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Genesis 19:17 (KJV) And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, ESCAPE for thy life; LOOK NOT BEHIND thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; ESCAPE to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.LOOK NOT: When God says to ESCAPE from your sin but you desire to ‘Look Back’, then you’ve never repented. God’s desire for Lot and his family was to ESCAPE, which has a different meaning from ‘leaving’. The city of Sodom held their souls as prisoners. Lot and his family became comfortable with all the sin that was around them. Whenever you become comfortable with sin, you are a prisoner in need of rescue. They were to ESCAPE the sinfulness that surrounds them but Lot’s wife just had to ‘turn and look’ instead of just escaping. Many, will desire to leave some sin but they won’t ESCAPE IT. Since they only left a sin, it’s temporary, and they will LOOK BACK with a heart to return to that place that satisfied their fleshly desires. Looking Back brings nothing but shame and death and then your sin of looking back becomes a permanent monument of what was always in your heart.