Is Zoar a city which got destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Apparently not. Sodom and Gomorrah were destoyed between verses 22 and 30.\n\nGenesis 19:21-22, 30\n21 He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. \n22 "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar. \n\n30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. \n\nI suppose it could be argued that Lot left Zoar from fear that it too would be destoyed, but there is no clear indication of this, and there are some major problems with this assumption.\n1) Lot was promised that Zoar would be spared.\n2) There is no clear indication WHAT Lot was afraid of (He could also have been afraid of the people of Zoar, or of any number of other things.)\n3) Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed WHILE Lot was in Zoar.\n4) The name chage to Zoar. Prior to this, the name of the town was Bela (destruction,) (Gen. 14:2,8), after this, it was called Zoar (little, of no importance).
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Sodom and Gomorrah: by far the biggest scriptural weapon used by both the religious AND secular communities against homosexuals and homosexuality. Common thought is that God destroyed the cities because they were full of homosexuals. That assumption is made because the men of Sodom attempted to rape the angels sent to inspect and destroy the cities.\n\n\nLet's put this into perspective. The Bible says that there were a total of five major kingdom cities - Admah, Sodom, Zeboiim, Bela (Zoar), and Gomorrah - which were to be destroyed that day. Now, it is highly unlikely (if not impossible) that five kingdoms were populated with nothing but homosexuals. Even in this day and age, where the world has about 6,000,000,000 people, the Religious Right denies that there are even the 10% of homosexuals in the world that has been promoted by the Kinsey Institute on Human Sexuality. San Francisco - the gay capitol of the world - counts less than 50% of its population as homosexual, and are we to believe the church's interpretation that five major cities were populated with nothing but homosexuals? \n\n\nFurthermore, the church has taught that the entire population of the men of Sodom where gathered at Lot's door to rape the angels. But according to the biblical text, this is absolutely false. The text merely says that "men of the city" came to Lot. This could not be ALL the men of the city because AFTER the angels blinded the men at the door, they say to Lot, \n\n\n"Hast thou here any besides? \n\nson in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, \n\nand whatsoever thou hast in the city \n\nbring them out of this place." \n\n- Genesis 19:12 \n\n\nIt is obvious then that the entire population was not at Lot's door, but merely a group of lascivious men. Then, two verses later, Lot leaves his house, goes out into the city, finds his sons, his daughters and their husbands, and warns them to flee. But they didn't listen to him simply because they thought he was loony. \n\nWhat's more, the doctrine held by the church is rather a backward theory. The angels did not destroy the city because of the actions of the men at Lot's door. That event was merely the "last straw", so to speak. Before the event even occurred, the angels had already come with the express intent of destroying the five cities. \n\n\nGay rights activists, and even some "gay churches", have said that the cities were destroyed because they violated the Laws pertaining to the treatment of strangers. I wouldn't count on that either. Why? First, we only have one example of this mistreatment, which only occurred in Sodom. What of the other four cities? Second, because God is EXTREMELY patient with the wicked (read the book of Jonah for example), and you'd have to do more than just treat strangers rudely to get Him to obliterate five whole cities off the face of the earth! It is God's will that NONE should perish, according to His Word (and I'll take His Word for it). Those cities must have done something REALLY evil for Him to say, "Because Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me." Abraham begged God to spare the cities if He found JUST 10 righteous people in it - but there wasn't even 10. NOT EVEN 10! THAT'S how bad they were. \n\n\nLet's cut right to the bone and see what GOD actually said was the reason He destroyed those five cities: \n\n\n"Behold, THIS was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: \n\npride, \n\nfulness of bread, \n\nand abundance of idleness was in her, \n\nneither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy; \n\nAnd they were haughty, \n\nand committed abomination before Me. \n\nTherefore I took them away as I saw good." \n\n- Ezekiel 16:49-50 \n\n \n\n\n"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, \n\nand the cities about them
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Read Numbers 16.  God opened the ground and swallowed Korah, his followers and their families.  He also sent fire from the sky to kill the rest of the 250.  You would think the rest of the Israelites learned their lesson...but they complained and whined the very next day and God sent a plague of death sweeping across the camps until Aaron atoned for their sins.
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I don't think the Bible is clear on the exact dimensions, but it oviously went all the way around the city, and was tall and strong enough that the enemies of Israel were intimidated by it (Neh. 6:16).
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The only real changes I can think od would be 1. who the slave masters were and 2. the death of one god and the birth of another. I see little difference from north, central and south. They came, they saw, they conquered.
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First you have the city of Sodom where God says he has condemned because the men there engage in a great deal of wickedness. So what where they doing? Here is what they said when Lot and his family arrived in the city.\n\n‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’’"“ (NIV)\n\nSoon after the city was destroyed.\n\nThis is from Jude\n\n“In a similar way Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” (NIV)\n\nAnother verse from leveticus\n\n“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (18:22)\n\nNote that God describes it as DETESTABLE. This is not an opinion that changes over the years and God is all of a sudden pro gay sex.
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Yes. Quite simply, I'm not sure how to take your question, but I will attempt to answer it as I understand it to be asked.\nThe capitol of Paradise is refered to as the "New Jerusalem", "Zion", "The City of God" in the Bible.\n\nIf I understand your question as a humorous one, then the answer would have to be the letter "P".
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The world had gotten so sinful that the waters washed away everything but the ark and everything in it
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Yes, this is true.  Zarathustra (erroneously called Zoroaster) lived 9000 years ago in Persia.  Buddhist and Judeo-Christian religions are said to be made up chiefly from the history and miracles of Zarathustra.\n\nWhen he appeared before his followers on the night following the day that he was hanged and then fed to lions:\n\nAnd he spake, saying:  Fear not; I am the same that was with you and was hanged and died, whose flesh was devoured by the lions; I am Zarathustra!  Marvel not that I have the semblance of a corporeal body, for its substance is holden together by the power of my spirit.  Neither is this a miracle, for the spirits of all the living hold in the same way, each its own corporeal body.  As iron attracteth iron, the spirit learneth to attract from the air a corporeal body of its like and measure.
