Let me start with this part (
bold/underlined and enlarged)... I had meant to come back and elaborate on the "desolate" aspect (the way I had made my post) but I got sidetracked with other things (special events and houseguests and so forth, where I'm at)... SO...
we are not ENTIRELY in agreement (tho it appears to you we are) and that is because...
while, yes, I pointed out the verse re: "your house is left to you
desolate"... but NOT that I'm saying this is "the
abomination [
singular] of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet" (the "singular" [of "abomination"] only used TWICE in Daniel, 11:31 and 12:11); but that this "fits"
instead in the chronology of the use of the OTHER word ("desolation
S") in the "PLURAL" in Dan9:
26 [recall, I'd said that Dan9:25-27 is in chronological/sequential order, so...
this
"desolationS are determined/decreed"--in association
with what the other thing is referring to IN THAT VERSE [
v.26] "
the people OF the prince that shall come [note: not "the prince that shall come" himself! but the people OF him]
SHALL DESTROY THE CITY and THE SANCTUARY... " then it says, "...desolaTION
S [
PLURAL] are determined/decreed" (THIS is where the 70ad events +forward factor in, INCLUDING "your house is left to you
desolate," as ONE of those plural things... but is NOT "the abomination [singular; Dan11:31,12:
11<--tied to a specific
"timing" thing!] of
desolation [SINGULAR]"...
No, the 70ad circumstances tie into the 9:26 plural desolationS as one of THOSE [keeping in mind that that section is SEQUENTIAL])]
Hope you can track with my explanation.