"Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." The angels are urgent. Lot lingers. He has to be grabbed by the hand and dragged out—he, his wife, his daughters. "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley." Lot negotiates to flee to Zoar instead of the hills. Even in rescue, he's bargaining. The sun rises. Fire and sulfur rain from heaven. Sodom and Gomorrah are overthrown. Lot escaped, but barely. Sometimes God saves people who don't even want to be saved. He drags them out by the hand while they're still lingering.

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