Abomination of Desolation
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Introduction
Introduction
During the passion week, Jesus leaving the temple was approached by one of his disciples to admire the Temple and the beautiful buildings.
Jesus tells them all the structures and buildings will one day be knocked down and Jerusalem would be destroyed.
Disciples ask him privately to explain this to them. They asked him two specific questions.
When will these things be?
What will be the sign when all these things will be accomplished?
Jesus responds to them with very specific signs to watch out for
Many false prophets will arise and claim to be the messiah. They will lead many astray. They are commanded to make sure they are not lead astray
There will be wars and rumors of wars. They are commanded not to be alarmed or anxietous about these things.
Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
Earthquakes and other nature disasters in various of places
Wide scale famines
Jesus means when you see all of these signs happening all at once, take note these are the beginnings of birth pains. Labor starts suddenly and then gradually increases in intensity.
6. The disciples would be handed over to be prosecuted for name of Jesus. They will be witnesses for Jesus and proclaim the gospel of Grace to the rulers and authorities.
7. There will be wide spread betrayal among family members
And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
Mark 13:
Remember Jesus here is giving information into the future. Some of what he is saying will happen within just a few years and some not for many years. They asked about all to be accomplished. J
Jesus is prophesying- He is giving them mysterious information about the destruction of the temple, the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the scattering of the jews. He’s giving them information about the spread of Gospel, the coming of the Holy Spirit, the birth of the church, the persecution of the church, the coming deception of the antichrist and the second coming of Jesus’s return.
We will move onto the next section of this discourse which is
Here Jesus prophesies about a very specific moment in time, that Mark the author even indicates for the reader of this gospel to take carful understanding. Please stay with me as we read this section and pay attention.
The Abomination of Desolation
The Abomination of Desolation
“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that it may not happen in winter.
What is Jesus talking about?? are there any clues
Jesus says that the Prophet Daniel spoke about an Abomination of Desolation
First of all who was Danel? Daniel was a prophet most of you would recognize him from the story of Daniel in the lions den. He was carried off to Babylon in 597 bc, so about 600 years before the birth of Christ. Most believe he was about 16 when he and his three friends were taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel had a gift from God in the interpreting of dreams because of this the King eventually wanted to make Daniel a Governor of Babylonia but Daniel requested that the honor be conferred to his three companions in Captivity.
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Daniel (Person)
Daniel dropped from public view and evidently occupied an inferior position in the royal court. Although he received visions (Dn 7; 8) in the first and third years of the Babylonian regent Belshazzar’s reign (555 and 552 BC), it was not until 539 BC that Daniel made another public appearance. During a banquet hosted by Belshazzar, the king profaned the sacred vessels pillaged from the Jerusalem temple. A disembodied hand suddenly appeared and wrote on the palace wall the mysterious words, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.” Summoned to explain the message, Daniel interpreted it as a forecast of the imminent end of the Babylonian kingdom. That same night Belshazzar was killed by the Persians, who attacked and successfully overran the capital city
Now Darius the Mede ruled. Darius was persuaded to pass a decree forbidding anyone to petition anyone but the king. This included God, Daniel prayed 3 times a day so he violated this decrease which caused him to be through into the lions den. God saved Daniel by sending a Angel to shut the mouths. Daniel wrote the book of Daniel in the 6 century which is the fourth book of the Major Prophets in the OT. The latter Part of the book of Daniel describes several visions he received of Future events
Future kingdoms 81-27
The coming of the Messiah Chapter 9:1-27
Daniel describes a event that sounds very close to what Jesus is taking about in
And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
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And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
So what was Daniel talking about?
Jesus said let the reader understand, so he knew the jewish readers would recognize the abomination of Desolation as an event Daniel was taking about
The word “abomination” denoted pagan idolatry and its detestable practices
The phrase “the abomination of desolation” referred to the presence of an idolatrous person or object so detestable that it caused the temple to be abandoned and left desolate
Historically, the first fulfillment of Daniel’s prophetic use of the expression (Dan. 11:31–32) was the desecration of the temple in 167 B.C. by the Syrian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes. He erected an altar to the pagan Greek god Zeus over the altar of burnt offering and sacrificed a pig on it
When this happened it was detestable so evil it made the temple desolate. Jesus’s use of the phase of the Abomination of Desolation is referring to another event. The temple would be destroyed in the future by the Romans in 70 AD which would be around 40 yrs after Jesus makes this prophesy. SO this prophesy by Jesus had some meaning for the people who would read this.
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
Speaking of the same event.
When the temple is about to be destroyed they are told to flee to the mountains.
They will need to flee in a hurry, they will not have time to go into their house and grab their things. If your’e working in the field, you wont have time to go home. It would have been especially difficult for pregnant women and Jesus said pray that it wouldn’t be in winter because the waddys would have been full of water because of the rainy season making fleeing even more difficult.
Jewish Christians heeded these words and took them as warning. In 70 AD when the Romans surrounded Jerusalem Jewish Christians fled to Pella, a town located in the Transjordanian mountains.
The events of 167 bc and AD 70 foreshadow a final fulfillment of these words of Jesus just prior to his second coming.
Mark used the masculine participle “standing” (hestēkota, masc. perf. part.) to modify the neuter noun “abomination” (bdelygma; v. 14). This suggests that “the abomination” is a future person “standing where he (NIV marg.) does not belong.”
This person is the end-time Antichrist
This is an important mismatched word. When Daniel used the phase there were no mismated words. The abomination is clearly a thing- the slaughter of a pig in the temple. Mark’s use of he instead of it which suggests this abomination had to do primarily with a person.