SODOM and GOMORRAH and the SALT SEA

The Annals the World by James Ussher, 1658 – Annals of Old Testament

82. Abraham invited angels, who looked like travelling men, into his house and gave them a

feast. These angels reiterated the promise of the birth of Isaac for Sarah's sake. They foretold the

judgment God intended upon the 5 cities, for their utter destruction. Abraham, fearing what

would become of Lot and his family in Sodom, made intercession to God for the sparing of that

place. Ge 18:23-33 Therefore Sodom, Gomorrah, Adamah and Zeboiim, for their horrible sins,

perished by fire and brimstone that rained down upon them from heaven. Ge 19:1-29 These

cities were to be an example to all wicked men in times to come, of the pains of that everlasting

fire to be inflicted on them in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death. 2Pe

2:6,7 Re 19:20 20:10 21:8

The monument of this remains to this day, even the Dead Sea. The valley of Siddim, where these

five cities stood in former times was full of brimstone and salt pits. This has since grown into a

 vast lake, which from the brimstone still floating in it, is called "Laces Asphaltitis",

 a Lake of Brimstone and from the salt, "Mare Salsum",

the Salt Sea. /APC Wis 10:6,7 Ge 14:3,10 De 3:17 29:23 Zep 2:9

Of this, Solinus thus writes:

``A great way off from Jerusalem, there lies a woeful spectacle, of a country to be seen, which

was blasted from heaven and appears by the blackness of the earth falling all to cinders. There

were in that place before this two cities, one called Sodom, the other Gomorrah, where if an

apple grew, though it seems to have a show of maturity and ripeness, yet it is not eatable at all.

The outer skin of it, contains nothing within it save a stinking smell, mingled with ashes and

being never so lightly touched, sends forth a smoke and the rest falls presently into a light dust

of powder.''

EDITOR NOTE: Ussher is 17th century and Solinus is 3^rd Century