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Revelation discusses an entity it calls “Babylon the Great”, which practices adulterous harlotry with earthly governments. Only false religion could lyingly claim and disgustingly betray a relationship with God by "selling" itself for governmental "favors"!\n\n(Revelation 18:3) all the nations have fallen victim, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her\n\n(Revelation 14:8) Babylon the Great has fallen, she who made all the nations drink of the wine of the anger of her fornication!”\n\nThe Bible shows that all the many forms of false religion make up a conglomerate “Babylon the Great.” (Revelation 17:5) That name calls to mind the ancient city of Babylon, where false religion started up after the Flood of Noah’s day. Many teachings and practices now common in false religion originated long ago in Babylon. For example, the Babylonians worshiped trinities, or triads, of gods. Today, the central doctrine of many religions is the Trinity. But the Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God, and that Jesus Christ is his Son. (John 17:3) The Babylonians also believed that humans have an immortal soul that survives the body after death and can suffer in a place of torment. Today, belief in the immortal soul or spirit that can suffer in hellfire is taught by most religions.\n\nSince ancient Babylonian worship spread throughout the earth, modern Babylon the Great can properly be identified as the world empire of false religion. And God has foretold that this empire of false religion will come to a sudden end. (Revelation 18:8) Do you see why it is vital that you separate yourself from every part of Babylon the Great? The Almighty God wants you to “get out of her” quickly while there is still time.—Revelation 18:4.\n\nTrue Christians can help you understand other details of the Scriptures. You can contact them at:\nhttp://www.watchtower.org
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If you're referring to Sodom and Gomorrah, that just wiped out a couple of cities that incurred divine wrath. it didn't wipe out sin.
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Ninveh was built in the time of Noah after the flood and since it was a port city, I can guess it was a rich city. The people of ninveh were wicked but when their king heard what was about to happen to them if they don't repent he told of the people of the city to leave their bad ways and they all followed him and did so. \nHope it helps some...
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Babylon the Great is the world empire of false religion, embracing all religions whose teachings and practices do not conform to the true worship of Jehovah, the only true God. Following the Flood of Noah’s day, false religion had its beginning at Babel (later known as Babylon).  (Gen. 10:8-10; 11:4-9) In time, Babylonish religious beliefs and practices spread to many lands.  So Babylon the Great became a fitting name for false religion as a whole.\nWhat evidence points to the identity of Babylon the Great, referred to in Revelation?\n\nIt could not be the ancient city of Babylon.  Revelation was written at the end of the first century C.E. and describes events that would reach down to our day.  The Encyclopedia Americana says:  “The city Babylon was taken by the Persians under Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. Later Alexander the Great planned to make Babylon the capital of his eastern empire, but after his death Babylon gradually lost importance.”  (1956, Vol. III, p. 7)  Today the city is an uninhabited ruin.\n\nIn the symbolism of Revelation, Babylon the Great is referred to as a “great city,” a “kingdom” that rules other kings.  (Revelation 17:18.)  Like a city, it would have many organizations within it; and like a kingdom that includes other kings in its domain, it would be international in scope.  It is described as having relations with political rulers and contributing much to the wealth of men in commerce, while itself being a third element that “has become a dwelling place of demons” and a persecutor of “prophets and of holy ones.”—Revelation 18:2, 9-17, 24.  \n\nAn empire can be political, commercial, or religious.  The woman named Babylon the Great is not a political empire because God’s Word states that “the kings of the earth,” or the political elements of this world, “committed fornication” with her.  Her fornication refers to the alliances she has made with the rulers of this earth and explains why she is called “the great harlot.”—Revelation 17:1, 2; James 4:4.\n\nBabylon the Great cannot be a commercial empire because the “merchants of the earth,” representing the commercial elements, will be mourning her at the time of her destruction. In fact, both kings and merchants are described as looking at Babylon the Great from “a distance.”  (Revelation 18:3, 9, 10, 15-17)  Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that Babylon the Great is, not a political or a commercial empire, but a religious one.\n\nThe religious identity of Babylon the Great is further confirmed by the statement that she misleads all the nations by means of her “spiritistic practice.”  (Revelation 18:23.)  Since all forms of spiritism are demon-inspired, it is not surprising that the Bible calls Babylon the Great “a dwelling place of demons.” (Revelation 18:2; Deuteronomy 18:10-12)  This empire is also described as being actively opposed to true religion, persecuting “prophets” and “holy ones.”  (Revelation 18:24) In fact, Babylon the Great has such deep hatred for true religion that she violently persecutes and even murders “the witnesses of Jesus.” (Revelation 17:6.) Hence, this woman named Babylon the Great clearly represents the world empire of false religion, which includes all religions that stand in opposition to Jehovah God.\n\nIf you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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I saw a church burn down.
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And it came to pass that the armies of the deadliness had grown and numbered ten and ten thousand. They bowed in the eastern sands; they became serpents upon all the earth. They caused all the lush fields to bring forth rotted stalks and the entirety of plentiful trees gave forth spoiled fruits.\nThey were the great serpent army; they caused nations to become as wasted as they spread their seed upon all lands. The white marbled city had become a haven for those that pledged hatred upon all the righteous. They sent forth a fiery beacon of light for the destruction of the new city.
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no, Zoroastrians were the first monotheist people and did worship the creator. Fire was a holy symbolic element for them. you can get more info about it on search engines not here!
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