What do you think the abomination of desolation is or will be?
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The book of Daniel says.
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I’m wondering if it isn’t Trump or his family. Probably not because the temple isn’t rebuilt.
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PineApple on pizza.
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Cats
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We don’t have to wonder Jesus was pointing to a future event, but it had already happened when Antiochus Epiphanes IV entered the Holy of Hollies and desecrated the Temple. They are to watch for someone to do the same type of thing in the Holiest of Hollies, in 70 ad nothing like Epiphanes desecration happened, so it is still yet future.
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Sometimes I think it’s a nuclear weapon. It could have something to do with computers.
Something abominable that causes desolation in general… (Guns and other weapons is my closest guess!)
Standing in a place it ought not be… hmm.
I did see a hub in church a couple of months ago…
Could THAT be it!
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It will be the antichrist saying he is God incarnate
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You know what else guys? I REALLY don’t think the physical temples of the past are the ones we’re looking at from His ascension to His return.
Remember when Christ said -if you destroy this temple, He will raise it in 3 days? He was talking about His body. Then WE are told that OUR BODIES are now the temple of God…
Then you all have to know that neuroscience is TRYING to read MINDS right now.
Then we’ve got these microchips they want to put inside our heads and right hands…
CLUES!
Beware of ANYONE telling you that ALL prophesy has been fulfilled when the church is STILL here.
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Foretypes are foretypes. Fulfillment is yet future. Those with the “Antiochus Epiphanes IV foretype mental lock” are overlooking the statement that Jesus predicted it as a future event in Matthew 24:15. The Antichrist (whom Paul calls the man of sin in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4) after making a seven year treaty with the Jews to allow animal sacrifices, will have great power for three and a half years. Except there are two flies in his ointment. There are two prophets, two witnesses preaching and doing miracles which oppose him (Revelation 11). There is absolutely nothing he can do to stop them for the first three and a half years of the seven years. THEN, God allows the Antichrist to kill those two prophets. The whole world will see the video on their smart phones, tablets, or eye monitors. The world rejoices and sends gifts to each other. It’s like Christmas in July. Seriously, read Revelation 11:3-13. At the height of his popularity, it is then (I admittedly surmise) that the Antichrist will march into the Jewish temple and reveal his true nature. He proclaims himself as God and sits where only God is allowed to sit: on the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant situated behind a curtain in the holy of holies. He demands worship. Then he places an animated image of himself in that place for people to worship in his absense. The two prophets are resurrected on live TV but their ascension to heaven will be dismissed as their “removal” for their supposed wrongdoings. This act by the Antichrist is “the straw that breaks the camel’s back” so to speak, for God. God has finally had enough. His mercy has finally expired; wrath must now prevail. The antichrist’s abomination of claiming to be God with a vast majority approval will bring God’s desolation in the form of 3.5 years of terrible judgments. This “abomination of desolation” will launch the great tribulation.
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Read Luke 21:20 on what this is
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it is the mosque setting on the temple mount
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It happened while the Apostles were still alive. Matthew 24:15.
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It was fullfilled in the first century.
The Roman ensigns were crafted images or depictions of Zeus, Rome and Caesar. One such ensign was the Imago which was a graven image of Emperor Vespasian.20 In Josephus’ quote above one can see that the Romans worshipped Rome and the image of the Emperor Vespasian by offering abominable sacrifices to these ensigns in the holy Temple.
