The Abomination of Desolation:
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, [1] spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not[2], (let him that readeth understand,) [3] then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: (Mar 13:14 KJV)
Our translations obscure the difference in Greek, Jesus’ words match the Septuagint in Daniel 12:11, but not Daniel 11:31:
BYZ Mark 13:14 τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως
BYZ Matthew 24:15 τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως
LXT Daniel 11:31 βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
LXT Daniel 12:11 τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως
BHT Daniel 11:31 haššiqqûc müšômëm
BHT Daniel 12:11 šiqqûc šömëm
Jesus prayer “Let him that readeth understand” is to open the reader’s understanding that “the abomination of desolation” in Dan. 12:11 not be confused with an “abomination of desolation” in Daniel 11:31.
In context the abomination of desolation in Daniel 11:31 is an image that has dual fulfillment in both Antiochus and Antichrist, but in Daniel 12:11 the Antichrist himself is the Abomination of Desolation.
Part. שׁוֹמֵם the desolator (i.e. Antiochus Epiphanes [?]), Dan. 9:27. הַפֶּשַׁע שׁוֹמֵם (for פֶּשַׁע הַשּׁ׳), ibid. Dan. 8:13, the sin of the desolator, and שִׁקּוּץ שֹׁמֵם abomination of the desolator, Dan. 12:11.-Gesenius’ Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon To The Old Testament Scriptures (p. 835). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
And from the time when the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination of the destroyer set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NOY)
The Desolator appears in the church as the “man of sin” “false Christ” (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Dan. 9:27) which starts the end time clock. The Church’s Daily Sacrifice of praise to God ends when it receives the False Christ as Christ (Dan. 12:11). At “mid-week” or 3.5 years, 1,260 days, the “man of sin” morphs into the “son of destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) and he ends all global sacrifice not to him, which leaves him 42 months until Armageddon (Dan. 9:27; 12:7; Rev. 13:5; 19:20). It requires 30 days to fully set up the abomination of desolation made in his “image”, an AI interfaced with the Antichrist; then “network-image” is given life (Rev. 13:15) and the 666 membership only global economy is fully set up, at 1,290 days (Dan. 12:11).
Fallen Angel technology is fully evident in the abomination that the False Prophet (Britain-America) put into the Beast’s service. Since Roswell Satan has seeded fallen angel technology into the black ops programs of the Anglo-American Beast through the ruse of crashed UFO ships that were piloted by plant based drones of Satan’s creation (comp. Ex. 7:11-12)
In Hebrew Dan 11:31 refers to a detestable idol (haššiqqûc müšômëm) causing desolation (Jer. 44:22), the second refers to “the abominable Desolator” (šiqqûc šömëm) in a state of desolation (Dan. 9:27) and who leads all who follow him into complete desolation. Because Desolator Adonikam “sets up” an image of himself it too is an abomination of desolation (Dan. 12:11).
This unity of Antichrist with his image explains the wording that implies both a person and a thing (Compare “Kings…Kingdoms” Dan. 7:17, 23; “Mountains…Kings” Rev. 17:9-10):
Even though the word βδέλυγμα ‘abomination’ is a neuter noun that would normally be referred to as ‘it’, the following participle ἑστηκότα ‘having stood’ is masculine, suggesting that the abomination refers to a person [EBC]. Some take the following third person active verb δεῖ ‘should’ as also being masculine: ‘where he should not be’ [AB1, AB2, BECNT, BNTC, NCBC, NICNT, NIGTC NTC, WBC; ESV, NLT, REB, TEV]. Others refer to the neuter gender of the noun ‘abomination: ‘where it should not be’ [BNTC, Lns; CEV, GW, KJV, NASB, NCV, NET, NIV, NRSV].-Blight, R. C. (2014). An Exegetical Summary of Mark 9–16 (p. 224). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
All who accept the Mark of the image of the Beast (the AI network controlling the global economy Rev. 13:14-17) will be desolated by God (Rev. 14:9-11), and in the end the Desolator himself desolated at Armageddon (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 19:20).[2]
The betrayer Judas is called “the son of destruction” (ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας Jn. 17:12) as is the “Man of Sin” False Christ (2Th. 2:3) betraying Christianity adopting the “scientific atheism” of the fallen angels who appear on earth claiming to be extraterrestrials (Rev. 12:7-9).
