Country Living

Lessons From Enoch and Lot

As God's commandment-keeping people, we must leave the cities. As did Enoch, we must work in the cities but not dwell in them.—Evangelism, 78, 79 (1899). CL 30.4

When iniquity abounds in a nation, there is always to be heard some voice giving warning and instruction, as the voice of Lot was heard in Sodom. Yet Lot could have preserved his family from many evils, had he not made his home in this wicked, polluted city. All that Lot and his family did in Sodom could have been done by them, even if they had lived in a place some distance away from the city. Enoch walked with God, and yet he did not live in the midst of any city, polluted with every kind of violence and wickedness, as did Lot in Sodom.—Evangelism, 79 (1903). CL 30.5