“But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.”
The angels reach out, pull Lot inside the house, shut the door, and strike the men outside with blindness so they cannot find the door. The divine intervention is decisive and immediate: Lot is protected, the mob is disabled. The blindness is not permanent punishment but temporary incapacitation — the men grope for the door but cannot find it. 2 Kings 6:18 records Elisha praying for the Aramean army to be struck with blindness — the same divine tool used for protective purposes. The application: God's protection of the vulnerable and the righteous is sometimes expressed not through the elimination of the threat but through the disabling of the threat's capacity to harm. The mob is still there; it simply cannot find the door. The protection is specific and sufficient.
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