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Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BCE) "Abomination of desolation" [a] is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made.
Daniel asks how long it will be before these things are fulfilled and is told, "From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days; blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days".
In the final verses the remaining time to the end is revealed: "a time, times and half a time" (three years and a half). Daniel fails to understand and asks again what will happen, and is told: "From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Jesus references the abomination from Daniel 9:27, 11:31, [18] and 12:11 [19] in Matthew 24:15 [20] and Mark 13:14 [21] when he warns about the destruction of Jerusalem. Daniel 11:36-37 [ 22 ] speaks of a self exalting king, considered by some to be the Antichrist.
Following the wording of Daniel 9:27, this may have been the abomination of desolation of Jerusalem. sinful sacrifices (Isaiah 66:3) idolatry (Deuteronomy 29:17, Ezekiel 20:7,8, 1Kings 11:5–7, Jeremiah 13:27) witchcraft (2 Kings 23:24) The word sheqets is used with reference to: seafood that lacks fins and scales (Leviticus 11:10–12)
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. Lloyd, William (1690). An Exposition of the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks. Lust, Johan (2002). "Cult and Sacrifice in Daniel. The Tamid and the Abomination of Desolation". In Collins, John J.; Flint, Peter W. (eds.).
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'The Abomination that causes desolation' Matthew 24:15 [62] The Abomination that causes desolation is a future system of idolatrous worship based at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Abomination that causes desolation was the pagan armies of Rome destroying the apostate system of worship at the Temple in Jerusalem 2000 years ago.