God’s calling his end-time people by the names Sodom and Gomorrah implies that they have become as evil as those cities’ ancient inhabitants whom God destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone. Even though God delivers a righteous remnant of his end-time people as he did Lot and his daughters from Sodom, many perish. Because such wickedness by God’s people is the catalyst of a worldwide Sodom-and-Gomorrah type of destruction, Isaiah lumps them together with end-time “Babylon” in its fiery destruction.
Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces betrays them:
they flaunt their sin like Sodom;
they cannot hide it.
Woe to their souls;
they have brought disaster upon themselves!
Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah,
O leaders of Sodom;
give heed to the law of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 13:19–20Babylon, the most splendid of kingdoms,
the glory and pride of Chaldeans,
shall be [thrown down]
as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Never shall it be reinhabited;
it shall not be resettled through all generations.
Isaiah 34:9–10Her streams shall turn into lava
and her earth into brimstone;
her land shall become as burning pitch.
Night and day it shall not be quenched;
its smoke shall ascend forever.
It shall remain a wasteland
from generation to generation;
through endless ages none shall traverse it.