And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. 70).ĭaniel 9:27 reveals why Jews of that future time should be alert to the setting up of this detestable thing in the Temple: 3 The worship of this Satan-possessed man as God in the Temple will be more detestable to God than the Babylonian destruction of Israel’s first Temple (586 B.C.), the defilement of the Second Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes (171–165 B.C.), and the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans (A.D. (See Daniel 11:36–37 and Revelation 13:4–8.) The Hebrew language of Daniel 9:27 indicates that this activity of the Antichrist will be the pinnacle of all detestable things ever committed against the Temple in Jerusalem. Antichrist will stop this worship so that he can set himself up to be worshiped as God in Israel’s Temple. This pronouncement implies that Israel will then have a Temple with a reinstated Old Testament sacrificial system in Jerusalem. 13:12–15), it appears the detestable thing set up to stand permanently in the Temple will be an image of the Antichrist.ĭaniel 9:27, the prophetic basis of Jesus’ Matthew 24:15 statement, foretold that in the middle of the seven-year Tribulation, Antichrist will stop sacrifices and offerings. 2:4), and since an image of the Antichrist will be made for people to worship (Rev. Since the Antichrist will oppose and exalt himself “above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Th. Therefore, the “detestable thing” will be an idolatrous image set up to stand permanently in the Temple. The noun translated “abomination” is neuter, and the verb translated “standing” is perfect tense. First-century Jews called the Temple “this holy place” (Acts 6:13 21:28), indicating it was “reserved for God and his service.” 2 The Temple Solomon built in Jerusalem was that place (1 Ki. ![]() God commanded Israel to destroy all the idolatrous Canaanite worship places and to worship Him exclusively at “the place” where He would put His name and dwell (Dt. The expression “the holy place” refers to the Temple. The word translated “abomination” means “detestable thing.” It refers to “anything that must not be brought before God because it arouses his wrath” and is used in the Bible “of everything connected with idolatry.” 1 Speaking in advance to Jewish people who will live in Judea then, Jesus told them that, in light of the traumatic nature of the second half of the Tribulation, they should be alert to the event that will begin that second half: the setting up of the abomination in the holy place as foretold through Daniel the prophet (Dan. 15) with “therefore.” Thus He indicated that the next section of His discourse was an inference drawn from the characteristics of that future period. ![]() 24:15–31).Īfter Jesus described the Great Tribulation (the second half of a seven-year period called the Tribulation, vv. 7).Ĭenturies later Jesus described that identical time, also called the Great Tribulation, and told how it will begin and what will follow (Mt. God called this period “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (v. In the Old Testament God foretold an unparalleled time of trouble, characterized by birth pangs but followed by the return of scattered Jews to their homeland to serve the Lord and live in peace under a Davidic king (Jer. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble Matthew 24:15–31
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