The same sins of gluttony and drunkenness benumbed the moral sensibilities of the inhabitants of Sodom so that crimes seemed to be the delight of the men and women of that wicked city. Christ thus warns the world: “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” {3T 163.3}

[De samme synder som var så almindelige i Noahs dage og som kaldte Guds vrede ned over verden, råder i vore dage. Mænd og kvinder har fulgt deres spise- og drikkevaner indtil frådseri og drukkenskab. Denne så almindelige synd - tilfredsstillelsen af en fordærvet appetit - ophidsede menneskenes lidenskaber i Noahs dage. Dette førte til en almindelig fordærvelse, indtil deres forbrydelser og voldshandlinger råbte til himlen og Gud måtte rense jorden for dens moralske vederstyggeligheder med en vandflod.