How many times in the life of Jesus, as we have seen in the Gospels, did the Jewish apostles ask questions and receive answers? Was all the answer to their question that the disciples were Jews for Israel? No one using this argument is considering abandoning the Our Father (I hope) or John's "consoling" teachings. Is Israel really involved in all of this? Yes, of course, they are! But have we been grafted into a tree called Israel? (Romans 11:17-21) Of course, it is! Our fates are mixed.
The disciples wanted a sign, and they had a sign. A very specific event is foretold, after which Jesus will come. Consider this: Jesus and Daniel called this the abomination of desolation. It was an unimaginably evil event, causing devastation, destruction, desolation, desolation.
Now, what in the world could that do? A sign is given: it "stands" in the holy place, says Jesus (24:15). The Jewish audience knew that Jesus was talking about their temple. Remember that John, who wrote more than 20 years after the temple was destroyed in Jesus' day, is found in the book of Revelation measuring an earthly temple. Oh, yes, there will be a temple on the last day. I am preparing to highlight it while writing. Those who oppose the idea of a temple should read the last part of the book of Ezekiel. Other prophets (Isaiah, Micah) have seen the house of the Lord on the last day. A consistent literal interpretation of the Bible requires such a building.
History records at least twice when the sacred place was offended by something "standing". In 163 BC, Antiochus Epiphanes and in 70 AD, the Roman general Titus, both placed abominations in the temple. Once it was a pig. Once upon a time, it was an idol. In both cases, there was a disaster.
Both times there was genocide, extermination, reduction of the Jewish population. But Daniel, who prophesied to Jesus about a cruel act that would make him desolate, had something more terrible in mind because they both attached it. with a time of unparalleled suffering. That time has not yet come because suffering itself is tied to the end of all things, and that end has not come. Antiochus and Titus show us
Very little will happen if the temple is recaptured and degraded again.
But some people question, Can a temple become the real house of God? I ask this: was the temple ever the real house of God, or was it just an image of heaven, the church, and the body of Jesus being the real temple? The point we make here is that the Antichrist and the Jews of that day would consider the Temple in Jerusalem sacred and the observing world would know exactly what was being said by its occupation.
Daniel in his 8th chapter talks about the daily sacrifice taken, the opposition of the army, the "crossing of the line of destruction" and the trampling of the holy place. In the same chapter, he is told that all these things will happen at the end of time (8:9-19). Later, in the retelling of these events in chapters 11 and 12, similar events are tagged with "the time of matters as never before ...".
Likewise, Jesus not only mentioned the same contempt for the temple but also referred to the siege of Jerusalem with the army in Luke 21:20-24, a parallel passage in Matthew 24. Here referred to as "the time of the Gentiles," which many think is the period from the destruction of Titus to the return of the Jews to the temple. their worship. But in reality, Revelation 11:1-2 makes it clear that the total period of pagan rule in this context is three and a half years.
Daniel and Jesus both saw the last time. The atrocities that were destroyed in the days of Antiochus were already history when Jesus prophesied. And now, the history of the abomination of desolation of Jerusalem by Titus, and the prophecy of the return of Jesus, have yet to be fulfilled. So, to fulfill both of these prophecies, we must look to the future.
Paul adds the last part of the puzzle when he describes it in 2 Thessalonians 2, who himself will sit in the temple of God! If a pig or an idol had a terrible influence on this region, what would happen when God's eternal enemy declared himself his god and challenged God to face?
An exciting but scary day ahead. Let us be ready to take up our cross where He leads.
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