Bible Prophecy For Dummies Series

Why did Jesus warn us to remember her? I’m sure Mrs. Lot was basically a good person, the salt of the earth. Her mistake was she still loved Sodom so much she couldn’t resist one last look. Sadly, our pews are filled with people who are religious on Sundays, but they are still fascinated and enamored with this world. I John 2:15-17 warns: “Do not love the world or anything in the world…For everything in the world, the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does–comes not from the Father...the world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”

Before Lot moved into Sodom there is no record of him being married, so we assume he found a wife in Sodom and lived there long enough to have a family. Mrs. Lot married a righteous man and probably accepted his religion and prayed to the one God, but she never fully got over her love for Sodom. On the mountain that day, she was out of Sodom, but Sodom wasn’t out of her. Mrs. Lot represents people who have a superficial interest in God and the Bible, but they never truly commit themselves to Him. Oh, they are close to people who know Jesus, and they hope to be saved by association. Sometimes teenagers or adults think they’ll go to heaven because their parents are Christians, but God has no grandchildren, only children. A husband may think he’ll go to heaven because his wife is such a dedicated disciple, but it won’t happen.

Mrs. Lot is a sad reminder of how people will be separated at the rapture. Jesus said two people would be at work. When Jesus returns like lightning, BLINK, one will be taken and the other one is left. A husband a wife will be sleeping together. The wife loves Jesus and has prayed for her husband for years but he thinks religion is for women, children, and sissies. BLINK, suddenly she is gone–and he is left behind to endure the worst time in the history of the word. Don’t make the mistake of Lot’s wife! Don’t love this old world, love God with all you heart, mind, soul, and strength!

CONCLUSION

In the last verse of Luke 17 Jesus answered a final question. In verse 37, His disciples asked Him, “WHERE will this all happen?” (Notice they didn’t ask “when?”) Jesus said, “Look for the buzzards.” Commentators offer some esoteric interpretations of that statement; their problem is they just don’t know much about buzzards. If you grew up in Texas or Alabama, chances are you know something about buzzards. As a child, I used to ride in the pickup with my dad, a forester for International Paper. Once when I was about six years old, I looked up and saw seven or eight big black birds flying in a tight circle. I asked my dad what was going on. He explained buzzards eat dead animals. When they find a dead or dying one, they fly around in circles before they have their meal. I thought that was pretty neat, and I became so fascinated about buzzards I decided I’d catch one and make it my pet. A few days later, I saw a buzzard flying above our house, so I ran inside and got a bottle of ketchup and splattered it all over my white t-shirt and went out in the back yard and lay down. My plan was when the buzzard landed to check me out, I’d jump up and catch him. I thought it was a pretty good plan until my mom looked out the kitchen window and saw me, she let out a scream and came running out to check on me. When she saw it was ketchup, I was the one who caught it!