Name 2 other historical sources for the events of 70AD? The Bible never states a 70AD event. Josephus and Tacitus were the only historians to mention 70AD. Give me one more quote from an early church father referencing 70AD.
The word desolation does not define the AoD. When Assyria and Babylon decimated Israel it was the cause of much desolation. Just saying armies makes countries they attack desolate does not even begin to describe what the AoD literally means. Antiochus Epiphanes made life desolate and abominable through the rituals committed in the temple. That was the AoD Daniel claimed would be set up.
Removing all the stones from all the buildings in Jerusalem and making it desolate is not the same thing. That is not setting up an AoD in the temple and declaring years of subjugation on a people. Rome did not set up an AoD in 70AD and continued to use that AoD to subjugate Israel. That would have fulfilled Daniel 9:27.
What was fulfilled was verse 26:
"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
Jesus was the Lamb of God. The Cross happened. Jesus left the earth. The fulness of the Gentiles was experienced and Jerusalem was left desolate. Largely impart to Jesus' own people destroying their own way of life. Those Jews who crucified Jesus claimed His blood on their children and grandchildren. They agreed that if Jesus was innocent, they would damn the lives of their own children. God held them to that oath. Their children and grandchildren brought down the wrath of the Roman's which ended in 70AD with total desolation for hundreds of years.
One claim is that a Jew set fire to the temple. One claim is that a high ranking officer defied Titus and did it himself. Clearly it was not Titus' intention to level any of Jerusalem. But when Titus finally entered the city, he was so disgusted by how the Jews themselves were defiling their own temple, he allowed the whole city to be leveled to prevent it to remain as any reminder of a once holy place.
The Jews themselves had turned the temple into an abomination and desolation. They had no need of any Roman armies. This has already been quoted and posted somewhere. Yet you keep insisting that Luke's armies are Matthew's AoD. An AoD was never set up as Daniel described. And Daniel never described such an event in chapter 9 being some armies. Verse 26 happened at the first coming. The coming Prince happens at the Second Coming. Only then will verse 27 happen, if at all. During the days of the 7th Trumpet we will find out. Only at that point will we even see if prophecy will happen or not. We were given the worse case scenario. I am hoping for the best case scenario.
Josephus wasn't a church father, he was a traitor to his Jewish people, he left his military command in Israel, and joined the enemy in Rome, being their propaganda minister, being rewarded with a Roman palace, women, and monies for his service to the Roman Emperor
Your 100% correct, no early church fathers Justin Martyr, Iranaeus, Hippolytus, even mentioned 70AD, let alone claimed it was fulfillment of Matthew 24
The Jesuit Roman catholic was the inventor of the preterist teaching as seen below
Wikipedia: Preterism
Historically, preterists and non-preterists have generally agreed that the
Jesuit Luis de Alcasar (1554–1613) wrote the first systematic preterist exposition of prophecy
Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi, published during the Counter-Reformation.
The term
preterism comes from the Latin
praeter, which is a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond". Adherents of preterism are known as
preterists. Preterism teaches that either all (full preterism) or a majority (partial preterism) of the Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70.
Interpretation of the Great Tribulation
In the preterist view, the Tribulation took place in the past when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70 during the end stages of the First Jewish–Roman War, and it affected only the Jewish people rather than all mankind.
Christian preterists believe that the Tribulation was a divine judgment visited upon the Jews for their sins, including rejection of Jesus as the promised Messiah. It occurred entirely in the past, around 70 AD when the armed forces of the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem and its temple.
A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, and the Olivet discourse, rather than on the Book of Revelation. Most preterists apply much of the symbolism in Revelation to Rome, the Caesars, and their persecution of Christians, rather than to the Tribulation upon the Jews.
Jesus' warning in Matthew 24:34 that "this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" is tied back to his similar warning to the scribes and the Pharisees that their judgment would "come upon this generation", that is, during the first century rather than at a future time long after the scribes and Pharisees had passed away. The destruction in AD 70 occurred within a 40-year generation from the time when Jesus gave that discourse.
The judgment on the Jewish nation was executed by the Roman legions, "the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet." This can also be found in Luke 21:20.
Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that "there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down" (vs. 3), preterists see nothing in scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built. The prophecies were all fulfilled against the temple of that time, which was subsequently destroyed within that generation.
