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 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.