It’s interesting to see that there are significant parallels between the story of Noah and the flood and the story of Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Here are some comparisons:

1. In Noah’s day, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and…every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5). In Lot’s day, the “outcry against [Sodom's] people [had] become great before the LORD” (Gen. 19:13) and there were apparently not even ten righteous people in the city (Gen. 18:32).

2. Noah “found favor in the eyes of the LORD” (Gen. 6:8). Lot tells the two angels of the Lord, “Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight” (Gen. 19:19).

3. Noah is saved from destruction along with his wife, his sons, and his sons’ wives (Gen. 7:7). Lot is saved from destruction along with his wife (until she is turned into a pillar of salt) and his two daughters (Gen. 19:15-16).

4. God promises to Noah that in seven days “I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground” (Gen. 7:4). When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, the text says that “the LORD rained [same word as Gen. 7:4] on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground” (Gen. 19:24-25).

5. In Noah’s time, God destroyed the earth by water. In Lot’s time, God destroyed the cities by fire.

6. Jesus couples the story of Noah and the flood with the story of Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah when he explains to his disciples what the days of the Son of Man will be like (Luke 17:26-30).

7. Peter also links the two stories to show that “the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment” (2 Pet. 2:9).

It appears, then, that Lot is a lot like Noah.