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You've never seen anything like 
this before, because there are 

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two possible locations for the 
real Sodom and Gomorrah, and 

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we're going to investigate all 
of the evidence. 

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Starting with Numera by the Salt
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In 1924, archaeologist Dr. 
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the southeastern tip of the Salt
Sea, the landscape was 

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completely desolate, almost as 
if something terrible had 

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happened. 
Upon further inspection, he came

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to the conclusion that this was 
the low of the real Sodom and 

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Gomorrah and that the rising sea
levels had actually covered the 

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city ruins. 75 years later, a 
man called Ron Wyatt continued 

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this research and to his 
amazement, he found that these 

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sulfur balls were everywhere. 
How do we know that they're made

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of sulfur? 
Well, Ron actually had the balls

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taken back to a laboratory in 
Knoxville and there they were 

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tested and they came back as 
95.72% sulfur. 

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Now, before you see what happens
when we like one of these little

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guys, it's really important to 
remember that if you today 

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visited Numera, you would find 
these sulfur balls everywhere. 

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In fact, archaeologist Joel 
Kramer recently conducted a 

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similar experiment, and so did 
the Christian YouTuber Timo 

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Shelley. 
So watch what happens when these

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three men perform the same test 
and put a flame to these little 

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chunks of brimstone. 
By the way, did you know if you 

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look up the word brimstone in 
your dictionary somewhere in and

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that definition will also be the
word sulfur? 

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But here's the crazy part. 
These pale sulfur balls have 

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found nowhere else in the world 
except in New Mira. 

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And could the reason for this be
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event when God's wrath well on 
the people of Sodom and 

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Gomorrah? 
But before I give you my opinion

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on this, before I show you 
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you need to see this evidence 
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Apart from the millions of 
sulphur balls that are preserved

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between layers of sediment, this
entire area put simply appears 

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to be burnt. 
There are blackened rocks 

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everywhere. 
Here you can also see this chalk

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like material which is not found
anywhere else in Israel. 

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And beneath this ash, Ron claims
to have found gold dust that was

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vaporized by very hot 
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But check this out. 
These swirling patterns are 

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thought to be caused by thermal 
ionization. 

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If you ever see a building which
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temperatures, we're talking 5000
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You'll also see the same design 
because effectively atoms are 

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being energetically charged by 
these extreme temperatures to 

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create this chemical reaction. 
OK, let's ask the obvious 

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question here. 
Isn't there another logical 

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conclusion for all of this 
evidence? 

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After all, sulphur, burnt ash, 
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could be found next to a 
volcano, can't they? 

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You're right. 
But the problem with that line 

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of thinking is that no volcanic 
activity has ever been reported 

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in this region. 
But the biblical story of 

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Abraham and Lott in Sodom and 
Gomorrah has been believed by 

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religions and cultures for 
thousands of years, and even 

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unbelievers are struggling to 
find another rational 

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explanation for this singed 
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In 1980, Walter Rast, a totally 
secular archaeologist with no 

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religious bias, he was working 
for the University of Indiana 

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and he performed many 
excavations on this site. 

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And after looking at all the 
evidence, he even he stated that

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the only possible conclusion 
really could be the biblical 

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accounts recorded in Genesis. 
Later I'm gonna tell you whether

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I think this is the real Sodom 
and Gomorrah and I also want to 

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draw your attention to this very
interesting landmark and I want 

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you to see if you can guess 
which famous Bible character the

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locals claim it is. 
But can we just stay in Numera 

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for one more moment? 
Because I want to show you why 

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Ron Wyatt and others believe 
this is where God's judgement 

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fell on a rebellious people. 
They believe that the 

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arrangements of the topography 
isn't natural but rather hides 

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clues to a previous 
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For instance, the rock 
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angles, angular in shape as if 
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Ron also believed that this was 
once an ancient sphinx and this 

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structure here could have been 
one of those mysterious 

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cigarettes that we read about in
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The whole area, according to 
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It was once crushed by God's 
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divided whether this 
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been a pyramid. 
So come on now talk to me. 

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Do you think what I've just 
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convince you that the this is 
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Well, some people would argue 
that the next viewpoint, the 

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next alternate location, the 
evidence for that is even 

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stronger. 
In 2001, Doctor Steve Collins 

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created a real stir in the 
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He claimed that Sodom and 
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rather Intel El Haman in the 
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now driven by conviction, began 
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beneath the ground he discovered
an ancient civilization that was

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suddenly wiped out. 
So what he did is he mapped out 

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the lowest part of the upper 
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by 2 meter probe into the ground
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Once he got beneath the Iron 
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and there he found the most 
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It was a storage jar, but it was
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Why is this so confusing? 
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invented around 1000 AD, years 
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Sodom. 
So Doctor Steve Collins thought,

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brilliant. 
That means that my entire 

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archaeological dig has been 
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But when one of his friends saw 
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This wasn't a man made glazing. 
No, this was trinitite. 

