THE DESTRUCTION of ancient Sodom, which is in the news thanks to a new academic paper, is connected to the promise God made to Abraham and to the battle of Armageddon.
We discuss the reasons for the spiritual significance of Sodom, noting that Joseph stopped there and mourned Jacob for seven days before taking his father to his final resting place at Hebron—which, when you look at a map, is much closer to Egypt than the place called Abel Mizraim, which was “beyond the Jordan.”
