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"But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt."

What does this mean? I read it last week, and was confused what the insinuation was

>"But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." What does this mean? I read it last week, and was confused what the insinuation was

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It is a correlation to our walk with Jesus. If we have tasted that the Lord is good (only ones to escape from Sodom) and turn back to the world and its pleasures (looking back), we would be better off not knowing Jesus at all. Read Hebrews 10:26-30 for more understanding. God bless.

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Salt represents matter devoid of spirit. Salt of the earth. Salt is used in religious ceremonies and rituals in this sense, to stand for pure matter, the clay of which Adam was fashioned before God breathed life into Adam's nostrils. When Lot's wife turned to salt, it means that everything alive, everything God gave her, was taken away, leaving only her physical body behind, which became salt to symbolize its lifelessness.

By looking back, Lot's wife engaged with the process of purgation going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. She identified with those being cleansed by fire, and was herself cleansed and purged. She disobeyed God, she disobeyed her husband, she emotionally connected with the damned souls of the cities in the plains, and she dared to look upon that which is too holy and powerful for human eyes to endure.

There are really several aspects to what she did:

  • she disobeyed God
  • she connected emotionally with the damned in the cities
  • she saw with her naked eyes the fire of God's wrath

As we know from Raiders of the Lost Ark, it is death to look upon the wrathful fire of God. Lot's wife was punished for her disobedience, her faithlessness, and her audacity.

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The Bible is multilayered, but one simple explanation could be that she disobeyed God's order, given to her by His angels in person, and payed the ultimate price for it.

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Lot's wife got salty and raged against the manager or the place.

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Is that really just it? I always thought it was because she secretly liked Sodom, and then became tormented by its destruction. Similar to how liberals will fight tooth and nail for their own enslavement. It also explains why the kids weren't affected, since they were too young to know what Sodom was known for

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Fight tooth and nail for your own cause and good luck with it.