Genesis 19:12-14

"And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the place. For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one who mocked."

The question of the heavenly visitors regarding sons-in-law, sons, etc., naturally suggests that Lot actually had all these in his family. By rendering the clause in Genesis 19:14, "who were to marry his daughters," some are able to restrict the meaning of son-in-law to those betrothed to the daughters who with Lot escaped from the city, but there is nothing in the text about any betrothal. As Kline noted, "This passage also allows that the marriages had already taken place; and that, therefore, Lot also had daughters living with their husbands in addition to the two daughters with him."[11] As for why the wife was not mentioned, the divine messengers knew already that she would be unwilling to escape, and the same would appear to be true also concerning Lot's sons. The whole problem of just who might have belonged to Lot is unimportant anyway, the only significant thing being that just he and two unmarried daughters survived the holocaust.

What a sad commentary this is upon the family of Lot! Sodom had already destroyed his loved ones. There was no need whatever for him to approach his sons. Long ago they had rejected "the old man" and fallen in enthusiastically with the "new morality" of Sodom. Even his married daughters had no option. Their marriage to Sodomites had removed it. Hence, the only way of saving even them was by approaching their husbands, who of course, hooted at the idea of flight.

"Jehovah hath sent us to destroy the place ..." The judgment of the Lord upon Sodom was justified. The apostle Paul stated flatly that proponents and practitioners of the type of sins visible here are "worthy of death" (Romans 1:32), and the permissive views of the current society are not sufficient grounds for setting aside divine law. Furthermore, it may not be supposed for one moment that God is any more pleased with the sexual aberrations associated with Sodom in our own day than He was then. In fact, many discerning observers of the current resurgence of this wickedness have pointed out that the usually fatal disease called AIDS could be, and likely is, a divine visitation visible this very day as a deterrent to such sins. Two distinguished members of the medical profession in Dallas, Texas - Dr. Paul Cameron and Dr. Clem Muller - stated that:

"The citizenship of this country must do everything in its power to smash the homosexual movement in this country and to make sure these kinds of acts are criminalized. It is not merely a moral issue, but a grave public health issue.[12] Gregg Dixon, pastor of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, and national secretary of the Moral Majority commented thus: "Modern science has now confirmed that the God of the O.T. was not a dirty Bully when he called for the extermination of entire nations who were infected with venereal disease. We know now that He is a loving God who is watching over His creation so that man might not destroy himself."[13]

The fact of Sodom's destruction having been made a type of the final Judgment would appear to suggest that the proliferation and acceptance of the sins of Sodom will again reach a climax before the coming of that great and dreadful Day. God help men to heed the warning!