What is the Abomination of Desolation?

The abomination that maketh desolate, better known as the abomination of desolation, is an important event to understand because it does a number of things.

 

Daniel taught, in Daniel 9:27, the abomination of desolation would take place in the midst or middle of the 70th week, the final seven year period leading up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  In Matthew 24:15-21 Jesus taught once the abomination of desolation occurs, those in Judaea are to flee to the mountains because then will be a time of tribulation like never before or ever will be.  The abomination of desolation is the event marking the beginning of the great tribulation.

 

We learn who commits this event when we look at Daniel 8:11-12, Daniel 9:26-27, Daniel 11:31, and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4; the Antichrist.  We also learn what exactly happens at this event when we compare scriptures.  When Jesus spoke of the abomination of desolation in Matthew 24:15, He spoke of it standing in the holy place.  2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 elaborates on this event by speaking of the Antichrist, the man of sin, sitting in the temple of God.  This same passage shows us the Antichrist will claim that he is God and exalt himself above God just as we see in Daniel 7:25.

 

The abomination of desolation is when the Antichrist sits in the temple, which will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount, and claims to be God.  This is also
the event revealing the identity of the Antichrist.

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