Verse 29
"And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt."
"When he overthrew ..." The word "overthrew" is strongly suggestive of earthquake and volcanic activity, indicating God's use of violent natural forces in the disaster that he brought upon the wicked city.
"God remembered Abraham ..." Abraham's prayers had not been in vain, for they issued in Lot's being spared.
Not merely the destruction of the wicked, but the protection and salvation of the righteous, is dramatically visible in this event, as was also the case in the judgmental destruction of Jerusalem near the beginning of the Gospel Age, both events pointing squarely to the great promise that God will also protect and redeem the righteous through that final holocaust that shall conclude the era of human probation.
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