Furthermore, during this blasphemous worship, Caesar Titus was declared imperator. And according to Suetonius, many of his subordinates wanted to crown him emperor.22 At this time it is likely that Titus would have received all the divine accolades and ceremonial worship often directed toward the Emperor Vespasian in the imperial cult. Thus while the ensigns were being worshipped it is likely that Titus would have also similarly been worshipped during this celebration as the worship of Rome and its emperor was customary in the imperial cult at that time in fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians 2:4: “He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
As indicated by Josephus, the Romans offered sacrifices to these ensigns on the eastern gate of the Temple. The fact that these sacrifices were performed on this wing of the Temple is not a coincidence. According to Ezekiel 46:1-12, the prince of Judah was to enter the eastern gate of the Temple to offer sacrifices on the Sabbath and New Moon festivals. This prophetic custom has Messianic undertones. And therefore, while performing these sacrifices, the prince acts as a type of Messiah. The fact that Titus also offered sacrifices on the eastern gate of the Temple is a seemingly intentional expression that he is the new prince of Israel. This is a fitting title for Titus who is the firstborn son of the Roman emperor and the one directly responsible for once again subjugating the province of Israel under Roman authority. Therefore, Titus, the prince of Rome, was quite literally the prince of Israel as well. Interestingly, as added proof that Prince Titus is the intended fulfillment of this prophecy, the New American Standard Bible which prides itself on being a strictly literal translation of the Bible translates v. 26 slightly differently. In this translation, v. 26 reads, “[T]he people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.” The regal implications of this ceremony do not end there. During this blasphemous worship, Titus was declared imperator by his army who allegedly even wanted to make him the new emperor of Rome.
As predicted in v. 27, this day marked the end of Temple sacrifice. With the holy place on fire, never again would the Jewish people offer sacrifices to the Lord. Then in fulfillment of v. 26, Caesar ordered that Jerusalem and its temple be destroyed. As a result, the city was left desolate and its temple completely demolished even down to the foundation.23 The destruction of the Temple fulfilled the last prophetic stipulations of the Law, marking the end of Biblical Judaism while simultaneously giving birth to two new world religions: Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.
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Question: “What is the abomination of desolation?”
Answer: The phrase “abomination of desolation” refers to Matthew 24:15 (KJV): “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand.” This is referring to Daniel 9:27, “He will confirm a covenant with many for one ’seven.’ In the middle of the ’seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” In 167 B.C. a Greek ruler by the name of Antiochus Epiphanies set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offerings in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is known as the abomination of desolation.
In Matthew 24:15, Jesus was speaking some 200 years after the abomination of desolation described above had already occurred. So, Jesus must have been prophesying that some time in the future another abomination of desolation would occur in a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Most Bible prophecy interpreters believe that Jesus was referring to the Antichrist who will do something very similar to what Antiochus Epiphanies did. This is confirmed by the fact that some of what Daniel prophesied in Daniel 9:27 did not occur in 167 B.C. with Antiochus Epiphanies. Antiochus did not confirm a covenant with Israel for seven years. It is the Antichrist who, in the end times, will establish a covenant with Israel for seven years and then break it by doing something similar to the abomination of desolation in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
Whatever the future abomination of desolation is, it will leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the one perpetrating it is the person known as the Antichrist. Revelation 13:14 describes him making some kind of image which all are forced to worship. Turning the temple of the living God into a place of worship for the Antichrist is truly an “abomination.” Those who are alive and remain during the tribulation should be watchful and recognize that this event is the beginning of 3 1/2 years of the worst of the tribulation period and that the return of the Lord Jesus is imminent. “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).
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It was the slaughter of swine in Herods Temple that was destroyed in AD 70
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This is an eschatology question
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2 Th 2:3-4
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The coronavirus?
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The Antichrist to come.
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The papacy
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Matthew is referring to Daniel 9:27, “He will confirm a covenant with many for one ’seven.’ In the middle of the ’seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” In 167 B.C. a Greek ruler by the name of Antiochus Epiphanies set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offerings in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is known as the abomination of desolation.
