You've never seen anything like this before, because there are
two possible locations for the real Sodom and Gomorrah, and
we're going to investigate all of the evidence.
Starting with Numera by the Salt Sea.
In 1924, archaeologist Dr. Albright discovered just near
the southeastern tip of the Salt Sea, the landscape was
completely desolate, almost as if something terrible had
happened. Upon further inspection, he came
to the conclusion that this was the low of the real Sodom and
Gomorrah and that the rising sea levels had actually covered the
city ruins. 75 years later, a man called Ron Wyatt continued
this research and to his amazement, he found that these
sulfur balls were everywhere. How do we know that they're made
of sulfur? Well, Ron actually had the balls
taken back to a laboratory in Knoxville and there they were
tested and they came back as 95.72% sulfur.
Now, before you see what happens when we like one of these little
guys, it's really important to remember that if you today
visited Numera, you would find these sulfur balls everywhere.
In fact, archaeologist Joel Kramer recently conducted a
similar experiment, and so did the Christian YouTuber Timo
Shelley. So watch what happens when these
three men perform the same test and put a flame to these little
chunks of brimstone. By the way, did you know if you
look up the word brimstone in your dictionary somewhere in and
that definition will also be the word sulfur?
But here's the crazy part. These pale sulfur balls have
found nowhere else in the world except in New Mira.
And could the reason for this be because it was only a one time
event when God's wrath well on the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah? But before I give you my opinion
on this, before I show you something totally mind blowing,
you need to see this evidence first.
Apart from the millions of sulphur balls that are preserved
between layers of sediment, this entire area put simply appears
to be burnt. There are blackened rocks
everywhere. Here you can also see this chalk
like material which is not found anywhere else in Israel.
And beneath this ash, Ron claims to have found gold dust that was
vaporized by very hot temperatures.
But check this out. These swirling patterns are
thought to be caused by thermal ionization.
If you ever see a building which has been based under extreme
temperatures, we're talking 5000 degrees Celsius.
You'll also see the same design because effectively atoms are
being energetically charged by these extreme temperatures to
create this chemical reaction. OK, let's ask the obvious
question here. Isn't there another logical
conclusion for all of this evidence?
After all, sulphur, burnt ash, and all of these things, they
could be found next to a volcano, can't they?
You're right. But the problem with that line
of thinking is that no volcanic activity has ever been reported
in this region. But the biblical story of
Abraham and Lott in Sodom and Gomorrah has been believed by
religions and cultures for thousands of years, and even
unbelievers are struggling to find another rational
explanation for this singed wilderness.
In 1980, Walter Rast, a totally secular archaeologist with no
religious bias, he was working for the University of Indiana
and he performed many excavations on this site.
And after looking at all the evidence, he even he stated that
the only possible conclusion really could be the biblical
accounts recorded in Genesis. Later I'm gonna tell you whether
I think this is the real Sodom and Gomorrah and I also want to
draw your attention to this very interesting landmark and I want
you to see if you can guess which famous Bible character the
locals claim it is. But can we just stay in Numera
for one more moment? Because I want to show you why
Ron Wyatt and others believe this is where God's judgement
fell on a rebellious people. They believe that the
arrangements of the topography isn't natural but rather hides
clues to a previous civilization.
For instance, the rock formations are at 90 degree
angles, angular in shape as if they were once buildings.
Ron also believed that this was once an ancient sphinx and this
structure here could have been one of those mysterious
cigarettes that we read about in history.
The whole area, according to Ron, screams out.
It was once crushed by God's anger and some people are even
divided whether this configuration could have once
been a pyramid. So come on now talk to me.
Do you think what I've just shown you is enough evidence to
convince you that the this is the real Sodom and Gomorrah?
Well, some people would argue that the next viewpoint, the
next alternate location, the evidence for that is even
stronger. In 2001, Doctor Steve Collins
created a real stir in the archaeological world.
He claimed that Sodom and Gomorrah was not in Numera, but
rather Intel El Haman in the Jordan Valley to Steve Collins,
now driven by conviction, began an excavation on the site and
beneath the ground he discovered an ancient civilization that was
suddenly wiped out. So what he did is he mapped out
the lowest part of the upper city and there he descended A2
by 2 meter probe into the ground to test how deep the site was.
Once he got beneath the Iron Age, he reached the Bronze Age
and there he found the most perplexing artifact.
It was a storage jar, but it was a glazed storage jar.
Why is this so confusing? Because glazing was only
invented around 1000 AD, years after the biblical account of
Sodom. So Doctor Steve Collins thought,
brilliant. That means that my entire
archaeological dig has been messed up by newer artifacts.
But when one of his friends saw it, he recognized it instantly.
This wasn't a man made glazing. No, this was trinitite.
Now, if you're also a little bit confused by that word, don't
panic because Doctor Steve had neither heard of this word,
Trinitite explained. Trinitite is where objects get
crystallized with a glass like layer when they are suddenly
heated to over 4000 degrees. It's the kind of thing you'd
expect if an asteroid blasted in the middle of the desert, and
sure enough, his friend was right.
