruction.
Unfortunately, Lot’s wife looked back. This spoke of her inclination to go back to the city, her home. This exposed either her secret longing for that way of life or a hankering to go back for her house and/or her belongings. Or maybe, she didn’t really want to be rescued from sin.
We don’t know for sure.
She had her gaze fixed on the things of this world, so Yahuah froze her in that fixation, permanently—as a pillar of salt. She was deemed unworthy to be saved.
Yahusha also tells us in Luke 9:62, that “no one who puts their hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of Yahuah.” He uses that as a warning against apostasy from our profession of faith as well as an exhortation to the demand of obedience. We’re required to make a choice, which is why we are told to “count the cost.”
The same warning in the Book of Revelation applies to us today. Just as Yahuah burned up Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and sulfur, the same thing is promised to this earth in the end. Actually, Yahusha says that for whoever does not listen to His words and warnings, then the day of final judgment will be worse than what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. His messengers are warning us today, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4).
To “come out” of this world, means to live a set apart life and to understand what that means from a biblical perspective according to the truth and the instructions we are given in Scripture.
If your spiritual gaze were frozen in this exact moment, where would it be fixated?
Yah wants our gaze fixated on Him and His Word only. You can’t stand on both sides. I’ve read how this story ends. It’s either Him or the world. You can’t choose both. He has been pleading with His people since the beginning of time. The final warning to “come out of her” is being pleaded until the last trumpet sounds.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15
With love,
Stephanie