In Matthew 24:15, Jesus was speaking some 200 years after the abomination of desolation described above had already occurred. So, Jesus must have been prophesying that some time in the future another abomination of desolation would occur in a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Most Bible prophecy interpreters believe that Jesus was referring to the Antichrist who will do something very similar to what Antiochus Epiphanies did. This is confirmed by the fact that some of what Daniel prophesied in Daniel 9:27 did not occur in 167 B.C. with Antiochus Epiphanies. Antiochus did not confirm a covenant with Israel for seven years. It is the Antichrist who, in the end times, will establish a covenant with Israel for seven years and then break it by doing something similar to the abomination of desolation in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
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Rebirth of the Nephalim. Perhaps like Kahn,
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the dome of the rock
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We don’t have to wonder Jesus was pointing to a future event, but it had already happened when Antiochus Epiphanes IV entered the Holy of Hollies and desecrated the Temple. They are to watch for someone to do the same type of thing in the Holiest of Hollies, in 70 ad nothing like Epiphanes desecration happened, so it is still yet future.
It will be the antichrist who will enter the still future Temple in Holy of Hollies desecrating it. -
Some kind of idolatry. Worshipping something man-made instead of God
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The Anti-christ
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It already occured in the 1st century with the destruction of the temple by the Romans. It was future to them, but not future to us. Read Luke 21 which is a parallel to Mark 13 and Matt. 24. Jerusalem was to surrounded by armies and they were. Its very interesting when you read the wars of the Jews by Josephus. It like reading revelation. Remember Jesus was talking “TO THEM” that they would see these things in their lifetime, and they did.
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The grievous works and blasphemy of the Antichrist….
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I think the abomination of desolation has already happened prior to AD70 for two reasons.
Firstly, yes Matthew and Mark use the phrase “abomination of desolation”, but the parallel verse in Luke is Luke 21:20. Instead of “when you see the abomination of desolation”, he just writes, “when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies”. So abomination of desolation = Jerusalem surrounded by armies. It doesn’t say anything about an antichrist.
Secondly, Jesus Himself said that His generation would not pass away until all these things take place (Mark 13:30; Matt 24:34; Luke 21:32). And that’s what happened! Around AD66, Roman armies did surround Jerusalem, the Jewish-Roman then began (the great tribulation) followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in AD70 (which Jesus said would happen: Mark 13:2; Matt 24:2; Luke 21:6). I think it’s all been fulfilled, and Jesus said it would be ?
Hope that helps
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I know that it is the Islamic mosque setting on the temple mount
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Now, then, after these visions, He showed him just where the nations would be standing. He showed him how that there were so many years depended yet on the Jews. He said, “The Messiah shall come. He’ll prophesy in the seventy of weeks, which is three and a half years. In the midst of it, He’ll be cut off, which is seven years. Seventy weeks is determined for thy people; seven years of prophesy to the Jews.” He said, “And Messiah, the Prince, shall come and prophecy. In the midst of the seven weeks, seven days, will It be cut off. In the abomination, maketh desolations, will stand in Its place. And they will tread down the walls of Jerusalem, Gentiles, for a time, time, and dividing of time.” 85 Now, when Messiah come, Jesus, He preached exactly three and a half years, and was cut off, for a Sacrifice. The daily obligation was taken away. And the desolate, the abomination that maketh desolation, the moslem of Omar, was stood today in the place of the holy temple. The mosque of Omar stands exactly where the temple stood.
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Jesus, even, speaking of it here, underlined it. Said, “When you see the abomination that maketh desolation, spoken by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place.” [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit three times—Ed.] What is that? The mosque of Omar, stood in the place of the temple when they burned it down. Said, “Let them that’s in the mountains…Let them that’s on the housetop, don’t come down to take things out of the house, or him that’s in the field return back. For there will be a time of trouble!” You see? And all these things would take place, moved them on down now and vindicate it, back to this opening of the Sixth Seal. 189 Now I want you to notice. Jesus…Now, about tomorrow night, on This, Jesus omitted the teaching of the Seventh Seal. It’s not here. Watch, He goes right on with parables now, after that. And John omitted the Seventh Seal. The Seventh, last, the Seventh Seal, that’s going to be a great thing. It’s not even written, see. Omitted the Seventh Seal; both of them did. And the revelator, when God just said there was…John said, “There was just silence in Heaven.” Jesus never said a word about It.
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