I would like to take the opportunity to share my beliefs on the above verse.
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation...: This was the Crucifixion. 'See' means 'to see spiritually ahead of time'.
...spoken of by Daniel the prophet...: This was not a reference to Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
...standing where it ought not...: This is why it was referred to as an 'abomination'. One should not murder their Messiah.
...let him that readeth understand...: As in readeth *AND UNDERSTAND* the Book of Daniel! Who has done this?!?!?
...then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: God gave those who understood several decades to move and flee.
In other words, there is a gap of time in that verse.
- Moses Builds Tabernacle: Year 0
- Birth of Jesus: Year 1260
- Jesus Begins Ministry: Year 1290
- Destruction of Jerusalem: Year 1335
- Noah's Flood to Jesus: 2300 years
- This Generation: Tares (not the Pepsi Generation or Gen X or whatever)
- Pass: Lake of Fire
- All These Things: From 70 AD to the end of the Times of the Gentiles
- Fulfilled: Times of the Gentiles ends
Long story short, the Great Tribulation began in 70 AD and continues to this very day. We are not waiting for a 'Seven Year Tribulation' to begin. We are waiting for the Rapture. Wrath comes after, if not simultaneously.
Hey, would you look at that! The above is talking about the blood that Mystery Babylon drank. It was literal all along...
| Isaiah 26:21 - For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. |
Earth is Mystery Babylon. Go figure.
I appreciate you sharing your views with me .
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Mystery Babylon. Go figure.”
have you ever read much ot prophecy regarding
Jerusalem ?
“And the
woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having
a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And I saw
the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And
the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these
shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
Revelation 17:4-6, 16-17 KJV
Those are all things the ot says about Jerusalem . see the last verse there he’s talking about until the words of God
in the ot prophets are fulfilled .
here’s an example This long prophecy
starts out Like this regarding Jerusalem telling the story of when God began with her
“Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, Now
when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and
covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and
a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou
decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of
fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and
thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 16:1-2, 8, 12-14 KJV
But as it progresses he begins speaking of thier abominations and everything changes and he begins announcing judgements to come upon Jerusalem note the imagery of a beautiful woman made so by God wearing a crown and considered abive all cities . but then later a woman who has diverse colored garments and is refered to as a great whore who spread her abominations about …. Consider the end there where it says what’s going to happen to Jerusalem
“But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD

that thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. And I will judge thee, as women that bre
ak wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. And I will also
give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and
shall break down thy high places:
they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall
stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their
swords. And
they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause
thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.”
Ezekiel 16:15-16, 22-25, 35-41 KJV
i woiod recommend reading the entire prophecy but it’s long there are
several just like that in the latter prophets depicting Jerusalem often Jerusalem representing all Israel also but often it’s specific to Jerusalem.
My point is the things in the ot were being fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged and destroyed by rome in ad 70 after its destruction the people were to be scattered to the ends of the earth across the nations as part of the curse that parts still occurring .
gentiles weren’t allowed in the ot …… now the call of God is to all humanity gentiles included with israel that’s all the time of the gentiles means the time the gentiles are allowed to belong to God through Christ Jesus
again this is all my
opinion .