Since Jesus was the real Temple of God, I agree with your comment.
What I find interesting is that neither you nor anyone else here is complaining about how Herod placed an eagle and other idols and abominations at Herod's Temple:
This was done with impeccable timing with regards to Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy. Where is the outrage? It's crickets around here.
Ah yes, the presumptuous, judgmental
"I will pray for you" passive aggressive insult that the world is so tired of. Thanks, this thread would not be complete without it.
Your complaint is with Gabriel and Daniel as they wrote the prophecies that way. I'm pretty sure that placing a crown of thorns and other abominable things onto Jesus was not meant to be a compliment.
The Woman represents all the moms who carried Her Seed, which was nourished for 1260 years until his birth. You people are so blind.
Did anyone ever teach you what the Israelites were nourishing for said 1260 years?
You think God is ignorant? Is God so stupid that he is not able to encode advanced biological and genetic information into Scripture? Do you believe that the Bible was authored by goat herding simpletons?
If you and everyone else here actually BELIEVED that the Temples were literal, you all would change your tune so fast as if someone extremely important just walked into the room to teach you something monumentally profound and sacred. You would sit up straight and put on your best behavior in an instance. Instead, you let your pride and arrogance blind you into dismissing it all as 'blasphemy'.
Am I casting pearls to swine? You folks better get your act together before shooting your mouths off at what I am presenting here. You need to understand what the Day of Atonement REALLY was about. Study the Lulav and its various components. Study Sukkot. It is all about human physiology. There is a reason for it that most of you will never know, sadly. They were being trained to minister and take care of PRECIOUS LIFE. You know, the Kingdom of God?
Do you have any idea that a Zygote is planned out ahead of time by God's Ministers? How are you supposed to take care of the Temple of God if you have no idea what it is or what you are even doing? Everyone around here acts so tough, yet they know NOTHING about the Kingdom.
You people are still on the milk. Advanced concepts regarding the Meat of the Word are way out of your reach unfortunately.
@Douggg . Do you ever create other graphics besides charts?
The symbols used in Genesis of the sun and moon and the other 11 stars which Joseph saw in his dream (Genesis 37:9-10) is the same metaphor used in Revelation 12:1
Seems like you are the one around here who has been drinking mother's-milk and enjoying a life full enough of leisure to allow enough time for your imagination to run wild. Which is also why you're so keen to insult the intelligence of all who disagree with you.
You have very little understanding of scripture and have shook up a milk-shake for yourself. If any of the above nonsense is true, it would be in the Bible because the prophets, Jesus and the apostles would all have taught it.
The temple that was destroyed in 70 AD was no more a holy place
from the time the veil in the temple was torn in two when they put God's real temple to death, than a Hindu shrine. Nothing that occurred in that temple would constitute an abomination of desolation.
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"'Abomination of Desolation' is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made." (
Abomination of desolation - Wikipedia)
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Not destroyed: the abomination of desolation set up in the holy place of the 2nd temple by Antiochus IV, "Epiphanes" in 167 BC (Daniel 8:11; Daniel 11:31; and Daniel 12:11-12),
is not associated with the destruction of either the city of Jerusalem, or of the temple in it, but:
Destroyed: The text of Daniel 9:26-27 associates the destruction of the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (the temple) with
abominations. Those abominations were in the form of continued sacrifices for sins.
As Jesus' audience on the Mount of Olives well knew, the temple was cleansed after Antiochus IV Epiphanes was ousted, and the daily sacrifices were resumed (the Jewish annual celebration of Hanukkah is based on this history, and was celebrated even by Jesus).
The text of Daniel 8:11; Daniel 11:31; and Daniel 12:11-12 links all three passages to:-
(a) daily sacrifices for sin being removed (which is what occurred in the 2nd temple in the days of Antiochus IV); and
(b) an abomination of desolation being placed in the holy place (which is what occurred in the 2nd temple in the days of Antiochus IV); and
(c) 1,290 days and 1,335 days (the text of Daniel 12:11-12 links the 1,290 and 1.335 days that the verses are talking about, both to daily sacrifices for sin being removed in the temple of God; and an abomination of desolation being placed in the holy place in the temple.
In Daniel 12:11-12 we have,
(1) A historical event, the beginning of which is fixed to commence at the time of the taking away of the daily sacrifice by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and the time when he set up of the image of Zeus in the holy place (which was the abomination of desolation); and
(2) The duration of this period of tribulation for God's faithful elect: 1,290 days. After that, the daily sacrifice was restored, and the abomination of desolation taken away - which is what the Jews still celebrate at Hanukkah each year.
Josephus dates the abomination of desolation being set up on the 25th day of Kislev (the 9th month of the biblical calendar) 145 SE (the 145th year of the Seleucid Empire). This matches the account in 1 Maccabees 1:54, which also places the abomination on 25 Kislev, 145 SE.
This took place over 200 years before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem temple in 70 A.D.
Any Bible interpreter who applies the 1,290 days and 1,335 days to the latter days preceding the return of Christ (2,100+ years after the historical abomination of desolation in the holy place), needs to explain:
(a) what constitutes those daily sacrifices in the gospel age which the 1,290 and 1,335 days are associated with; and
(b) what constitutes the temporary removal of the daily sacrifice in the years immediately preceding the return of Jesus - without engaging in guess-work and speculation and theological inventions.
Any Bible interpreter who applies the abomination of desolation to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in A.D 70 needs to explain
(i) why the abomination of desolation set up in the holy place of the 2nd temple by Antiochus IV, "Epiphanes" in 167 BC (Daniel 8:11; Daniel 11:31; and Daniel 12:11-12),
is not associated with the destruction of either the city of Jerusalem, or of the temple in it; and
(ii) why in Luke
17:25-32 Luke recorded Jesus as saying (in the context of talking about the end of the age and His return):
".. then let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house, and let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.", which is what Matthew recorded Jesus as saying here:
Matthew 24:15 & 17-18
"Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand),
then let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house, and let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes."
Unlike the above, Luke 21:20-24 records Jesus talking about the destruction of Jerusalem, after telling them that
"before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name." (Luke 21:12).
Which is exactly what happened between the crucifixion and 70 AD in the first century
Matthew writes about Jesus talking about the tribulation of His saints
at the end of the age.
The holy place is the sanctuary of God -
and since the sanctuary in the wilderness, God has always had only one temple. Since the day of Pentecost that temple is the churches in Christ. The antitype of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the man of sin of 2 Thessalonians 2:4, will be the abomination of desolation Jesus spoke about
- but it will only be
perceived by those who have the teaching which is witnessed by the Holy Spirit, and not by their own human imagination.
