“The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, “Look here! or Look there!” Do not go after them or follow them.
“For as the lightening that flashes out of one part under heaven and shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.
“But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
“They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
“Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
“But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
“Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
“In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
“Remember Lot’s wife.”13
Remember Lot’s wife? What on earth does that have to do with the second coming of Christ and the end of the world? How could an unnamed woman from centuries ago have a bearing on spectacular future events? As bizarre as it may seem, there it is right in the middle of Jesus’ description of life in the waning days of planet earth. A look at Lot’s story way back in the very beginning of the Bible in the book of Genesis is warranted.