Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Those things fit the NT church age, not the days of A4E instead.
@DavidPT I've added to this to remind you of something else that I said about it long ago:
Bear in mind that I believe that A4E is the type of the man of sin, and A4E placed an idol in the temple - but it was not destroyed because of that abomination. Once he had been ousted the temple was cleansed and rededicated to God.
I believe the only New Testament Temple is the church, and the New Testament Temple cannot be destroyed - but it can be defiled. The man of sin will himself be the idol in the temple.
Bear in mind also that Daniel 9:26 states that
the city and the sanctuary would both be destroyed. Jesus wept over Jerusalem and told the Jews that their house was going to be left to them desolate (Matthew 23:37-38). He said that to the religious leaders of the Jews. Then He departed from the temple, went down through the Kidron valley and up the hill to the top of the Mount of Olives, where He repeated to His disciples what He had just told the Jewish leaders.
That's three things to tell us that Jesus was speaking of the abominations (plural) mentioned in Daniel 9:26-27. But immediately afterward Jesus began to tell His disciples of the tribulation they would face at the hand of all nations (Matthew 24:9-14), and in this context He said to them,
"therefore, when you shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader understand) ..
The Day of Atonement comes 4 days short of 7 months after Jesus was crucified, and the Day of Atonement marks the mid-point of the seven years, i.e the 70th week of Daniel. So there is a gap then of more than 3.5 years from the time Messiah was crucified on 15 Nisan 30 A.D till the end of the 70th week.
But Daniel 9:26
stated that the city and temple would be destroyed. So to me it's far more likely that the gap between the crucifixion of Jesus and the final "3.5 years" is referring to the 40-years of Jews "wandering in the wilderness in unbelief" before the city and temple were destroyed.
But I can't
both believe that the woman in the wilderness for 3.5 years (Revelation Chapter 12) refers symbolically to the 40 years between the crucifixon of Jesus and the destruction of A.D 70,
and believe that it refers to the final 3.5 years of this age - but I can believe (and do believe) that a prophecy can be fulfilled more than once because of types and antitypes - and it starts with Joseph in Egypt, whose life in so many respects makes Joseph a type of Jesus, but things do not happen in exactly the same way the second time: Jesus was not sold into slavery to an Egyptian ruler, was not falsely accused by that ruler's Gentile wife, was not locked in a dungeon in Egypt and brought out years later by Pharaoh, etc etc.
But the type and antitype teaches us that in the same way, so many prophecies (for example) prophecies referring to the destruction of Babylon, are "fulfilled" again in the destruction of the beast/nations at the close of this age, and this is why the Revelation uses the same imagery and metaphor used against Babylon - but the second fulfillment of the same prophecy does not occur in exactly the same way.
I believe they fit
both, brother, scripture thus teaching us that A4E is the biblical type of the man of sin:
The Type: Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Daniel 11
36 And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.
37 He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.
The anti-type: The man of sin
2 Thessalonians 2
3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
A4E did indeed fulfill those prophecies -
the history of it has been traced and correlated to the prophecies perfectly and without any discrepancy: Daniel 8:11; Daniel 11:31 and Daniel 12:11 are referring to the abomination of desolation that was set up in the holy place by Antiochus IV Epiphanes; but Daniel Chapter 12 is also the first part of the prophecy which is complemented (completed) by Jesus in Revelation 10 (compare Daniel 12:7 and Revelation 10:5-7, then compare the whole of Daniel Chapter 12 with Revelation Chapter 10).
The
history of A4E will be repeated at the close of this Age.
Also (this is very important):
1. The abomination of desolation (singular) set up by Antiochus IV Epiphanes did not result in
the destruction of the temple: After he was ousted by the Maccabees, the temple was cleansed, rededicated, and reconsecrated to God.
2. The abominations (plural) that were committed in Daniel 9:27
would result in the destruction of the temple.
