“And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:”
The angels explain why: they are about to destroy this place because the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that the LORD has sent them to destroy it. The language of outcry returns from Genesis 18:20 — the same moral complaint that reached God is now the stated reason for the mission. The angels are not acting arbitrarily; they are executing a judgment already announced and already justified. The specificity of the mandate — destroy this place — gives Lot the information he needs to take the rescue mission seriously. The application: when God announces judgment and gives the reason for it, the announcement is both warning and invitation — the same announcement that explains why judgment comes is the announcement that makes escape possible.
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