Thinking of ‘an abundant entrance’ (2 Peter 1:11), is Noah an example of one such Christian who has this kind of entrance, and Lot the opposite?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘An Abundant Entrance into the Eternal Kingdom’ (1985).

I think I know what the question means. Noah was an exemplary man who was pleasing to God, he was 'blameless in his generation' (Genesis 6:9). Can you say that, because he had lived an honourable life, in the eternity to come he will have an abundant entrance; but Lot (righteous man though he is declared to be) fell into unfortunate, sad and sorry ways of living towards the end of his life and, therefore, though he is a righteous man who will enter the eternal kingdom, he may not necessarily have an abundant entrance?

I would think that they are two reasonable examples of the kind of thing that Peter is talking about, though we do remember that dear old Noah came a bit unstuck at the end.

You could, if you like, contrast Abraham with Lot. To Abraham there were promises given, and he and Lot set forth on the same pilgrimage, 'looking for the city that has the foundations' (see Hebrews 11:10). Abraham was promised the land and inheritance (seed) and that he would become a blessing. And, eventually, through his trust in God, seed was given to him, and Isaac was born to perpetuate his family and to enjoy the consequent inheritance. Lot chose to go where business dictated, apparently for that reason only, without due consideration of the wickedness of the cities to which, for the sake of business, he was taking his family. It would appear that his testimony in the city amounted to very little in the end. His daughters married men who perished. His wife lost her life looking back longingly to Sodom, even when the flames of God's judgment were upon it. Lot escaped to his cave and, in a desperate attempt now to keep his family going, his daughters resorted to methods that had better be left undescribed. It was a sorry exhibition of the flesh, if ever there was one. Moab was his son and simultaneously his grandson. One cannot help thinking that Lot forms an example of what Scripture talks about, of people who, because they are saved, will never be lost but who could find at last that their works are burned up. They suffer loss, though they themselves are saved, yet so as by fire (see 1 Corinthians 3:15).