What is the "Abomination of Desolation"?

[Earburner]

Now Jesus was talking about something that had happen before, and now was repeating again. We find what Daniel was talking about in the destruction of the first temple that caused desolation in the time of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, who took Daniel and his three friends prisoners back to Babylon.

Jeremiah 25 King James Version (KJV)

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

So we get a clue as to what caused the desolation and the severity of it on the whole land. The Temple was destroyed and the people killed or taken prisoners, and the worship in Jerusalem severely affected. So what "abomination" made this "desolation" then and in the time of Jesus that would again cause the rebuilt Temple to again be destroyed, and how long would it be as we see the "seventy years" the first one lasted.

Now that you have exhausted all of the analytical effort of your own human logical perspective, that dwells in your own human mind,
you might want to consider the perspective of God's thoughts, of how God the Father thought of the "abomination of desolation", in relation to his Son and Himself.

John 2[19] Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy [desolate] temple, and in three days I will raise [restore] it up.
[20] Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
[21] But he spake of the temple of his body.

 

[Earburner]

BTW- reference Isa. 55:8-9 and John 5:39 for your study.

 

[Earburner]

Correction: Destroy [desolate] this temple...

 

[Earburner]

We see this verse in Daniel 9:27 (KJV)

"27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

Christ refers to it in Matthew 24:15(KJV)

"15 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

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The Jewish Rabbis have pushed the view that it was when in 167 B.C. a Greek ruler by the name of Antiochus Epiphanies set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offerings in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.

But it doesn't fit, as Jesus declared it looking forward in time, not backwards, and the Jewish nation continued along with the sacrifices as we see at the beginning of Matthew 24 as Jesus was telling the disciples what was going to happen:

Matthew 24 King James Version (KJV)1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

So lets start with what was this desolation that would befall them?



desolation

• a state of complete emptiness or destruction.
  "the stony desolation of the desert"
  synonyms: barrenness, bleakness, starkness, bareness, dismalness, grimness; Morearidity, sterility;
  wildness;
  isolation, solitude, solitariness, loneliness, remoteness
  "the arid, stony desolation of the Gobi desert"
  
  
  
  antonyms: fertility
  
  
  • anguished misery or loneliness.
    "in choked desolation, she watched him leave"
    synonyms: misery, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, gloom, gloominess, glumness, despondency, sorrow, depression, grief, mournfulness, woe; More

You quoted:
"15 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).
EBs reply:
Well...do YOU understand?
Let's see if you do?
Question: what is "the Holy place"?
Ans. "The court of the priests", aka the Sanhedrin in the time of Jesus' first appearance.
Jesus "stood" there, being falsely accused!!
NOW do you understand?
See 2 Chr. 35:5