ABOMINATION

Abomination:  things that are disgusting, loathsome and absolutely intolerable—things unacceptable to God, things that “turn God’s stomach”.

 

Any careful reading of God’s emotional and judicial response to certain sinful actions of men, women and children in the Old Testament Histories will reveal that He counts certain sins to be more disgusting, loathsome and absolutely intolerable than others.

 

1. idolatry or idols - Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 13:14, Isaiah 44:19
2. illicit sex - Ezekiel 16:22,58, Ezekiel 22:11, Ezekiel 33:26
3. illicit marriage - Deuteronomy 24:2-4
4. male prostitution and/or other male homosexual acts, heterosexual immorality - Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 18:27-30, Leviticus 20:13
5. temple prostitution - 1Kings 14:24
6. offerings from the above - Deuteronomy 23:18
7. child sacrifice - Jeremiah 32:35
8. cross-dressing - Deuteronomy 22:5
9. cheating in the market by using rigged weights - Deuteronomy 25:13-19, Proverbs 11:1
10. dishonesty - Proverbs 12:22
11. stealing, murder, and adultery, breaking covenants - Jeremiah 7:9,10
12. usury, violent robbery, murder, oppressing the poor and needy, etc. - Ezekiel 18:10-13
13. Dishonesty -Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.  Pro. 12:22
14. Arrogant pride - Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; assuredly, he will not be unpunished. Pro. 16:5
15. Ignoring God's law - He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination.   Pro. 28:9
16. Devising evil and sowing discord -There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community. Pro. 6:16-19
17. The act of homosexuality -'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. Lev. 18:22
    In case some may decide that these sins are only listed under the Old Testament prohibitions and that somehow Jesus changed all that should take John the Apostle’s words to heart.
    And I John saw the holy city, new  Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband… But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death…. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Rev. 21
    THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. REPENT. Jesus of Nazareth