When we’re suffering temptation, often the worst part of it is the feeling that the Lord has abandoned us – that just when we need Him most, he’s not there. The fact is, of course, that He is there; that feeling is part of the necessary process if we are to truly trust Him and let him take our evils from us.

That feeling is illustrated in this verse, when the angels – who represent the Lord’s human aspect and his active effect – initially turn down Lot’s invitation.

The story here is about the Lord judging the remnants of the Ancient Church, which had fallen into falsity and love of self. Lot represents the people within that church who still had a desire to be good; they recognized that judgment was near and ask the Lord to be with them. But their cry seems to go unheard; when the angels say they will sleep in the square, it represents the idea that the Lord is willing to judge the people based solely on factual evidence, which would have condemned them.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2328)

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Perhaps you've heard the saying, "You can never go home again." Recently I had the experience of trying to go back in time as it were, and likewise found I just couldn't go back. In the Bible there are a number of places where we're told we can't or shouldn't go back to old places... what's the meaning of these stories? Can we really not go back?

(Odkazy: Deuteronomy 17:14-17, 28:64-68; Genesis 19:15-26; Luke 9:62)