Sodom and Gomorrah – Metaphors of Movement Esoteric Study Group

Jesus says: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement, than for that city. Luke 10:11–12:

Sodom and Gomorrah were cities that were said to be located near the Dead Sea in the Bible. According to the story, the cities were known for their wickedness and immorality, and God decided to destroy them as punishment.

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in the Book of Genesis. According to the story, two angels were sent by God to Sodom to investigate reports of the city’s wickedness. The angels were welcomed into the home of a man named Lot, who lived in Sodom.

However, the men of Sodom became aware that the angels were in town, and they demanded that Lot hand over the angels so that they could “know” them (a euphemism for sexual activity). Lot refused and instead offered to give the men his daughters, but the men refused and tried to break down the door of Lot’s home to get to the angels.

At this point, the angels intervened and struck the men of Sodom with blindness, allowing Lot and his family to escape. The angels then told Lot to leave the city, warning him that God was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.

Lot and his family fled the cities and were the only ones to survive the destruction, which is said to have been caused by a rain of fire and brimstone from the sky.

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is often used as a cautionary tale about the dangers of immorality and disobedience to God.

According to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, Lot and his wife fled the cities before they were destroyed. They were told by the angels to not look back as they left, but Lot’s wife disobeyed this instruction and looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt as punishment.

Lot and his daughters flee Sodom. His wife (center) is already a salt pillar. (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493)

Lot and his daughters continued on and eventually settled in a cave in the mountains. It is said that Lot’s daughters became concerned that they would not be able to find husbands, since they were the only survivors of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. They decided to get their father drunk, and while he was unconscious, they each had a child by him. The elder daughter had a son named Moab, who became the father of the Moabites, and the younger daughter had a son named Ben-Ammi, who became the father of the Ammonites.

After this, the story of Lot does not appear again in the Bible. It is not clear what happened to him after the events described in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The word “sodomy” comes from the biblical city of Sodom where the men of Sodom were known for their homosexuality and other forms of sexual immorality, and the term “sodomy” came to be used as a general term for any form of sexual behavior that is considered unnatural or deviant. The word has been used in this way for many centuries and is still used today, although it is now often considered to be a pejorative term.

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