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11, Jude 7). It is a perversion of God’s design for the pinnacle of His creation which He established from
the beginning; For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife and the
two will become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24) Also; God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28). This last command cannot be fulfilled by
homosexuals.

Another reason why homosexuality is a particularly obnoxious sin to God, is that marriage between a
man and a woman is the forerunner to the marriage between Christ and His bride, the church, after
believers have been raptured, as described in Revelation 19:7-9.[33] Marriage
between a man and a woman is integral to and underpins the whole fabric of the
Bible. The Bible starts with marriage and it finishes with marriage. No wonder God
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calls any deviation from it, an abomination.

Two locations have possibly identified as the location of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Steven Collins led a team in the excavation of Tell el-Hammam and he is convinced
that this is the remains of Sodom. Note on the map it is located north of the Dead
Sea. This Tell revealed layers of ash between 18” to 6’ deep mixed with broken
mud bricks, charred pottery vessels and human bones – all violently churned into a
tell-tale ashy matrix. The age of this tell is during the Middle Bronze age (1,800 –
1540 BC) at the exact same time Abraham traveled this area (see reference,
previous paragraph for further information).

A second location is much broader and seems to identify all the five cities
mentioned in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 13.

Notice each of the cities stand out from the surrounding terrain because of the
white ash contained within them. The city of Zoar was a "little one" or a newly
built city that was square. As cities grew or expanded, they quickly lost this square shape.

Genesis 10:19 indicates the five cities formed the Canaanite border, thus they could not have been
grouped together at the south end of the
Dead Sea as popularly believed. They form
a north-south line along the Jordan/Dead
Sea area. Gomorrah is located at the base
of Masada, and in 1998, additional
formations were found in Jordan on the
opposite of the Dead Sea from Gomorrah
in the Lisan Peninsula, including a large
cemetery area containing 1,000,000
graves. The same structures as found on
the Israeli side were also found on the
Jordanian side - ash, brimstone and even
ceramic tile. This is looking southwest at
the southern end of the Dead Sea. On the
map above, the red arrow indicates the
view.

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