Dictionary of Bible Themes The final ending and elimination of practices or states of affairs. Scripture looks forward to God's final abolition of the present order, through the inauguration of the new Jerusalem. Hosea 2:18Things to be abolished in the kingdom of God See also War and destruction Psalms 46:9-10Isaiah 9:5 Zechariah 9:10 Exodus 23:25-26 See also Illness and suffering Exodus 15:26Deuteronomy 7:15 Isaiah 53:4 Matthew 8:16-17 pp Mk 1:32-34 Romans 6:6pp Lk 4:40-41 See also Sin Ezekiel 36:25-26Romans 8:3-4 Hebrews 9:26 God speaks here of his abolition of sinful, human hard-heartedness 1 Corinthians 15:24-26Revelation 21:1-4 Death and mourning See also Isaiah 25:7-8; 65:17-201 Corinthians 15:54-55 2 Timothy 1:10 Revelation 20:13-14 Exodus 23:24 The abolition of idolatry in Israel See also Israel was commanded to abolish Canaanite worship Exodus 34:13Numbers 33:50-52 Deuteronomy 12:2-3 Deuteronomy 18:9-12 1 Samuel 28:3-9 The abolition of mediums and spiritists 2 Kings 23:241 Kings 15:11-13 In Asa's reign 2 Kings 18:4pp 2Ch 14:2-3 In Hezekiah's reign 2 Kings 23:4-20pp 2Ch 31:1 In Josiah's reign pp 2Ch 34:3-7 pp 2Ch 34:33 Daniel 11:31The abolition of the temple Sacrifice in the temple abolished See also Daniel 12:11Antiochus Epiphanes abolished the daily sacrifice in the temple in 168 B.C., thereby attacking the symbolic centre of Israel's life. Matthew 26:61Jesus Christ was accused of seeking to abolish the temple See also Matthew 21:12-13pp Mk 14:58 pp Mk 11:15-17 Matthew 27:39-40pp Lk 19:45-46 Jesus Christ's action may have been understood as a symbolic abolition of a defiled sacrificial system Acts 6:14pp Mk 15:29-30 Revelation 21:22The final abolition of the temple in the new Jerusalem Matthew 5:17-19Abolition and the law See also The law has not been abolished Romans 3:31Colossians 2:13-14 See also The law has been abolished as an instrument of condemnation 2 Corinthians 3:6-17Ephesians 2:14-16 Hebrews 10:1-10 Galatians 3:17-18 The law does not abolish God's promises See also Romans 4:14God did not abolish his promise of righteousness to Abraham when he gave the law, because the promise was not conditional upon keeping the law but is received by faith. Galatians 5:11The offence of the cross is abolished by accepting circumcision See also 1 Corinthians 1:22-24; 2:2Jews found offensive the Christians' claim that salvation did not come through keeping the law, but instead through faith in a crucified Messiah, whom the law had cursed. Paul regarded "the offence of the cross" as central to the gospel, and refused to make salvation conditional upon circumcision and obedience to the law. Galatians 3:13; 5:2; 6:14-15See also 4180 seraphim5297 disease 5333 healing 5375 law 7334 circumcision 7374 high places 7466 temples 8768 idolatry 9020 death 9115 antichrist, the 9160 new heavens & new earth |
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