..., there was not the AOD, spoken by the prophet Daniel. The AOD wasn't the destruction of the Temple, it's the AC sitting in the Temple proclaiming himself god. See 2nd Thessalonians 2
I trust
Luke 21:20's interpretation of what Daniel's "abomination of desolation" was. Luke called the AOD "
Jerusalem surrounded by armies". Armies typically desolate any environment they come against. This happened once in Daniel 11:31 under Antiochus Epiphanes and the "
arms that stood on his part" that "
polluted the sanctuary of strength" (the Temple) by the desolating actions they committed while in Jerusalem.
Armies (plural) came to surround Jerusalem again in
AD 66, both the Roman and Zealot armies (plural). Both of these armies "stood where they ought not", with some of the competing Zealot army factions invading their own temple to supply what they needed to wage war against each other and against the Roman army, and the Roman army making contact with the Temple wall in their attempt to tunnel underneath it.
Continual, "overspreading" desolations, especially by the
civil war between the Zealot factions within Jerusalem, Daniel said were "determined" to last during and
until the end of that war in AD 70 (Daniel 9:26).
The single AC or "Man of Lawlessness" was only one of "many antichrists" that had already gone out from among those whom John was addressing in 1 John 2:18-19. This individual was named Menahem, who got into the Temple in AD 66, presenting himself as the "King of the Jews" in Herod's royal robes of state stolen from Masada. He only lasted a couple of weeks until the "brightness of his coming" into power was destroyed along with himself and all his soldiers. For Menahem to claim the "King of the Jews" title was to be an imposter claiming to be Daniel's prophesied Messiah of Israel - a title that only Jesus was allowed to have. Menahem "exalted himself" over every other Messiah claimant who was attempting to be called God / the Messiah, but his self-exaltation was brief indeed.
If the ECF were still looking for this single Antichrist to arise, then they missed the past fulfillment in AD 66, as has anyone else today who thinks this single individual has not come yet.
There was no Beast with a "fatal head wound" & FP making people take the "mark" in 70 AD.
You're right - the "wound" was
not in AD 70. That "wound" to the single head of the Sea Beast was geographical damage to a
literal mountain which that Roman Sea Beast sat upon. This serious, almost fatal damage to the city of Rome took place in the devastating AD 64 fire at Rome, after which that "wound" was healed. Nero immediately began a massive rebuilding program for the city of Rome of marvelous design and splendor, including his own "Golden House" with the almost 100' Colossus of Nero built of bronze.
As for the False Prophet imposing that "mark" in honor of the Sea Beast, this mark was a duplicate of the pagan Tyrian shekel with abominable images and inscriptions. The Jewish religious leadership (the FP) forced anyone coming to the Temple to use this duplicated Tyrian shekel minted in Jerusalem for buying and selling items for Temple worship
from 19 BC until AD 66, when the Zealots did away with the Tyrian shekel and began minting their own currency
. The moneychangers raked in vast profits from fees charged for every coin exchange made in the Temple. This had made the Temple a "den of thieves" as Christ called it.
Do you separate Matthew from Revelation ?
Which part of Matthew separated from which part of Revelation? Revelation has some ancient history included in it, to give a proper background setting for the events that were beginning to unfold in that generation. Are you speaking of Matthew 24 specifically? That is all revealed in Revelation as being presently "at hand" for that generation, including Christ's second coming in AD 70, and the NHNE which are present conditions.
