Jipsah said:
That's according to Tim LaHaye, not Biblical prophecy.
[FONT=Arrus BT, Helvetica][SIZE=+1]And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the corner of the altar, desolating abominations, even until the end. Daniel 9:27[/SIZE][/FONT]
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BTW - I base MY DOCTRINE on the Holy Word of God, not Tim LaHaye, thank you very much!!
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Christ warned, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:...For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved (Matthew 24:15-22). Obviously, the setting up of the abomination of desolation is the one most important event signaling the beginning of the Great Tribulation! But what is it? Where is it to be set up? Who, or what, does it represent? When will we see it in place? Matthew warned, Whoso readeth, let him understand, so God intends we should understand what Christ meant not be ignorant of one of the most important events in future history.
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C[/SIZE]hrists strange warning about an abomination of desolation means, literally, the abomination of the desolater, which all authorities generally agree meant an idol, or idolatrous apparatus, to be set up in the holy place by the individual who would destroy Jerusalem, or cause it to become desolate.
An abomination is something God detests, and comes from the Hebrew word shakaz, for an idol; something, or someone who is worshiped in place of the true God.
Christ specifically stated He was referring to the same thing written in the book of Daniel. Daniels prophecy mentions this abomination several times: Daniel 9:27; 11:31 and 12:2 are examples. These scriptures identify, in symbol, the perpetrator.
Of Daniels prophecy, Kitto says, This appears to have been a prediction of the pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, who caused an idolatrous altar to be built on the altar of burnt offerings, whereon unclean things were offered to Jupiter Olympius, to whom the temple itself was dedicated (Encyclopedia of Biblical Literature, John Kitto, Vol. 1, p. 22).
Daniel wrote of a little horn coming up among the ten horns of the beast a symbol of a government, or ruler, who succeeds in overthrowing three successive kings, then holds sway over the final seven heads of the Holy Roman Empire. We shall see much more of this little horn later in this article.
Of the abomination of desolation and the one who puts it in place, Daniel wrote, Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down (Daniel 8:11).
The Critical and Experimental Commentary says, Though robbed of its treasures, it was not strictly cast down by Antiochus; so that a fuller accomplishment is future. Antiochus took away the daily sacrifice for a few years; the Romans, for many ages, and cast down the temple; and Antichrist, in connection with Rome, the fourth kingdom, shall do so again, after the Jews in their own land, still unbelieving, shall have rebuilt the temple and restored the Mosaic ritual (Faussett, Vol. 4, p. 427, emphasis mine).
Obviously, since Antiochus reigned hundreds of years before Christ, his desecration of the temple was only a forerunner of Daniels prophecy, which is referring to the time of the end (Daniel 12:4-11).
A second forerunner of this prophesied event took place shortly after Christs warning prophecy of Matthew 24:15, at the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
This may with probability be referred to the advance of the Roman army against the city with their image-crowned standards, to which idolatrous honours were paid, and which the Jews regarded as idols. The unexpected retreat and discomfiture of the Roman forces afforded such as were mindful of our Saviours prophecy an opportunity of obeying the injunction which it contained, (i.e., Christs warning {Mat. 24:16} that they should flee to the mountains.) (Kitto, Vol. 1, pp. 22, 23).
There was another later and more specific abomination of the holy place accomplished by emperor Hadrian, who with ...studied insult to the Jews, set up the figure of a boar over the Bethlehem gate of the city which rose upon the site and ruins of Jerusalem (Euseb. Chron., 1, i. p. 45, ed. 1658), but he erected a temple to Jupiter upon the site of the Jewish temple and caused an image of himself to be set up in the part which answered to the most holy place (ibid., Vol. 1, p. 23).
These abominations, which took place over a vast span of time in history, are not the fulfillment of Christs end-time prophecy! Notice again the time setting of Christs Olivet prophecy:
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation...stand in the holy place...then let them which be in Jerusalem flee into the mountains...for then shall be GREAT TRIBULATION such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened [by Divine intervention Gods heavenly signs, plagues, and the Second Coming of Christ], there should no flesh be saved [alive], but for the elects sake, those days shall be shortened (Matthew 24:15-22).
The warning concerning the final abomination to be set up in the holy place is directly connected to the beginning of the great tribulation, which has as one of its main features the horrible martyrdom of saints (Daniel 7:20-21; Matthew 24:9).
Notice! All these are be beginning of sorrows [tribulation].