The pottery was tested in a lab and it came back that it was
from the Bronze Age, and also it showed signs that it had been
hit by a huge heat blast. So it was official.
Doctor Steve Collins had become a rock star, pun intended, and
he had attracted the attention of 21 scholars who also believed
the 400 square kilometres around Tel Herman had been wiped out in
the blink of an eye by an asteroid or something huge.
Before I tell you my thoughts on the location of Sodom and
Gomorrah, it's critical that we do not overlook the rest of
Doctor Steve Collins evidence because he has quite literally
been digging this area for almost 2 decades now.
Over the years, Steve discovered the ground is very high in
salinity, he found many melted materials and there was also a
high concentration of salt. He and his team discovered
thousands of Bronze Age pottery in the site.
And check this out. This is a the saddle Kern.
It was used to grind grain and unbelievably, they actually
found pieces of burnt grain next to it.
So what did they do? They had it tested.
They put it under a carbon 14 test and the results were
staggering. This burnt grain dated all the
way back to 1700 BC -50, exactly the time frame of the Abrahamic
period. Even the Swale on the other side
of the hill provided fascinating evidence.
There Steve and his team found broken bricks that had not
decomposed slowly overtime, but had literally been blown off in
one unexpected blast. And this matched the same
direction that the roofs and the buildings that had shattered in
the city above. I wonder what goes to your mind
as you see and hear all of this. Here we have the exact time of
the biblical account and according to Doctor Steve
Collins we have the exact location.
And throughout the Bible, the story of Lot and Sodom and
Gomorrah is constantly referenced and not just in the
Bible. Outside of other religions, in
other texts this same story is mentioned often.
Why could it be that all of this evidence points towards the fact
that this event really did happen?
Hey, whilst you figure out which you think is the most credible
location for Sodom and Gomorrah, I've got to show you this.
So have you guessed which Bible character people believe this
is? You've got it.
Hole in one. They claim this is lots wife.
I'm going to choose my words very carefully now, but
personally I believe this is more likely to be a tourist
attraction rather than the actual lot's wife.
However, I might be wrong and it is 15 miles away from the
numerous sites. But the problem is it's 9 feet
tall and we know from preserved clothes that we can see in most
museums that people were generally much shorter back in
history. But whether it is or not, it
does remind people of the story and it sends out a powerful
message to the world. One word compromise.
Four times we see Lot and his family compromise on what God
has spoken. The first time is when the
angels warn the family and say you need to get out.
This city is coming under God's judgment.
And what does Lot's son in laws do?
They laugh. They treat it as if it's one big
joke. Old friends, how often do men
and women mock and ignore God's messengers who stand out in the
streets and cry out at the top of their voices?
God's judgment is coming upon the disobedience.
How often do they laugh at preachers in pulpits?
Laugh at our YouTube channels? Right Mean comments?
And they all treat the judgement of God as one big joke.
The 2nd compromise we see is instead of Lot heeding the voice
of these angels, instead of Lot fearing the Lord God and seeing
the severity of this situation, what did Lot do?
He lingered. Oh, my dear friends, some of you
have lingered for far too long. Some of you have lingered for
far too long in the pleasures of this life.
You love the parties, You love the nightclubs.
You love the bars. You love all of the trappings
that this world can offer you. And God is telling you to flee
for safety in the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But some of you are not seeing the seriousness, this situation.
Some of you are not seeing that just round the corner God is
going to consume this world and pour out His wrath in a blink of
an eye. The third time we see compromise
is when, just as we've heard, Lot was told to run to the
mountains. In other words, you need to get
as far away from this place as possible.
But Lot thought that he knew better and he answered back and
said, see, now this city is near enough to flee to and it is a
little one. Please let me escape.
There is it not a little one. And my soul shall live.
I hear you say. I would never be as foolish as
lots. I would run 1,000,000 miles away
from Sodom and Gomorrah. There's no way I'd choose a
little town nearby to live in no way.
And yet many of you, you play games with God every single day.
You say the same type of thing. It's only a little bit of
blasphemy in that movie. It doesn't affect the whole.
It's just a tiny little blasphemy.
It's okay. God doesn't mind me watching it.
It's only a little white lie. Doesn't hurt anyone.
In fact, it's easier for me to tell that than to tell the
truth. Oh, it's only a little look at
that woman at the beach. Doesn't hurt anyone.
No one saw it. Just a little look.
It's only a little rude joke here and there, you know?
Come on, we need to have a laugh every now and then as
Christians. It's just a little bit.
And what you forget when you keep doing that day after day,
you're forgetting that when Jesus Christ died on that cross,
he didn't die for a little piece of you.
He died for the whole thing. That you might lay down your
life in sacrifice, on the altar, on the throne of God, and you
might live in total obedience to him.
The 4th Compromise is what we've just been thinking about.
The angels specifically said that no one should look behind
them. If they did, they'd be ruined
instantly and lost wife. Although she left with Lot in
the family, she realized that she'd left something back in
Sodom. What had she left?
