“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.”
The men of Sodom push Lot aside and threaten to treat him worse than the guests if he does not move back. The mob turns on the host: the man who has tried to protect his guests is now himself a target. The logic is the logic of mob power — any opposition to the demand becomes itself an offense. Lot came out to reason; he is about to be overwhelmed. The angels intervene before he is. The progression — from demand, to resistance, to escalation against the resister — is the pattern of how unchecked mob wickedness operates. Proverbs 4:16 observes that the wicked cannot sleep until they do evil and are robbed of rest until someone falls. The application: the city that turns on the man who advocates for decency has reached the stage where only intervention from outside can change the trajectory.
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