Jerusalem, the city where Christ was crucified, is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt in Revelation 11:8. Sodom's vileness centers on sexual immorality, and Egypt stands for slavery, a type of the world, so Jerusalem is marked by vileness and by slavery to sin and to Satan. God often uses a city to represent an entire nation, much as "Washington" is understood to speak for the whole United States. Jerusalem was Israel's capital, so the titles Sodom and Egypt apply to the whole nation and not to the city alone. That extends to the modern Israelitish peoples in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and northwestern Europe. Violent crime in Britain now exceeds that in America, and sexual looseness is notable in the Scandinavian countries. The United States itself is rotten from within. Marijuana is a larger cash crop than corn, and millions of outwardly respectable citizens live double lives, taking part in an illegal economy. Pornography earns as much as Hollywood's legitimate box office, and by some accounts more than professional sports and the movies combined. Hundreds of new pornographic films are made weekly, and porn websites number in the hundreds of thousands. Businessmen who look legitimate break the law by hiring illegal labor. God rightly calls the Israelite people Sodom and Egypt.

Ezekiel presents Jerusalem as a type of Sodom through an allegory of three sisters representing nations. Jerusalem appears as an abandoned infant rescued and elevated to royalty by God, yet she grows thankless, proud, and haughty. She turns her back on her Savior and engages in sexual deviance, the initial step toward a debased mind. Her elder sister Samaria represents the northern tribes, already punished for idolatry, while her younger sister Sodom represents the Canaanites, long destroyed for their sins. Jerusalem surpasses both in corruption. She does not merely walk in their ways but multiplies abominations beyond theirs, thereby justifying her sisters by comparison. Sodom's specific iniquities include pride, fullness of food, abundance of idleness, failure to strengthen the poor and needy, haughtiness, and the commission of abomination before God. Despite these offenses, Sodom and Samaria appear more righteous than Jerusalem, whose sins exceed theirs by half or more. Sexual deviance marks every case as an early symptom of rejecting God before the full debasement of mind occurs. This comparison underscores the cause-and-effect pattern in which turning from God produces escalating moral decline, with Jerusalem exemplifying the outcome when a people who have known divine favor exceed the guilt of Sodom itself.