In Revelation 11:8, the great city where our Lord was crucified is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, identifying it as Jerusalem. Spiritually, in the mind of God, Jerusalem is associated with the vileness of Sodom, particularly in terms of sexual immorality, and with Egypt, representing slavery and a type of the world. This association extends beyond the city itself, as God often uses Jerusalem to represent the entire nation of Israel, portraying it as a nation filled with vileness and slavery to sin and to satan. This depiction of Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt applies not only to the city but expands to encompass the broader Israelite nations, reflecting a pervasive moral and spiritual decline.

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.