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Now, if you're also a little bit
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panic because Doctor Steve had 
neither heard of this word, 

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Trinitite explained. 
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crystallized with a glass like 
layer when they are suddenly 

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heated to over 4000 degrees. 
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expect if an asteroid blasted in
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sure enough, his friend was 
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The pottery was tested in a lab 
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from the Bronze Age, and also it
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hit by a huge heat blast. 
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Doctor Steve Collins had become 
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he had attracted the attention 
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the 400 square kilometres around
Tel Herman had been wiped out in

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the blink of an eye by an 
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Before I tell you my thoughts on
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Gomorrah, it's critical that we 
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Doctor Steve Collins evidence 
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been digging this area for 
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Over the years, Steve discovered
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salinity, he found many melted 
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high concentration of salt. 
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thousands of Bronze Age pottery 
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And check this out. 
This is a the saddle Kern. 

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It was used to grind grain and 
unbelievably, they actually 

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found pieces of burnt grain next
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So what did they do? 
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They put it under a carbon 14 
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staggering. 
This burnt grain dated all the 

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way back to 1700 BC -50, exactly
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period. 
Even the Swale on the other side

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of the hill provided fascinating
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There Steve and his team found 
broken bricks that had not 

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decomposed slowly overtime, but 
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one unexpected blast. 
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direction that the roofs and the
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the city above. 
I wonder what goes to your mind 

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as you see and hear all of this.
Here we have the exact time of 

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the biblical account and 
according to Doctor Steve 

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Collins we have the exact 
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And throughout the Bible, the 
story of Lot and Sodom and 

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Gomorrah is constantly 
referenced and not just in the 

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Bible. 
Outside of other religions, in 

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other texts this same story is 
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Why could it be that all of this
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that this event really did 
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Hey, whilst you figure out which
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location for Sodom and Gomorrah,
I've got to show you this. 

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So have you guessed which Bible 
character people believe this 

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is? 
You've got it. 

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Hole in one. 
They claim this is lots wife. 

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I'm going to choose my words 
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personally I believe this is 
more likely to be a tourist 

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attraction rather than the 
actual lot's wife. 

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However, I might be wrong and it
is 15 miles away from the 

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numerous sites. 
But the problem is it's 9 feet 

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tall and we know from preserved 
clothes that we can see in most 

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museums that people were 
generally much shorter back in 

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history. 
But whether it is or not, it 

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does remind people of the story 
and it sends out a powerful 

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message to the world. 
One word compromise. 

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Four times we see Lot and his 
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has spoken. 
The first time is when the 

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angels warn the family and say 
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This city is coming under God's 
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And what does Lot's son in laws 
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They laugh. 
They treat it as if it's one big

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joke. 
Old friends, how often do men 

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and women mock and ignore God's 
messengers who stand out in the 

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streets and cry out at the top 
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God's judgment is coming upon 
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How often do they laugh at 
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Laugh at our YouTube channels? 
Right Mean comments? 

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And they all treat the judgement
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The 2nd compromise we see is 
instead of Lot heeding the voice

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of these angels, instead of Lot 
fearing the Lord God and seeing 

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the severity of this situation, 
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He lingered. 
Oh, my dear friends, some of you

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have lingered for far too long. 
Some of you have lingered for 

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far too long in the pleasures of
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You love the parties, You love 
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You love the bars. 
You love all of the trappings 

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that this world can offer you. 
And God is telling you to flee 

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for safety in the arms of the 
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But some of you are not seeing 
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Some of you are not seeing that 
just round the corner God is 

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going to consume this world and 
pour out His wrath in a blink of

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an eye. 
The third time we see compromise

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is when, just as we've heard, 
Lot was told to run to the 

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mountains. 
In other words, you need to get 

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as far away from this place as 
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But Lot thought that he knew 
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said, see, now this city is near
enough to flee to and it is a 

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little one. 
Please let me escape. 

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There is it not a little one. 
And my soul shall live. 

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I hear you say. 
I would never be as foolish as 

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lots. 
I would run 1,000,000 miles away

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from Sodom and Gomorrah. 
There's no way I'd choose a 

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little town nearby to live in no
way. 

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And yet many of you, you play 
games with God every single day.

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You say the same type of thing. 
It's only a little bit of 

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blasphemy in that movie. 
It doesn't affect the whole. 

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It's just a tiny little 
blasphemy. 

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It's okay. 
God doesn't mind me watching it.

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It's only a little white lie. 
Doesn't hurt anyone. 

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In fact, it's easier for me to 
tell that than to tell the 

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truth. 
Oh, it's only a little look at 

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that woman at the beach. 
Doesn't hurt anyone. 

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No one saw it. 
Just a little look. 

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It's only a little rude joke 
here and there, you know? 

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Come on, we need to have a laugh
every now and then as 

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Christians. 
It's just a little bit. 

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And what you forget when you 
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you're forgetting that when 
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he didn't die for a little piece
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He died for the whole thing. 
That you might lay down your 

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life in sacrifice, on the altar,
on the throne of God, and you 

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might live in total obedience to
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The 4th Compromise is what we've
just been thinking about. 

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The angels specifically said 
that no one should look behind 

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them. 
If they did, they'd be ruined 

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instantly and lost wife. 
Although she left with Lot in 

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the family, she realized that 
she'd left something back in 

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Sodom. 
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Her heart. 
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she'd been delivered from Sodom,
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Sodom, if that makes sense. 
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She looked behind her in sadness
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dear to her was about to be 
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and the moment she did that, she
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salt. 
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God does not change. 
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very seriously when He commands 
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live, to turn from this world 
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focus on Christ. 
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and look back at this world and 
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the Lord God takes it very 
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But this was the Old Testament. 
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right now in the New Testament 
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Luke 9, verse 62. 
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having put his hand to the plow 
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Kingdom of God. 
Perhaps I'm speaking to you 

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right now. 
At this very moment in your 

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life. 
You've got your eyes on the 

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things of this world. 
You've got your eyes on women, 

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on men, on the praise of man. 
Perhaps on being rich, on being 

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successful. 
The things of God hold very 

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little interest. 
There's very little thought of 

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God and His word in your mind. 
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know something. 
It's still not too late for you.

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At one time I thought like that.
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the things of this world. 
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brought me out of that. 
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down his second fire on this 
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Right now God has not rained 
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There is still an opportunity to
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and to lay hold of faith in Him.
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do right now, do not do the same
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Please, please do not linger but
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The fury and judgment that was 
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was only a drop in the ocean 
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at Calvary. 
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it was only the condemnation of 
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For in Christ on that cross he 
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judgment. 
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existed, every civilization, all
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on Christ Jesus. 
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His wrath on Jesus Christ so 
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Now that's a big word, but it 
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stood in the gap Here. 
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got all, all of our sins that 
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wrath, and it's coming for us. 
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middle, and he absorbs that 
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direction. 
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mirror into the sunlight, it 
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another direction. 
So the Lord Jesus Christ, he 

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absorbed that beam of wrath and 
he turned it, He reflected it 

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into something beautiful, into a
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If you put your trust in the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who died for 

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your sins and rose from the dead
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there's a verse in the Bible 
that we can also know and hold 

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for certainty. 
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Bible, Hosea Chapter 11, it 
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Ephraim? 
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How can I make you like Admah? 
How can I set you like 

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Zaboyahim? 
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My sympathy is stirred. 
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towns, Admah and Zaboyahim, were
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Inside Sodom and Gomorrah. 
And here God is saying to his 

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people, the Jewish people. 
But I do believe if you put your

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faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, 
this is a promise for us as 

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well. 
He's saying that I cannot rain 

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fire and brimstone on you, my 
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Even though you've been 
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been unfaithful to me, even 
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I love you so much. 
I have so much compassion for 

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you. 
And I'm asking whoever's 

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listening right now, can you 
claim onto that promise 

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yourself? 
Do you know that you're hiding 

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in the love of God, the one who 
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Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to 
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Because, mark my words, there is
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The lesson we've just seen shows
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judgement coming, and there is a
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never be found again. 
For those unbelievers who've 

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chosen to reject the Lord Jesus 
Christ, there will come a day 

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when no matter how much you 
search for it, you will never 

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find the love and forgiveness of
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Just like Sodom and Gomorrah was
put down into the dust and it 

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was never rebuilt again, 
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will never be able to rise 
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Mercy will be cut off. 
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for my answer. 
Where do I think the real Sodom 

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and Gomorrah is? 
Well, please, please don't get 

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angry with me. 
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video, before I began it, in 
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Numera when I looked at all of 
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the area? 
There's no other logical 

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explanation, but the more I 
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more I looked at the evidence 
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and the fact that all of these 
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exact time period of lots. 
I was left source of speechless.

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And on this one I know you might
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truly cannot call it and 
remember this. 

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I'm just learning like you. 
And this is probably the bit 

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that's really going to irritate 
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But even if there was no 
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no physical evidence, I'd still 
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Why? 
Because God said it happened. 

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And if God said it happened, 
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After all, the Bible does tell 
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by sight. 
By the way, back in 2019, when I

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first started making these types
of videos, I actually preached a

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message on my favorite chapter 
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If you've never seen that video,
go and check it out now. 

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It might just bless you.