Recent comparisons of the United States of America with the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah have drawn the response of an American senator, who said the country would not destroy the country as he did to the biblical cities.
Christian Headlines reported Senator James Lankford as saying on October 8 that God has not given up on the U.S.
Genesis 19:24-25 gives account of how God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone and fire because of wickedness.
It says, “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities and plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”
God spoke about the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah in Verses 20 and 21 of Chapter 18 of Genesis. “And the Lord said, Because the cry of 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; and if not, I will know.”
In Matthew 10: 14 and 15, Jesus spoke about Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that any town which does receive the gospel being preached, “It will be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for that town.”
Some Americans believe their country is witnessing moral decadence like Sodom and Gomorrah hence they surmise it might attract God’s wrath.
Assessing the degeneration of the U.S., Senator Lankford, while speaking at Family Research Council’s Inaugural Pray Vote Stand Summit in Leesburg, Va, said, he remained hopeful about the future of the country because God has continued to send Christians to serve in Washington.
He said, “That would tell me even if this is Sodom and Gomorrah, He hasn’t given up on it. We shouldn’t give up on it.”
Lankford, a Republican, who represents Oklahoma, said some of his constituents sometimes compare Washington and Sodom and Gomorrah, telling him, “I can’t believe you work there.”
“And I’ll typically smile at them and go, ‘Yeah, I can see some similar characteristics. But at the end in Sodom and Gomorrah, God was pulling all the believers out. He’s still sending believers in (to Washington),” he said.
The senator said Washington D.C. is a “mirror to the country more than the country wants to admit. If we want to see a change, I really am convinced that Washington doesn’t change the country. (Instead) the country changes Washington. And the country is changed by churches and by believers actually living their faith. I really do believe in the power of the gospel.”
President of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, noted, “If (God) were finished with America, He wouldn’t be calling men and women of faith to Washington D.C. and He’s doing that.”