What is the Abomination of Desolation?
(Reference article below)
The phrase “abomination of desolation” refers to Matthew 24:15 (KJV): “So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand.” This is referring to Daniel 9:27, “He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” In 167 B.C. a Greek ruler by the name of Antiochus Epiphanies set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offerings in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is known as the abomination of desolation.
In Matthew 24:15, Jesus was speaking some 200 years after the abomination of desolation described above had already occurred. So, Jesus must have been prophesying that some time in the future another abomination of desolation would occur in a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Most Bible prophecy interpreters believe that Jesus was referring to the Antichrist who will do something very similar to what Antiochus Epiphanies did. This is confirmed by the fact that some of what Daniel prophesied in Daniel 9:27 did not occur in 167 B.C. with Antiochus Epiphanies. Antiochus did not confirm a covenant with Israel for seven years. It is the Antichrist who, in the end times, will establish a covenant with Israel for seven years and then break it by doing something similar to the abomination of desolation in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
Whatever the future abomination of desolation is, it will leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the one perpetrating it is the person known as the Antichrist. Revelation 13:14 describes him making some kind of image which all are forced to worship. Turning the temple of the living God into a place of worship for the Antichrist is truly an “abomination.”
(The above refeence article was extracted from
https://www.gotquestions.org/abomination-desolation.html)
From the time the temple of God was desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanies till now the real temple of God has been violated and desecrated millions and zillions of times over. "How?" You may ask. Let me explain...
The above reference article says,
"Revelation 13:14 describes him(Antichrist) making some kind of image which all are forced to worship. Turning the temple of the living God into a place of worship for the Antichrist is truly an “abomination.”..."
Now what has Antichrist subtly created for all to worship? Look around the world. What are people spending most of their waking hours on, thinking about, doing...etc? Children, teenagers, youth, parents, even grandparents, leaders, pastors... Main culprit is the Social Media and computer games which come in countless forms.
What does God command in the 10 Commandments?
Let me give you the first three here.
*I am the LORD thy God.
*No other gods before me.
*No graven images or likenesses.
Antichrist which has already begun working subtly through his counterparts has deceived us into violating the first 3 commandments by engaging most of our waking hours even upon waking up, in Social Media and/or other distractions (however important or good they may be or seem)
God's Word says in 1Cor 6:19
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;"
That means if we put anything or anyone else in God's place inside the temple of God (our body)and spend the waking hour (first fruit)of our mornings and most of our time,on it, then we have placed the Abomination of Desolation in God's holy temple and desecrated His temple.
The final Abomination of Desolation will happen in a grand scale as predicted in the Bible. But before that, Antichrist numbs people's minds and prepares them to worship him wholeheartedly and willingly very easily, by getting them to daily violate the first three and eventually all the commandments.
Let us wake up. Do not be deceived. Let us not be participants of this plot to desecrate God's Holy Temple which is our own Body. Worship God and Him alone.
Let us spend our waking hour praising and thanking Him. Throughout our day, let us converse with Him as with our husband, wife, child or friend, about our daily matters. He is closer to us than our own breath. Let us spend time alone with Him everyday. Before sleeping, let us examine our conscience and ask the Father's forgiveness for the wrong things we did and the good we failed to do. Let us thank the Holy Spirit for guiding and protecting us throughout the day. Then let us sleep with loving thoughts of Jesus and awake in the morning welcoming the Holy Spirit to guide us.
God bless you
Mary Augustine
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