. Peter draws attention to a final episode in redemptive history: Lot's preservation from Sodom. He then concludes, having described several Old Testament stories, that God is able to both pour out His wrath on evildoers and to preserve people from that wrath. This is supposed to be the basis of his audience's hope in the midst of affliction from false teachers. And it is our hope today that God is sovereign and able to deliver us from affliction.