“Son of” is Hebrew idiom for someone who embodies the characteristics of a class to which they belong. However, in this case I believe “Son of Destruction” implies Adonikam is truely a child of Satan, a human-Elohim hybrid with Satan’s DNA, literally of “Satan’s seed” Gen. 3:15. As the “woman’s seed” is literally Christ, the “seed” warring against him Antichrist.
The Anglo-American two horned beast (formerly Christian liberty loving free market economies) now support the tyranny of the Beast and centrally planned markets. Their black operations with fallen angel technology enable the Beast rain fire down upon his enemies from a “flying wing” powered by abominable Satanic energy (Dan. 8:10-11, 23-24; 11:36-39. Rev. 13:11-17):
And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator (šömëm).” (Dan. 9:27 ESV)
“on the wings of abomination he comes desolating.” עַל כָּנָף can, without ingenuity, be rendered in no other way than on wings. שִׁקּוּצִים signifies not acts of abomination, but objects of abomination… But from such passages as Deut. 32:11, Ex. 19:4, and Ps. 18:11, we perceive the sense in which wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, the idolatrous objects. In the first of these passages (Deut. 32:11), wings, the wings of an eagle, are attributed to God, because He is the power which raises up Israel, and lifting it up, and carrying it throughout its history, guides it over the earth. In P. 18 wings are attributed to the wind, because the wind is contemplated as the power which carries out the will of God throughout the kingdom of nature. “Thus in this passage wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, idol-objects, and to idolatry with its abominations, because that shall be the power which lifts upwards the destroyer and desolater, carries him, and moves with him over the earth to lay waste” (Klief[othm T.]) -Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (2002). Commentary on the Old Testament [1866 first edition]. (Da 9:27). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.
Part. שׁוֹמֵם the desolator…Dan. 9:27. הַפֶּשַׁע שׁוֹמֵם (for פֶּשַׁע הַשּׁ׳), ibid. Dan. 8:13, the sin of the desolator, and שִׁקּוּץ שֹׁמֵם abomination of the desolator, Dan. 12:11, i.q. βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως, 1 Macc. 1:54; 6:7 (either the altar or the idol which Antiochus caused to be erected over the altar of the temple at Jerusalem.) [But see, Matt. 24:14, as to the “abomination of desolation,” as something even then unfulfilled].-Gesenius, W., & Tregelles, S. P. (2003). Gesenius’ Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon To The Old Testament Scriptures (p. 835). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
The “Desolate One” aka the “Son of Destruction” is the Judas False Christ “man of sin”. At 1,260 days (Dan. 9:27; 12:7. 2Th. 2:3-4. Rev. 13:5). Chancellor Adonikam begins ruling as Emperor of the Babylonian Roman Beast (Rev. 13:1-2) boasting he is the “Seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) “Son of Destruction” Antichrist (Rev. 13:5 6. Dan. 7:8, 25; 9:27; 11:36-39).
Just as God permitted the magicians deceive Pharaoh he could resist God (Exod. 7:11-13) so God stops restraining spiritism (2Th. 2:7-12) and it inwardly induces the strong delusion God and His angels can be defeated (Rev. 16:13-14, 16). Just as spiritism caused Pharaoh to harden his own heart, so those who dwell on the earth will believe they can defeat God at Armageddon. The temporary sacrifice of a few angels cements that delusion:
It grew so big it reached the army of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars to the ground, where it trampled them. (Dan. 8:10 NET)
END NOTES
[1]
βδέλυγμα, ατος, τό… gener. someth. that causes revulsion or extreme disgust, a ‘loathsome, detestable thing’, in our lit. in ref. to what is detested by God.
① someth. disgusting that arouses wrath, loathsome thing B 2:5 (Is 1:13) =‘I loathe incense’. β. ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ detestable in the sight of God (cp. Pr 11:1) Lk 16:15.—As in the OT (e.g. Dt 29:16; 3 Km 11:6, 33; 4 Km 23:13; 2 Ch 28:3) of everything connected w. polytheistic cult: (w. ἀκάθαρτα; cp. Pr 17:15) Rv 17:4f. ποιεῖν β. καὶ ψεῦδος practice someth. foul or false 21:27 (cp. REB).
