Recorded in your Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah
—cities utterly destroyed by fire from heaven.
Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event
unmistakably akin to the one described in Genesis.
Nov 29, 2018
Meteor Explosion Could Have Taken Out Entire Bronze Age Civilization, New Research Reveals
“The 3.7kaBP Middle Ghor Event: Catastrophic Termination of a Bronze Age Civilization.“
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The details are almost incredible, clay pottery melting
into glass. Zircon crystals formed within one second,
the result of superheating to temperatures perhaps as
hot as the surface of the sun. A “tidal wave” of boiling
hot salt had swept over the land. Meteoric events like
these are extremely rare.
The estimated regional population of 40,000 to
65,000 people would have been killed instantly
by the strange event.
The whole area was once a thriving civilization.
Genesis 13:10 describes the location as a veritable
“garden of the Lord,” “well watered every where.”
Archaeology shows prosperity in this area, right
up until it came to a sudden, jarring end around
3,700 years ago. The same period at which the
Bible places the “fire and brimstone” destruction.
In the centuries following this event, the territory
has remained lifeless and uncultivatable. To this
day it is utterly saline and quite literally dead.
The Bible associates salt with total destruction;
in Shechem salt was scattered (Judges 9:45)
the Salt Sea (Dead Sea), the world’s deepest
hypersaline lake—10 times saltier than the ocean.
From a scene of utter carnage of biblical proportions.
We can debate a meteor-type event or other
heavenly phenomena happened, what is not
debatable is the effect. And that destruction
—in location, time and description—directly
matches the biblical event.