NT Text: Revelation 22:3
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Zechariah 14:11 promises of the eschatological Jerusalem: "It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure" — and critically, "there will never again be a ban of destruction" (herem). Revelation 22:3 declares, "No longer will there be any curse" (katathema). Both texts announce the permanent removal of the curse/ban from God's city. The Hebrew herem denotes the devoted destruction that marked covenantal judgment (as in Jericho, Joshua 6); its removal signals that the era of judgment has ended. Revelation sees this as the reversal of the Genesis 3 curse: the curse on the ground (Gen 3:17), the curse of thorns and death, is finally and permanently lifted. The trajectory runs from the curse pronounced in Eden through the herem of conquest to the removal of all curse in the New Jerusalem.