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Since the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah bothered Lot so much, why didn't he move away before God destroyed the cities?
2 Peter 2:
Lot might have seen himself as setting a good example for the men of Sodom and Gomorrah. He knew what they were doing was wrong, Genesis 19:
2 Peter 2:
Noah was a preacher of righteousness among ungodly people.5 if he [God] did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
If it bothered Lot so much, why didn't he move away?6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard).
Lot might have seen himself as setting a good example for the men of Sodom and Gomorrah. He knew what they were doing was wrong, Genesis 19:
God placed Lot there to set a good example, so they had no excuse. Like Noah, Lot was a righteous witness for God's law among lawless and ungodly people.6 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, 7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly".