Month: July 2019

28 July, 201928 July, 2019

Josh Harris: Seven Thoughts

The internet is abuzz (it’s always abuzz about something isn’t it?) about the repudiation of the Christian faith, the apostacy Josh Harris and subsequent separation from his wife. Since you are reading this on the internet I will assume that you can find all the details you need there and so I shall not repeat them here.

What is a Christian to make of all this? Well, there’s much. For one thing, we need to reclaim the language of apostasy and understand what that means in the dying days of Western civilization. I’m not going to do that here. But I do offer seven things to consider:

Listen to, that is, read and heed, those Christians who have finished their race. In other words, spend more time reading the teachings of dead Christians who lived a life of holiness and who taught truth. These often have much more value than those of the present, and their subsequent lives will not disappoint. The argument that those who have died do not have enough relevance to our situation today can be dispelled by actually reading them. Anyone who says that John Owens has nothing to teach us hasn’t read him.
Do not overestimate the spiritual vitality of celebrity Christians. It may be easy to think that Christian celebrities have actually earned their status. The worst of them may believe they have earned it, but the best would shudder at the thought. In either case, God raises some up and not others.
Do not underestimate the spiritual peril of celebrity status. Celebrity has it’s own dangers. A well-known (and revered) Christian often speaks with more authority than he should. A celebrity Christian can be shallow, ill-informed, and outright wrong, but his words will carry much more weight than someone who is out of the public eye. Fame does not confer wisdom or knowledge, or correct information.
Be angry, but do not sin. Anger is a normal response to anyone who builds a brand, gains a following, then abandons the followers and repudiates his teachings. Be skeptical about a person’s honesty, when the issue is a moral failing before it is a spiritual or doctrinal one. Moral failure is the predecessor to apostacy. Be angry because this will cause some to stumble: “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” Luke 17:1–2. There are people who were genuinely helped by Harris’ books, who are today questioning him and everything he stood for. It is only the Christian celebrity who, upon committing apostasy and fleeing into the arms of the welcoming world, will receive accolades, praise, and book deals. He will be acclaimed as “brave” when he is really choosing the easiest and most cowardly choice of action possible (Matthew 7:13-14).
Seek to be faithful, not famous; never confuse the two. Remember that for every Christian celebrity, there are many more average Christians who live lives faithful to Christ. Seek to be one of them. Remember too, that with abundance of everything, even fame, comes responsibility: “Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.” Luke 12:48.
Do not insulate yourself from other Christians. No one is to be “above the fray.” For Galatians 6:1 to work, a Christian has to have those in his life who can speak to him about sin and error. Celebrities are often surrounded by sycophants who enjoy basking in the light of their friend far to much to actually be a friend.
Watch yourself. Nothing that has happened in this unhappy episode is out of the range of possibility for anyone else (1 Corinthians 6:12).

12 July, 201912 July, 2019

The Goal

The most popular verse in the Bible (according to progressives): Matthew 7:1. The most hated verse? Read on.

The issue of conversion therapy also known as reparative therapy is getting a lot of press today. A new Canadian federal law is being proposed, but its counterpart has been in place in Ontario since 2015. Similar laws are being enacted throughout the US. Simply put, conversion therapy is any psychological counselling or psychotherapy that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sexual behaviour. It is overwhelmingly seen by current psychology as a terrible thing that must be banned. This banning means that although a boy may become a girl, a 1homosexual boy can never become a heterosexual boy. This is confusion at its finest.

At the heart of the matter is the question, “How set is this identity, this desire?” Is it impossible to change orientation, but not impossible to change genders? How often? Is it undesirable to even allow the question of change? Please read Wilson’s excellent recent blog posts here and here. I cannot express this issues as well as Wilson does, so I won’t attempt it. He lays it out pretty straight. I want to extend his though a little.

My concern is the goal of all this. When Wilson writes that “It is a matter of high principle to the progressives that any teenager afflicted with this particular form of lust must be allowed to drown in it” he is speaking of a goal. When he writes that there must be no prohibition against a sex change yet excluding homosexuals from the possibility of a change of orientation, “The reason you exclude them is that you are not trying to liberate anyone. Your mission is to corrupt everyone, and that is not the same thing. And of course, once people are corrupted, you want to keep them there” he is also speaking of a goal—the goal of corruption. Drowning in lust and corruption are mandated by law. That is the goal, but it goes further than that.

So back to the goal that ought to be clear to any Biblically informed Christian: the goal is to eliminate the legality of Christian conversion. This is possible in their minds because progressives think that the laws they pass actually create reality. But now the riddle, “What is the most hated verse in the Bible?” Right here: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

This “sin list” is not exhaustive, but because it might be missing some sins it is not sound hermeneutics to conclude that they are exempt from this condemnation. Further, it should not be assumed that only visible, physical acts are condemned here, keeping in mind Jesus’s words about the sins of the heart (Matthew 5-7).

The real offence to the modern mind is this, “And such were some of you . . .” (vs 11). This implies change—a change forbidden by the world. Anti-conversion laws are essentially laws that restrict the Christian faith to the limits of a small part of an individual’s private life, and that will be reduced in time. We shouldn’t expect anti-conversion laws to be content to stop at sexual orientation. If the world loves corruption, it will love corruption through every aspect of life and come to demand it.

Sexual orientation is seen as something fixed and immutable, and if one is same-sex attracted there is nothing that can be done or allowed to be done to change it. It is certainly not something to correct, for that would imply something is wrong! No, the only wrong thing here, according to our 21st-century masters, is that gender is fluid and orientation is not.

“But such WERE some of you . . .” See the problem?

The Gospel is the enemy of this kind of thinking. But then it always has been.

9 July, 2019

Passage list for “abomination” in the English Standard Version of the Bible

abomination in ESV

Genesis 43:32	They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Genesis 46:34	you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Exodus 8:26	But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
Leviticus 18:22	You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 18:26	But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Leviticus 18:27	(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),
Leviticus 18:29	For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:30	So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 20:13	If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Deuteronomy 7:25	The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 7:26	And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 12:31	You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 13:14	then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,
Deuteronomy 14:3	“You shall not eat any abomination.
Deuteronomy 17:1	“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 17:4	and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,
Deuteronomy 18:9	“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:12	for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
Deuteronomy 20:18	that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 22:5	“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18	You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 24:4	then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 25:16	For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:15	” ‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 32:16	They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Judges 20:6	So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
1 Kings 11:5	For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:7	Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
1 Kings 14:24	and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
1 Kings 15:13	He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 21:26	He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
2 Kings 21:11	“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,
2 Kings 23:13	And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
2 Kings 23:24	Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 28:3	and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:2	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:33	And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 36:8	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 36:14	All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ezra 9:1	After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:11	which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
Ezra 9:14	shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Job 15:16	how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
Psalm 14:1	The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
Psalm 53:1	The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
Proverbs 3:32	for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Proverbs 6:16	There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 8:7	for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 11:1	A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:20	Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
Proverbs 12:22	Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 13:19	A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
Proverbs 15:8	The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Proverbs 15:9	The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
Proverbs 15:26	The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.
Proverbs 16:5	Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 16:12	It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 17:15	He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 20:10	Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 20:23	Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Proverbs 21:27	The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
Proverbs 24:9	The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
Proverbs 26:25	when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
Proverbs 28:9	If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 29:27	An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.
Isaiah 1:13	Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
Isaiah 41:24	Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
Isaiah 44:19	No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”
Isaiah 66:3	“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
Isaiah 66:17	“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:7	And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 6:15	Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:10	and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
Jeremiah 8:12	Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 13:27	I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
Jeremiah 16:18	But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
Jeremiah 32:34	They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah 32:35	They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 44:4	Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’
Jeremiah 44:22	The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Ezekiel 5:9	And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
Ezekiel 5:11	Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 6:9	then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezekiel 6:11	Thus says the Lord God: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
Ezekiel 7:3	Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezekiel 7:4	And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:8	Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezekiel 7:9	And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.
Ezekiel 7:20	His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
Ezekiel 8:6	And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
Ezekiel 8:9	And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”
Ezekiel 8:13	He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”
Ezekiel 8:15	Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”
Ezekiel 8:17	Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 9:4	And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
Ezekiel 11:18	And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
Ezekiel 11:21	But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 12:16	But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 14:6	“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 16:2	“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
Ezekiel 16:22	And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:25	At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
Ezekiel 16:36	Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:43	Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:47	Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Ezekiel 16:50	They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51	Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezekiel 16:52	Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:58	You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:12	oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,
Ezekiel 18:13	lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
Ezekiel 18:24	But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
Ezekiel 20:4	Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezekiel 22:2	“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:11	One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 23:36	The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezekiel 33:26	You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:29	Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.
Ezekiel 36:31	Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
Ezekiel 43:8	by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 44:6	And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations,
Ezekiel 44:7	in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
Ezekiel 44:13	They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.
Daniel 9:27	And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Daniel 11:31	Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
Daniel 12:11	And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
Zechariah 9:7	I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
Malachi 2:11	Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Matthew 24:15	“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mark 13:14	“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Luke 16:15	And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Revelation 17:4	The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
Revelation 17:5	And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”