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FULL TEXT: When we hear of earthquakes, floods, airplane crashes, and other such catastrophes, we are shocked at the resulting loss of so many human lives. But the greatest tragedy is the death of someone who could have been saved! God’s judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah was terrible. Suddenly, He sent fire and brimstone from heaven to destroy all of the cities’ inhabitants. But the greatest tragedy was not that those people perished, but that they could have been saved. Lot had warned his sons-in-law in Genesis 19:14, but “…he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.” So they died, although they could have been saved. The flood was a worldwide catastrophe. The Bible says, “The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:11–12). How the people must have desperately fought to save their lives! But Jesus said later on, “The flood came, and took them all away.” Was the loss of life in that worldwide deluge the greatest tragedy? No. What was worse was that the opportunity of salvation had been available to the people of the earth for 120 years. But Jesus said of them, “They knew not.” They let the Lord Himself close the door of the ark without ever having used it. According to the law of the Bible, “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). But God, in His great love, sent His Son, Jesus Christ, and accomplished the greatest deed in the history of mankind. He brought forth salvation when He shed His blood on Calvary’s cross for sins. Not only did He die, but He also arose from the dead for our justification (Romans 4:25). Now you can avoid the greatest tragedy