I. Christ believed the destruction of Sodom to be a literal event.
II. He uses it as a Warning about sin: As He destroyed people for sin once before---so shall people be destroyed for sin again.
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.
--Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luke 17:28-30
*And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which
were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those
cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning... Jude 1:7 NLT