Messages (vv. 2-13). God’s message to Abraham was a joyful one: He and Sarah would have the promised son within a year. But the message to Lot was frightening: God was going to destroy Sodom and everything in it! God would have spared the city had the angels found ten believers, but since that was not possible, God mercifully rescued the believers they did find (Gen. 19:16). God’s message to the lost world is that judgment is coming, but His promise to His own people is that He will rescue them (1 Thess. 5:1-11; 2 Peter 2:4-10).