Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned several times in the New Testament.
When Jesus sends out the Twelve, he says that if a town doesn’t welcome you, then don’t worry and move on. Later in the next chapter, He says that if these miracles were performed in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented.
Matthew 10 v 14-15 & 11 v 23-24
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Here Jesus compares the judgement of Sodom, and the judgement of a city or culture, which experiences a fuller revelation of God, but then rejects Him.
In Peter’s second epistle, he uses Sodom and Gomorrah as an example. Even though a Christian might live amongst a sinful culture, God will save them and bring judgement to the ungodly. He will not include them when the destruction comes.
2 Peter 2 v 6
If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
This sentiment is repeated in the Book of Jude.
Revelation 11 v 7-8
Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.
Here the Apostle John is figuratively comparing Sodom to Jerusalem. This is an incredible statement for a Jew to make.
In the text, the Beast from the Abyss kills the Two Witnesses, because of their testimony. Their bodies are left in the public square. This compares to the desire of the Two Angels who wanted to stay in the city square in Sodom, but Lot persuaded to come to his house.
In the New Testament, Sodom still carried the meaning of a place of great sin.
Back To The Story
After the angels blinded the men trying to break into Lot’s house, they told him to get every member of his family together.
Lot tells his son-in-laws, who were betrothed to his two daughters. When he explained how Sodom was going to be destroyed, they thought he was joking.
At dawn, the angels grabbed them and led them from the city. They told them to run and don’t look back. But Lot says ‘we can’t make it to the mountains. We will be overtaken by the disaster’.
Lot asks whether he could just run to Zoar. This was one of the Cities of the Plain. The angels agree and as the Sun began to rise, fire and brimstone fell from the sky and destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah and the two other cities. Only Zoar survived.
As the disaster happened, Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a ‘pillar of salt’.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Tower of Adam to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.