The tragedy of Jesus' words in Matthew 24 are stark and real. No one expected the flood during Noah's day, especially considering that God watered the earth with a mist daily. What was rain-- No one expected God to destroy Sodom or Gomorrah with fire and brimstone due to their lawlessness and wickedness. It wasn't just homosexuality and homosexual rape. That existed because that society had gone downhill for some time and that was the natural devolving as Paul tells us in Romans 1.