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to go there. He had to quit Zoar again because of the prevailing wickedness in the place but not without a blemish. His credit points dipped seriously when these same chaste daughters of his got him drunk with wine in order to have a chance to rape him to get offspring through him. What had suddenly gone wrong? One guess is that his darling girls must have been influenced by the life at Zoar; another one is that they were already polluted while they were still in Sodom but had no opportunity to show it because of Lot's firm grip. When they got to the cave that finally became their abode, the girls feared that their generation would become extinct since there were no men to marry them and put them in the family way. So they committed incest because they couldn't see a way out of their desperate need.

What is certain is that when desperate situations come upon a person, convictions that are not deep-rooted in the heart floats and evaporate with heat of the moment. The superstructure of determination cannot stand when foundations of convictions collapse.

Ruth got convinced and left the evil-filled Moab

Ages later, Ruth a Moabitess and progeny of one of the daughters of Lot and therefore an offspring of incest, married Chilion son of Naomi and Elimelech who were Bethlehemites. This couple must have inculcated Godly values into their children's upbringing. Ruth was influenced by these good values because she naturally was a compassionate person and she made up her mind to live with the values. With her strong determination, even the risk of never having another man to marry her after her husband died did not deter her. She also knew fully that she might be saddled with the care of another old widow for life but that was just like ice under the heat of passion she had for the God of Israel. Her pagan background gave way to her acquired convictions and determination to live a new life.

Three Hebrew men determined to please God in Pagan Land

The story was also told of the three Hebrew young men who were civil servants in Babylon during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. They were Judaists who had the following laws of God etched on the tablets of their hearts: You shall have no other gods before me You shall not make for yourself a carved image and You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. (Ex 20: 1-3) Now it pleased the king, at the instance of his advisers to erect a golden image and to decree a national worship for thirty days with a penalty

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