06/30/2020 -Day 023 -Genesis 18 -19 // Sodom and Gomorroh archaelogical note.
From my Haley’s Bible Handbook – Genesis pg 98 – 100:
“Archaelogical Note: In 1924, Drs. W.F. Albright and M.G. Kyle, directing a joint Expedition of the American Schools and Xenia Seminary, found, at the southeast corner of the Dead Sea, five Oases, made by fresh water streams, and centrally located place, called Bab-ed-Dra, the remains of a great fortified enclosure, evidently a ‘high place’ for religious festivals. There were a great quantity of potsherds, flints, and other remains of a period dating between 2500 b.c. and 2000 b.c., and evidence that the population ended abruptly about 2000 b.c. This evidence that the region was densely populated and prosperous indicates that it must have been very fertile, like the ‘garden of God’. That the population ceased abruptly, and that it has been a region of unmixed desolation ever since, seems to indicate that the district was destroyed by some great cataclysm which changed the soil and climate.
The opinion of Albright and Kyle, and most archaeologists, is that Sodom and Gomorrah were located on these Oases, further down the streams, and that the site is covered by the Dead Sea…. There are many pillars of salt at the south end of the Dead Sea which have borne the name of ‘Lot’s Wife.’ Indeed everything about the region seems to dovetail exactly with the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorah…
pg 98 – “Jesus likened the time of His Return to the days of Sodom (Luke 17:26-32); as he did also to the days of the Flood. Both were periods of unspeakable wickedness. Today, on a scale never before known in history, with greed, brutality, beastliness and criminal instincts, in demons in the high places of earth, it does not require much imagination to see the end towrd which we are heading…. Unless there comes a world-movement of Repentance, the Day of Doom may not be far off. “
Jimmy