Here's Nancy DeMas Wogamuth with a sobering history lesson.

Mount Vesuvius is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.

It's located on the western coast of Italy near the city of Naples.

And on August 24th in 79 AD, there was a massive explosion of fire and smoke that came spewing out of the top of this mountain,

this volcano. Ultimately, it blew off the entire cone of the mountain, and there was this huge

mushroom cloud that rose 27 miles into the sky from this active volcano. The powerful explosion from Mount Vesuvius

was 100,000 times greater

than the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima

toward the end of World War II.

That's a powerful explosion.

Do you know what the Bible tells us about an explosion that rivals the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

We're about to hear about it on the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies.

It's March 16th, 2021, and I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy It's March 16th, 2021, and I'm Dana Gresh. Nancy's continuing in a series called Remember Lot's wife.

To set up our biblical narrative, Nancy's going to tell us more about the tragedy in ancient Italy.

So if there are any young kids listening with you, be advised that today's

program contains some mature themes. Here's Nancy. At the base of Asuvius at the time was an

active thriving Roman city named Pompeii. At the time, historians think that it had maybe 10 to 20,000

inhabitants. Within 24 hours, the entire city was

buried under some 20 feet of volcanic ash, mud, and rocks. Some of these people died while they were

trying to find shelter in their own homes. Others died while they were out on the road trying to flee from the city.

Those who weren't killed by the falling debris were asphyxiated by the gases in the air.

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