If the religion is true and accurate, then any obvious question(s) that arise, will not be distracting or leave doubt, unless such religions are obviously flawed. Razing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground is God’s example of how he will treat ungodly and immoral behaviors. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the Lord along with the two other cities nearby so completely that nobody would live there again. Sodom and Gomorrah were rained upon with fire and brimstones.
Lot met the two angels sent by the Lord at the entrance of the gate and greeted them politely. The king of Sodom was named Bera while the king of Gomorrah was Birsha. Sodom and Gomorrah were well-watered places before they were destroyed by the Lord. Sodom and Gomorrah as the borders of Canaan. God’s sparing the lives of Lot and his family is an example of how God cares for the righteous people. But Lot’s wife failed and looked back to the city being destroyed and was turned into a pillar of salt. They left the city the next morning with the caution not to look behind. The angles then told Lot about God’s plan of destroying the city and asked him to leave the city with his family. And when Lot refused, they forcefully barged into his house where they were stopped and blinded by the angels. But moments later, the men of the city demanded that Lot surrender to them the two men he kept inside his house. And so, God sent two angels to Sodom, who met Lot, who gave them food and a place to stay for the night. When Abraham learned about God’s plan of destroying Sodom, Abraham became concerned about the good individuals living inside the city. Only the city of Zoar was spared from God’s wrath that day. The cities were totally destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstones. The cities were inhabited by people so wicked and evil that God could do nothing except to destroy them. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah along with the two other cities of the plain was a picture of God’s rage over sin, particularly vices and indecent sexual behaviors and practices. Once out on earth and sparked, these bitumen deposits would create a huge fire thus making the entire land into a giant oven. A popular theory by Frederick Clapp is the possibility of an earthquake pushing these bitumen deposits out from a fault line. The area south of the Dead Sea has deposits of the substance bitumen, a substance that has a high sulphur component. Cemetery found in Bab edh-Dhra suggested that people inside the buildings were burnt by a fire that started from the roof. Both cities were annihilated at the same time by a great catastrophe. Topping the many speculations, Sodom was believed to be the modern city of Bab edh-Dhra while Numeira could be the ancient location of Gomorrah. The battle was won by the Elamite Kingdom until Abram the uncle of Lot killed the armies of Elam’s king thus freeing the five cities from Elam. Cities of the plain had their own kings and these kings, namely King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela worked together to revolt against the Elamite Kingdom who ruled over them for 13 years. This place was well-watered and green enough to raise animals. The coastline of the Jordan River is now believed to be the Dead Sea. They were situated along the coastline of the Jordan River to the south of Canaan. These five cities were known as the “cities of the plain”. Sodom and Gomorrah were politically allied with three other cities, namely Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela or Zoar. During the 1960s, a huge cemetery with 500,000 bodies, more or less, was excavated. One of the most popular speculated sites of ancient Sodom is the modern day Bab edh-Dhra. Hebron is situated almost in the middle part of the north and south at the west of the Dead Sea. Also, one could see it from Mamre, a land close to Hebron. But for sure, it was around the eastern or south-eastern portion of Jerusalem more particularly in the Dead Sea area.
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