Rather than write a lot of stuff, I want to link to this sermon by Leonard Ravenhill. It is well worth the hour or so it takes to listen to it. Please take the time to do so.
In a chapter full of shocking events, the most shocking thing to me is just how thoroughly the sin of Sodom had saturated Lot's family. His sons-in-law were among the would-be rapists; his daughters saw incest as a valid course of action; his wife loved the city so much that it cost her her life.
Lot himself -- though called "righteous" in 2Peter 2.7 -- stooped so low as to offer his daughters as rape victims rather than the angels who had come to rescue him, and as the city was being destroyed actually argued with the angels about his destination.
Sin is pervasive, sin is insidious, and sin is powerful. And the closer you get to it, the deeper it gets into you.
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