As in the days of lot
Part 17 of the Two Witnesses Series
There is a Biblical principal concerning the wilderness and the cities. This goes all the way back to Abraham and Lot. Abram remained in the wilderness, but Lot went to the cities.
Gen 13:12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.
We all know what happened. God rained fire and brimstone down on all the cities of the valley. That was a foreshadow of the Day of the Lord.
Luke 17:28 It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
The serpent’s stronghold, in the last days, is all the cities of the nations. It is the great city. The same city that the bodies of the two witnesses lay in for three and half days. It is spiritual Babylon. At the end of the Day of the Lord, the great city is remembered before God.
Rev 16:19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
The Day of the Lord will be just like in the days of Lot. Sodom, and all the cities of the valley were destroyed by fire. Just as Lot fled Sodom, so the woman, the church, will flee the cities into the wilderness. The serpent will pour out a flood after the woman, but it will fail.
The warning here in Luke is to remember Lot’s wife. She looked back. Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it and whoever loses his life will preserve it. The overcomers have already been counted as worthy during the birth pangs of the church. Now it is the rest of the church’s turn. Now it is Laodicea’s turn. Everyone will be given the opportunity to “not love their own life even unto death.” Don’t look back!