With this in mind, however, it certainly seems that the mere existence of wicked Edomites and Zealots in the Temple is not enough. We need to have a cessation of true sacrifices and an implementation of fake ones. And naturally, that is precisely what took place in the New Covenant. With the death of Christ, the sacrificial system came to an end. Any blood sacrifices offered after the cross were prospective abominations.
The concept all individuals are equal is one to which any reasonable individual will give psychological assent. But when we comprehend that Jesus has removed our pity, which because of this we have absolutely nothing delegated hide, absolutely nothing delegated fear, and nothing left to prove, we actually own the notion that everyone is equivalent. To the degree we’re able to internalize the flexibility Jesus has actually protected for us, our energies move from preoccupation with self to preoccupation with the beauty of God and the thriving of our next-door neighbor.
Now we pertain to the declaration that “on the wing of detestable things, or abominations, comes one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate. In the past, You have actually taken the wing as a reference to the eagle, and thus collectively to Edom and Rome, both of whom are signified by the eagle in the Old Testament. The Romans and Idumeans together handled to damage the Temple. The Idumeans (Edomites) attacked the Temple and filled it with human blood. The Romans sacked it. You understood the last expressions of the verse to be saying that in time the Romans would also be damaged.
Antiochus Epiphanes established an idol in the Temple to be worshiped by the Jews, however the Antichrist will set himself up as God and need worship from all mankind. He will end all sacrifice in the Temple and devote the abomination that makes the holy place desecrated and desolate, a location entirely detestable to Jews.
Abomination denotes a things of disgust, repulsion, and abhorrence. In Scripture it is used mostly to represent things connected with idolatry and gross ungodliness. The Hebrew equivalent was frequently used of rites and paraphernalia connected with the wicked conduct of pagan religions. In the book of Revelation it is used to represent the immoralities and spiritual uncleanness of the false spiritual system known as “Babylon the fantastic, the mother of harlots. In the new paradise and new earth there will be absolutely nothing unclean and no one who practices abominations and lying.
False worship is idolatrous worship. When The abomination of desolation rejected Jesus and kept offering sacrifices, they were taken part in idolatry. This was the “wing of abominations” that happened in the Temple. It is why the Temple was ultimately ruined. The particular desecration that happened was the massacre of transformed Jews that happened just before A.D. 70, as prophesied in the book of Revelation. It was the blood of those saints that Jerusalem was made to drink to her own destruction.
The apocryphal books of 1 and 2 Maccabees vividly represent the time of Antiochus and the Jews’ zealous resistance to his brutal and sacrilegious tyranny. He butchered countless thousands of Jewish men, sold much of their other halves and kids into slavery, and attempted to totally wipe out the Jewish religion. He desecrated the Temple by compromising a pig, the most ceremonially dirty of all animals, on the altar and requiring the priests to consume its flesh. He then established in the Temple an idol of Zeus, the pagan divine being he fancied himself as manifesting. That horrible defilement by Antiochus was a sneak peek of the even greater abomination of desolation to be devoted by the Antichrist in the end time.