You may say in those days, in ancient times, it was the world centre of LGBT. Sodom, alternative morality, will become king in society. It will not just grow, but become increasingly belligerent and threatening. It will terrify even the legislators, so that they all fall over themselves to legislate in its favour, and compel it to be recognised and accepted. Sodom, grotesque immorality, takes the place of morality and biblical standards.
We are seeing increasingly the move towards total control over lives. We have seen it over the last 30, 40 years, things that you would never have thought of 50 years ago. Many undertakings of governments: no witness allowed. No witness allowed, say, in the hospitals. No witness increasingly allowed in the schools. Pivotal things take place. The government makes criminal, illegal if you please, the teaching of design for origins of life in the schools, even as a lowly option. The grasping of total control to progressively eliminate if possible what the world finds offensive: the message of Christ, the message that we are sinners by nature, and we are doomed and we are lost without redemption and mercy from on high. And the pace will quicken, and it will become very extreme. ‘Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.’ So it is undoubtedly still Jerusalem, but now symbolising the last days.