Her heart. And so this woman, even though
she'd been delivered from Sodom, she hadn't been delivered from
Sodom, if that makes sense. And So what did she do?
She looked behind her in sadness to know this place that was so
dear to her was about to be consumed by fire and brimstone,
and the moment she did that, she was taken up into a pillar of
salt. Listen to me.
God does not change. And even today, God takes it
very seriously when He commands us to look to Christ and to
live, to turn from this world and all of its pleasures and
focus on Christ. If any of us would shrink back
and look back at this world and look back at these pleasures,
the Lord God takes it very seriously, you say.
But this was the Old Testament. Well, I'll give you a verse
right now in the New Testament that sounds awfully similar.
Luke 9, verse 62. But Jesus said to them, no one,
having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the
Kingdom of God. Perhaps I'm speaking to you
right now. At this very moment in your
life. You've got your eyes on the
things of this world. You've got your eyes on women,
on men, on the praise of man. Perhaps on being rich, on being
successful. The things of God hold very
little interest. There's very little thought of
God and His word in your mind. If that's you, I want you to
know something. It's still not too late for you.
At one time I thought like that. At one time I was mesmerized by
the things of this world. But I want you to know that God
brought me out of that. And right now, God has not sent
down his second fire on this earth.
Right now God has not rained down fire and brimstone.
There is still an opportunity to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ
and to lay hold of faith in Him. But if that's you, whatever you
do right now, do not do the same thing as lots.
Please, please do not linger but turn to Christ immediately.
The fury and judgment that was poured out on Sodom and Gomorrah
was only a drop in the ocean compared to what Christ endured
at Calvary. You see, at Sodom and Gomorrah,
it was only the condemnation of two cities.
For in Christ on that cross he suffered the condemnation, the
judgment. For every city that has ever
existed, every civilization, all the sins of the world were laid
on Christ Jesus. And there God poured out all of
His wrath on Jesus Christ so that we can be forgiven.
The Bible says that Jesus was the propitiation for our sins.
Now that's a big word, but it effectively means that Christ
stood in the gap Here. We are standing here, and we've
got all, all of our sins that cling to us and hears God's
wrath, and it's coming for us. But Jesus Christ stands in the
middle, and he absorbs that wrath and he turns it in another
direction. Just like if you hold up a
mirror into the sunlight, it will reflect the light in
another direction. So the Lord Jesus Christ, he
absorbed that beam of wrath and he turned it, He reflected it
into something beautiful, into a beam of forgiveness.
And this is what I truly believe.
If you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for
your sins and rose from the dead on the third day, I believe
there's a verse in the Bible that we can also know and hold
for certainty. In my favorite chapter in the
Bible, Hosea Chapter 11, it says, How can I give you up,
Ephraim? How can I hand you over Israel?
How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like
Zaboyahim? My heart churns within me.
My sympathy is stirred. Did you know where those two
towns, Admah and Zaboyahim, were located?
Inside Sodom and Gomorrah. And here God is saying to his
people, the Jewish people. But I do believe if you put your
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, this is a promise for us as
well. He's saying that I cannot rain
fire and brimstone on you, my people, I love you so much.
Even though you've been rebellious, even though you've
been unfaithful to me, even though you've messed up.
I love you so much. I have so much compassion for
you. And I'm asking whoever's
listening right now, can you claim onto that promise
yourself? Do you know that you're hiding
in the love of God, the one who loved you, the one who sent his
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for you?
Because, mark my words, there is a seriousness.
The lesson we've just seen shows us that one day there is a
judgement coming, and there is a day when one day God's love will
never be found again. For those unbelievers who've
chosen to reject the Lord Jesus Christ, there will come a day
when no matter how much you search for it, you will never
find the love and forgiveness of God.
Just like Sodom and Gomorrah was put down into the dust and it
was never rebuilt again, there'll come a day when you
will never be able to rise again.
Mercy will be cut off. So perhaps you've been waiting
for my answer. Where do I think the real Sodom
and Gomorrah is? Well, please, please don't get
angry with me. But when I first began this
video, before I began it, in fact I was certain it was in
Numera when I looked at all of the sulfur balls.
And I thought, how else could there be millions of these in
the area? There's no other logical
explanation, but the more I delved into this research, the
more I looked at the evidence that Stephen Collins presented
and the fact that all of these things can be dated back to the
exact time period of lots. I was left source of speechless.
And on this one I know you might want an answer, but I'm sorry, I
truly cannot call it and remember this.
I'm just learning like you. And this is probably the bit
that's really going to irritate people.
But even if there was no evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah,
no physical evidence, I'd still believe it.
Why? Because God said it happened.
And if God said it happened, well, that's good enough for me.
After all, the Bible does tell us that we walk by faith and not
by sight. By the way, back in 2019, when I
first started making these types of videos, I actually preached a
message on my favorite chapter in the Bible.
If you've never seen that video, go and check it out now.
It might just bless you.