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I realized that from one of your earlier posts, that you see John having been given Revelation in the era when the 2nd temple was still standing, prior to its 70 A.D. destruction by the Romans. I don't agree with that.
We have a historical example of the "abomination of desolation" prophecy of Dan.11 with Antiochus IV in 165 B.C., yet our Lord Jesus quoted about that Daniel prophecy in His Olivet Discourse some 200 years after Antiochus IV had been dead.
Antiochus Epiphanes went into the 2nd temple, sacrificed swine upon the alter, spread its broth, and then setup an idol in Zeus worship. So even at Jesus' first coming, they already had a pattern for the "abomination of desolation" event in the temple.
That "abomination of desolation" event requires a standing temple in Jerusalem. It also requires the re-establishing of old covenant worship with that temple in order to fulfill that Dan.9:27 & Dan.11 prophecy, for that is the only meaning for the "holy covenant" mentioned there in Daniel's time.
And that is exactly what the orthodox Jews have been planning since they began to trek back to Jerusalem and Israel became a nation again.
Their doing that in the near future is not dependent upon our Faith on Jesus Christ as The Messiah. They still reject Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. God is going to send them a fake, and the fake they will worship in place of Messiah, thinking he will be Messiah. Thus in their own eyes, they don't see that they're doing anything wrong, but only following the OT prophecies of Messiah coming, and the prophecy of Zech.6 about the building of the temple by Messiah. To them, that temple will very much be the "temple of God".
We have a historical example of the "abomination of desolation" prophecy of Dan.11 with Antiochus IV in 165 B.C., yet our Lord Jesus quoted about that Daniel prophecy in His Olivet Discourse some 200 years after Antiochus IV had been dead.
Antiochus Epiphanes went into the 2nd temple, sacrificed swine upon the alter, spread its broth, and then setup an idol in Zeus worship. So even at Jesus' first coming, they already had a pattern for the "abomination of desolation" event in the temple.
That "abomination of desolation" event requires a standing temple in Jerusalem. It also requires the re-establishing of old covenant worship with that temple in order to fulfill that Dan.9:27 & Dan.11 prophecy, for that is the only meaning for the "holy covenant" mentioned there in Daniel's time.
And that is exactly what the orthodox Jews have been planning since they began to trek back to Jerusalem and Israel became a nation again.
Their doing that in the near future is not dependent upon our Faith on Jesus Christ as The Messiah. They still reject Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. God is going to send them a fake, and the fake they will worship in place of Messiah, thinking he will be Messiah. Thus in their own eyes, they don't see that they're doing anything wrong, but only following the OT prophecies of Messiah coming, and the prophecy of Zech.6 about the building of the temple by Messiah. To them, that temple will very much be the "temple of God".
Daniel 9:27 has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with re-establishing old covenant worship.