Read Genesis 19
Lot recognized these messengers were from the LORD and took them aside to feed them and care for their needs. The men of the town hear of the strangers and come to Lot's home in order to rape them. Lot in a less than noble moment offered up his daughters to the men of the city if they would not rape the strangers who were guests in his home. Through supernatural intervention the men of the city were turned away from the house with blindness.
The word of coming destruction was pronounced and Lot went about warning his family. But Lot had lost all influence. No one cared or believed him. Lot, his wife and daughters hesitated, but God showed them mercy and led them out of the city. Escaping to the small town, Zoar, they were rescued from the burning disaster that fell from the heavens upon the city. Lot's wife stopped to return and was killed/transformed by the falling judgment on the land. Lot and his daughter lived alone in the mountains in a desperate incestuous relationship. A horrific ending to a sad family. Two nations of people would come from these daughters, but Lot's life can only be viewed as a sad failure due to rotten choices and foolish calculations.
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