Q. Who saw Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt? It couldn't have been anyone in the city as they were destroyed. It couldn't have been her family as they were running ahead of her. A. Sometimes we simply have to take God at his word. A similar question would be: Who saw God create the animals and Adam? Also, we have no record of anyone having seen Jonah swallowed by the fish, or of his having been vomited out onto dry land. But regarding your question, it is entirely possible Lot may have seen the demise of his wife. It is natural for the person in the lead to glance back to insure the rest were following him. But the verb "look" in Genesis 19:17, and again in verse 26, didn't refer to a quick glance, but to gaze or look intently at. "So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking. "When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city." And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed." "The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. "But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." (Genesis 19:14-17, 23-26, NKJV)
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