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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

3571 — Sodom and Gomorrah

Is it not likely that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by an ordinary volcanic eruption? A. K.

Not if we believe the record. All of the various means which entered into their destruction we do not know, but it certainly was not an ordinary volcanic destruction. In the first place, it was known that it was coming, and coming as the judgment of God. Abraham himself was warned concerning it. So also was Lot, and the words of the angels were, "For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it." "Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven." Gen. 19:13, 24. We have no more reason to question the record there than we have the record concerning the character of Sodom and Gomorrah.