He had the time to sit and watch others work.
He was respected and sat in the city gate - meaning he was practically a member of the city council, and he did not have to work anymore. It was so bad that the Bible says Lot’s soul was “tormented day after day by their lawless deeds” - but he put up with it. It did not take long for Lot to leave his sheep and tent to move to a real house in the city, despite its bad reputation. (Egypt also grows crops using irrigation from the Nile.) Here is what the Bible says that Lot saw when he decided to move there: “Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,” (Gen. So everyone made money and had an easy life. Boats fished and sold their wares up and down the lake and river. What an idyllic setting! Fresh fruit and vegetables of every kind growing practically 365 days a year! And sunshine all the time! And a beautiful fresh lake to swim in! The towns were situated so that trade routes had to pass through them because of the lake.
They irrigated their crops from the large lake around them, which was fed by the pure waters of the River Jordan. This is exactly the situation of Sodom and Gomorrah. My friends have contracts with McDonald’s to provide them with perfect potatoes, which they do, right on time, every year. Buyers are thrilled with this reliability and sign big money contracts with farmers who use irrigation. But irrigated farms in desert areas have harvests right on time because the weather does not interfere. Most farmers must depend on the weather for rain, which is unreliable. Because of the irrigation, they can water the plants exactly as needed - never too much, never too little, and always right on time. Sodom and Gomorrah remind me of friends who farm irrigated land in Washington State. GEOLOGY AND THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
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