② someth. that is totally defiling, abomination, pollutant the phrase τὸ β. τῆς ἐρημώσεως appears to refer to someth. that is abhorred because it defiles a sacred place and causes it to be left desolate Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14 (τὸ β. ἑστηκότα is a ‘constructio ad sensum’, as Appian, Bell. Civ. 4, 48 §205 τὸ γύναιον … φέρουσα) is taken fr. Da (9:27; 11:31; 12:11), whence 1 Macc (1:54) had also taken it; β. τ. ἐρ. (cp. the similar gen. β. ἀνομίας Sir 49:2) is prob. the desolating sacrilege (NRSV) of the holy place; some interpret it as denoting the Antichrist.-Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 172). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ἐρήμωσις, εως, ἡ state of being made uninhabitable, devastation, destruction, depopulation (s. prec. four entries; Arrian, Anab. 1, 9, 7; 5, 1, 5; Cat. Cod. Astr. VIII/3 p. 136, 25 τόπων ἐνδόξων ἐρημώσεις; LXX; En 98:3;TestLevi 17:10; ParJer; JosAs 11 cod. A [p. 54, 13 Bat.]; Jos., Ant. 12, 322; Just.) of Jerusalem Lk 21:20.-Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 392). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
So detestable the person or place is desolate of God’s presence and results in desolation by God (Ezek. 8:5-6, 17-18).
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standing where it ought not, the church being the Temple of God in the New Testament
Jesus predicted the Temple would be destroyed and never hinting that state of desolation would be reversed in the end time (Mk. 13:1-4. Mt. 24:1-3). Pharisee Paul (Acts 23:6) would call the literal temple the dwelling (naos) of God, the apostle Paul never does so (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21).
In the New Testament Christians are Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). We offer up “the Daily Sacrifice”::
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ
We do this taking up Christ’s cross daily (Lk. 9:23) therefore our sacrifice and service are continual:
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ
The “Man of Sin” morphs stands up as the Beast “son of Destruction” at 1,260 days. Thirty days later the AI network the world built in his image to manage their economies is “set up”:
“And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up (05414 נָתַן nathan), there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NKJ)
And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. (Rev. 13:14 NKJ)
[3]
Jesus inserted the parenthetical (“let him that readeth [Daniel] understand”). Readers in the End Time are to critically consider why Daniel himself didn’t understand his own prophecy. The most likely reason is words gained new meaning he was unaware of.
Daniel knew all about “holy” (06944 קֹדֶשׁ qodesh) “people” (05971 עַם `am), the “Daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd), the “abomination” (08251 שִׁקּוּץ shiqquwts) of “Desolation” (08074 שָׁמֵם shamem) are things he fully understood. Yet Daniel says: ” Although I heard, I did not understand” (Dan. 12:8):
7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
This has great ramifications. If these words are still sealed, interpretation of Daniel, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, 2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 11-13 are also sealed.
Christianity introduced things unknown to Daniel that gave temple imagery a NT Church application, and I treat that in the next paragraph. But its likely the astonishment Daniel experienced wasn’t just because these words no longer referred to familiar objects. His words imply the totality of the vision was completely strange. He went to others begging, and none understood:
And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it. (Dan. 8:27 NKJ)
I believe he saw Adonikam, Dragon and False prophet, and the “ships” of the “Elohim Designers” persecuting the Christian Church and it left him speechless. The words are sealed until end time events make their meaning plain. Antiochus is not in Daniel, our LORD never said the Temple would be rebuilt after its total destruction. The eisegis of many has obscured the meaning of the sealed words.. The “little horn” is the Antichrist, and from Daniel 11:21 on what He does is detailed precisely. This will become so easily seen by the end time generation it will be a major “apologetic argument” against the strong delusion of the Designers, their lie YHWH is an ET like themselves. It will be obvious to all God’s children, only infinite God could predict in such precise detail centuries ago, what the Antichrist is doing in the End Time. Daniel 7-12 will read like current events.
The words in his prophecy have a different application. The church was now the Temple of God, believers in Christ its priests. The Daily Sacrifice their taking up the cross of Christ Daily. Therefore, the abomination of desolation Daniel saw rising up in the church, was unlike what he saw Antiochus erect (Dan. 11:31) in the Temple. Christ is viewing events from the 1st century to the end time, and therefore cautions readers in the future understand the new reality brought about by the New Covenant.
As Christ fulfilled the law the “continual” [08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd] sacrifice (ἡ θυσία δι παντoς, LXX) is now a function of Christ’s ministry. Confirming this, the apostles apply Old Testament Temple imagery to the Church, calling it “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). We offer up “the Daily Sacrifice”::
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ
As we take up Christ’s cross daily (Lk. 9:23) our sacrifice and service are continual:
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ
We have the “interpretive keys” (the New Covenant) to understand Daniel’s Prophecy, that he did not. Events unsealed the words just as the angel said.
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