Luke 17:29 to Genesis 19:24

NT Text: Luke 17:29

OT Source(s):

• Genesis 19:24 ("Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens")

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): Analogy + Redemptive-Historical Progression

Significance: Jesus' discourse on the days of the Son of Man includes the Sodom analogy: "But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all" (Luke 17:29), evoking Genesis 19:24 where gāprît wāʾēš ("sulfur and fire") fall from Yahweh out of the heavens. The destruction of Sodom functions throughout Scripture as the paradigm of sudden, comprehensive divine judgment on a civilization oblivious to its own doom (cf. Amos 4:11; Isaiah 1:9; 13:19; Jude 7). Jesus uses the Sodom event — paired with the Flood — to characterize the unexpected and inescapable nature of eschatological judgment. Life will be proceeding with apparent normalcy; then the Son of Man is revealed and everything changes instantaneously. The dual use of flood and fire also connects to 2 Peter 3:5-7, where the same pattern of past water-judgment and coming fire-judgment frames the eschatological horizon.