As far as the feminine playing into everything here, I think the obvious yet subtle link is with the harlot of Revelation which rides on the beast. All of this is intertwined and this is why I personally don't like to get caught up in the squabble over desolation or desolater because it's a noun either way.Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Daniel 12:11
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Maketh (H. shamem) is a curious word for me here:http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon...gs=H08074&t=kjvThe "abomination that maketh desolate" hints, at least to me, of a person. A person, as an object, can be a noun.Set seems to confirm this rather well for me, for we all know who controls everything in the end: http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon...gs=H05414&t=kjvDaniel 8:24
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
The abomination that is setup is a he.Daniel 8:11-13
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Daniel 12:11
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Maketh (H. shamem) is a curious word for me here:http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon...gs=H08074&t=kjvThe "abomination that maketh desolate" hints, at least to me, of a person. A person, as an object, can be a noun.Set seems to confirm this rather well for me, for we all know who controls everything in the end: http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon...gs=H05414&t=kjvDaniel 8:24
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
The abomination that is setup is a he.Daniel 8:11-13
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?