Genesis 19:27 Commentary and Bible Study

What a contrast is Abraham. He is engaged in his regular morning prayer. He has gone back to the place where he could judge whether his intercession had been successful. God knew the care Abraham had for Lot, and revealed this to him to spur him on to prayer. Did he think with horror for the moment, that Lot may have been destroyed with that city? But no, he would not have harboured that thought, because he trusted God. God must have delivered them, if they were righteous. The intercession of a righteous man is powerful.‘God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow.’ That is what it was, an overthrow, and Lot was delivered in answer to Abraham’s prayer, though not in the way he expected and ask. Lot does not come through very well in this record. He believed in God. He was a saved man. He had a righteous soul. He hated many of the things they did in Sodom, but he was there, and it affected him and it made him much less of a man and a saint than he would have been.