At Gen 19-1-5* was it Only Lot who could see these were Angels & not the Mob?

Question

Royal- they were Blinded " After". I asking this based on the fact that they " knew" Men had come into Lot's house prior to being Blinded.

Answer 1

Yes because they were spiritually blinded because of the way they lived God sent them as men but Lot being a man of God knew who they were.

Hope this Helped   God bless

Answer 2

I read from 19:1 to 32.

At v.14 Lot went to speak to his sons-in-law and daughters;

for they were to Get Up! Get out of this place

because Jehovah is bringing the city to ruin!  

But in the eyes of his sons-in-law

he seemed like a man who was joking.

So, I would say; Yes,

it was only Lot that could  'see'  that these men

were not ordinary men, borne of a woman, but that,

in fact, they were angels of Jehovah the true God.

Answer 3

It would appear also from numerous statements that angels have often been sent out to execute judgments upon the wicked. David sang, "Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them."  (Ps. 35:5,   6)  Angels were sent to destroy Sodom  (Gen. 19:1-25) and to smite the Assyrians  (2 Kgs. 19:35).  The Savior himself said, "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity."  (Matt. 13:41)  

In form angels are like human beings. They do not, of course, have the wings many artists symbolically show (TPJS, p. 162). Concerning the two angels who visited Lot's home in Sodom, the local residents inquired, "Where are the men which came in to thee this night?" (Gen. 19:1, 5, emphasis added). Daniel described the angel Gabriel as having "the appearance of a man" (Dan. 8:15). At the sepulcher of the risen Savior "the angel of the Lord descended from heaven" (Matt. 28:2) as "a young man…clothed in a long white garment" (Mark 16:5).

Answer 4

only he who forgets himself as a person

Answer 5

The Mob was blinded...didn't you read that part?

Answer 6

They looked like men, remember just prior to this Abraham fed them,Even before Moses’ time, Jehovah’s people knew the importance of following the course of hospitality. So outstanding and generous were they in impartial hospitality that 2,000 years later an apostle of Christ referred to them when he commanded Christians: “Do not forget kindness to strangers, for through it some, unknown to themselves, entertained angels.” Just imagine! Because of always being friendly-minded, openhearted and alert to the course of hospitality, some of God’s early servants had the thrillingly grand experience of entertaining angels.—Heb. 13:2, NW.

when Lot was visited by two angels at the time of Sodom’s impending destruction, he extended hospitality to them. But the men of the city surrounded the house and demanded that the visitors be brought out to them for immoral purposes. Lot sought to protect his guests even to the point of offering his two virgin daughters to the mob. Angered, the mob pressed heavily in on Lot, whereupon his angelic visitors brought him indoors and struck the wicked Sodomites with blindness.—Ge 19:1-11.

Answer 7

Job didn't realize that his two visitors were angels until after they revealed their true nature.

Answer 8

the mob just thought they were attractive men...they wanted them for perversion.....Lot offered his daughters because #1 there was a law of hospitality in place #2 they knew they would not want girls but men.