Posted on 05/02/2022 11:59:07 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
(RNS) — What everyone agrees on is that something unusual happened at Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement near the Dead Sea.
In a layer of ancient earth, archaeologists claim to have found evidence of an apocalyptic event: Melted rooftops. Disintegrated pottery. Unusual patterns in the rock formations that can be associated with intense heat. For another three to six centuries after 1650 B.C., the settlement's 100 acres lay fallow.
But when Steven Collins, the principal archaeologist at Tall el-Hammam, considered the scientists' evidence in an article that ran last year in the respected scientific journal Nature, he claimed that the incineration matched with the place and timing of the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah. This brought down on himself what in academic circles might be called hellfire.
That story of Sodom and its sister city Gomorrah is one of the Bible's best-known stories. Abraham bargains with God to spare Sodom — even then synonymous with sin — to save its few righteous residents. The Lord was having none of it. "Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah," the Book of Genesis says. Abraham looks back and sees "dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace..."
(Excerpt) Read more at christiantoday.com ...
Looking at the depravity of modern America, we’re asking for the brimstone.
Once San Francisco behavior becomes the norm across most of America, then we will be close to what Sodom was like. We may be only 5-10 years away from that.
At the present accelerated rate, maybe 2-3.
The Lord, when he Judged a city, it was usually because the whole city was corrupt and living in sin 24/7- He wouldn’t just a city if they had righteous remnant of believers in it- and the city woudl have to be thoroughly corrupt and vile with no hope of redemption because their hearts were hardened- God was long suffering, not wishing ny to perish, but there comes a point where He gives them what they deserve-
A number of cities here in the US are overdue for a "cleansing" along the same lines.
I think 911 was a warning, the crash of 2008 and covid for America to repent. And like Israel did in the old testament we are going on our merry way ignoring God. It’s quite fastening to watch the parallels of America and ancient Israel.
***That story of Sodom and its sister city Gomorrah***
Remember the two other forgotten cities. Admah and Zeboiim. Of the Five Cities of the Plain, only Zoar escaped because Lot went there. Yet they were so depraved Lot left them, but that city was not destroyed.
Uh, no. The rest of the keyword, sorted:
Meanwhile, the godless laugh, scoff and mock.
Just as prophesied.
2 Peter 3:3-12
King James Version
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%203%3A3-12&version=KJV
I do believe that is correct.
And the nation, via false prophets for political leaders, has only gone more godless.
A very bad omen.
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Good point!
The shock isn’t that Barack is a false prophet.
The shock is how many fools are deceived by him; while wearing their Global Citizen t-shirts.
Following his reprobate madness that can only lead into the lake of fire.
SMH
The rest of the Valley of Siddim keyword, sorted, obviously overlaps the other keyword:
Did the archeologists find a pillar of salt nearby?
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The Nature article
Published: 20 September 2021
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
Wait until the day they get a good look at the bottom of the Dead Sea, boy are they going to be surprised at what they find.
Sodom and Gomorrah would have been saved if 10 righteous men could have been found...
Some people will scoff and mock until the day they wish for the rocks to fall on them and cover them up.
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