The Lesson Of Sodom

The destruction of Sodom by the LORD:

"^19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom [see Sodomites] and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; ^19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ^19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ^19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: ^19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. ^19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt." (Genesis 19:24-29 KJV)

The Lesson Of Sodom

In the New Testament, the destruction of Sodom is equated with the destruction of the entire wicked world at the time of Noah and as a prophecy of the LORD's wrath that is coming at the time of His return upon all of those who do Violence (which means violation) to His Law:

"^17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ^17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

^17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ^17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

^17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." (Luke 17:26-30 KJV)

The apostle Peter also spoke of the similarities of the Flood and the destruction of Sodom - and the end-time fire that will consume all evil:

"^2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ^2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly [see They Shall Be Ashes]; ^2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: ^2:8 For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds; ^2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: ^2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." (2 Peter 2:5-10 KJV)

Jude also makes the connection:

"^1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ^1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. ^1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. ^1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ^1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." (Jude 1:4-8 KJV)

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