Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver recently took a cruise with his wife during which they visited the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. and it made him realize that America is likewise on the verge of total destruction if it does not stop legal abortion and gay marriage.

“I think we’re living in the shade of Vesuvius,” Staver said on a recent episode of Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, warning that Americans are going about their daily lives, removing God from our society, and engaging in sexual immorality, completely unaware that this nation will soon be completely wiped out if we do not change our ways.

When co-host Matt Barber compared the destruction of Pompeii to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, Staver completely agreed, saying that just as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for engaging in homosexuality, “in Pompeii, they were doing the same kind of thing … it was a sexually immoral society.”

And the same thing will soon happen to America, Staver warned.

“I think that’s where we are today with some of the threats to life and family and religious freedom in America,” he said. “We can’t just continue to go on and slaughter one child every twenty seconds, fifty five million since 1973, and expect that there’s not going to be consequences. We can’t go on and redefine marriage and family and not expect any consequences. We can’t to on and pretend that God doesn’t exist without expecting consequences”: