What IS the abomination that causes desolation?

Question

Please don't explain about the antichrist....and tell the story how the prophecy is half fulfilled by the Romans, and there will be another fulfilling in the future that David & Jesus speaks about. I know that.

I just want to know What it IS.

Most things in the Bible can be unlocked by reading the Old Testament, but I can't find a past story in the Bible to explain the Abomination that Causes desolation.....and it's driving me nuts...because I don't know what I'm supposed to be watching out for...

For those who say Its when the Antichrist sits in the temple and declares that he is God.....where in the Bible does it say that this IS an abomination? Please back up your reasoning with scripture, and not what your sunday school teacher explained to you.

Answer 1

Dan 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Dan 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

abomination that maketh desolate--that is, that pollutes the temple (Da 8:12,13). Or rather, "the abomination of the desolater," Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees 1:29, 37-49). Compare Da 9:27, wherein the antitypical desolating abomination of Rome (the eagle standard, the bird of Jupiter, sacrificed to by Titus' soldiers within the sacred precincts, at the destruction of Jerusalem), of Mohammed and of the final Antichrist, is foretold. 1 Maccabees 1:54, uses the very phrase, "the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty-fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation on the altar"; namely, an idol-altar and image of Jupiter Olympius, erected upon Jehovah's altar of burnt offerings. "Abomination" is the common name for an idol in the Old Testament. The Roman emperor Adrian's erection of a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus where the temple of God had stood, A.D. 132; also the erection of the Mohammedan mosque of Omar in the same place (it is striking, Mohammedanism began to prevail in A.D. 610, only about three years of the time when Popery assumed the temporal power); and the idolatry of the Church of Rome in the spiritual temple, and the final blasphemy of the personal Antichrist in the literal temple (2Th 2:4) may all be antitypically referred to here under Antiochus the type, and the Old Testament Antichrist.

Answer 2

It is a statue ("image") of the Antichrist that the False Prophet will cause to appear to be alive (Rev. 13:14-15). This statue will be set up in the "Holy of Holies" (the Sanctuary) of the Third Temple (Daniel 11:31b and Matthew 24:15). The statue will remain in the Temple 30 days after the Second Coming, at which time Jesus will destroy it and build the Fourth Temple Himself (compare Daniel 12:11 -- 1,290 days -- with Daniel 9:27a, clarifying the Tribulation will be exactly 7 years, but in the middle of the 7 years -- which is 1,260 days -- the covenant will be broken).

EDIT: To those answering it's the Antichrist standing in the Temple: as I demonstrated above, the abomination still stands 30 days after the Second Coming. It's impossible the abomination is the Antichrist because he's killed shortly after the Second Coming (Rev. 19:20), but before his armies die.

Answer 3

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. "

Daniel 9:26-27 (in Context) Daniel 9 (Whole Chapter)

Daniel 11:31

"His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

Daniel 11:30-32 (in Context) Daniel 11 (Whole Chapter)

Daniel 12:11

"From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Daniel 12:10-12 (in Context) Daniel 12 (Whole Chapter)

Matthew 24:15

"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet

Daniel—let the reader understand—

Matthew 24:14-16 (in Context) Matthew 24 (Whole Chapter)

Mark 13:14

"When you see 'the abomination that causes desolation' standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Mark 13:13-15 (in Context) Mark 13 (Whole Chapter)

Answer 4

Daniel 9:27 I believe that Daniels 70 weeks prophecy was fulfilled many Christians don't though. I the abomination that causes desolation was the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD the message was for the Jews. I don't believe there will be another temple Jesus was the Sacrifice why would God allow sacrifices again?

Answer 5

No, the 2012 date isn't it. The abomination that reasons desolation is the Golden Dome (Al Aqsa) mosque that sits on ultimate of the Jewish Holy Temple spot in Jerusalem. This mosque represents the Muslim faith that's inflicting desolation international, homicide, wiping out of interior sight cultures and languages, treating females like animals, and intends to totally administration the finished international by utilising the two outward Jihad or stealth Jihad. It has already achieved so in Europe, the ecu, the UN, etc. are run specially by utilising Muslim blocs now, and those are no longer "reasonable" Muslims, those are Sharia regulation extremist Muslims. that's what's in Jerusalem, Europe, Australia, the u . s . a ., Canada, and someplace else. extra perfect awaken. EDIT: Why might you think of the Catholic church is coaching me something?? Im no longer Catholic. See what happens once you assume?

Answer 6

Who knows? Many speculate on this. Most all think it is anti-Christ declaring himself to be God. Others think it may be Allah, or a revived Mohammedan successor.
One thing for sure-it is a man. He will be a military leader or politician. He will make a treaty with Israel, and he will break it 3 1/2 years later .
Dan 9:27, Matt 24:15.
The Abomination that causes desolation is a person.

Answer 7

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:


Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:21-23

Leviticus 18:22 is talking about homosexuals.

Jesus said when you see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. Some scholars believe the holy place is behind the pulpit preaching the word of God.

Today we have the abomination standing in the holy place.

Answer 8

It is when the antichrist sits in the temple and declares that he is God.
Jesus Himself tells us that this IS an abomination in Matt. 24:15--"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Dan. 12:11--"And from that time the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

A thumbs down?!

Answer 9

Some really good researching and answers have been provided here. Hint: In the Bible (as my First Bible doctrine teacher taught me) After a (.) the word "Now" can mean that hundreds or thousands of years have passed.

Just so, in a compound complex sentence as in Daniel (already quoted several times) the word ...."and" may mean that up to 3,300 years have elapsed. Food for thought?!

Answer 10

Detestable thing, idol. This noun is always used in connection with idolatrous practices, either referring to the idols themselves as being abhorrent and detestable in God's sight, or to something associated with the idolatrous ritual. Idols generally are referred to as an abomination (Jeremiah 16:18; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:20; 2 Chron. 15:8, etc). Not only are the idols an abomination, but they that worship them "become detestable like that which they love" (Hosea 9:10), for they identify themselves with the idols.
Antiochus Epiphanes, as prophesied in Daniel 11:31, and who is typical of Antichrist, set up an altar to, and image of, Zeus in the temple. This is called the "abomination that causes desolation," a desecration of the altar which destroys its true purpose. Just so will Antichrist establish an abomination in the sanctuary, a demonic counterfeit worship (Daniel 9:27; Daniel 12:11).

The "abominable filth" of Nahum 3:6 is shiqqus. It seems likely that, since shiqqus is everywhere else clearly related to idolatrous worship, the same would be true here.

It is important to recognize that by the use of such a strong word as shiqqus God wants his people to recognize the extreme seriousness and wickedness of this sin, however attractive and popular it might be. God's own people need to view sin from God's perspective (Deut. 7:26).


The "Abomination of Desolation"

According to the authors of the Left Behind series, the 'abomination that causes desolation' stands in the holy place "in the middle of the [7-year] Tribulation." (Are We Living in the End Times? by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Page 123) But Jesus did not say that at all.

His disciples had asked Jesus when the temple would be "thrown down" without leaving "one stone upon another," and Jesus' answer included, "When you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand — then let those in Judea flee to the mountains." (Matt. 24:2, 15-16 NIV)

Luke reported these additional words from Jesus' sermon, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains." (Luke 21:20-21 NIV)

What did Jesus say would be the signal for his first-century followers and others in Judea to flee to the mountains, before Jerusalem and its temple were to be destroyed? That signal was armies surrounding the city according to Luke's account, and "the abomination that causes desolation" according to Matthew's account. Since both Gospel writers were relating the same warning message, and the same signal to flee the city, "the abomination that causes desolation" must relate to the Roman forces that later desolated the city.

That is how Martin Luther understood it:

"the abomination of desolation. Here Christ now says, When ye shall see this one standing in the temple, then take heed (he wants to say) for that is a sure sign from Daniel's prophecy that his kingdom is now at an end; and do not let yourselves be deceived because the Jews and weak Christians think that it shall never be destroyed. But the abomination of which Daniel writes is that the Emperor Cajus, as history tells, had put his image in the temple at Jerusalem as an idol, for the people to worship, after everything there had been destroyed."
—Martin Luther, "Sermon for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity; Matthew 24:15-28"
from his Church Postil, first published in 1525
available online at http://www.orlutheran.com/mlsemt2415.html

Could it also have application to the future, long after the time of the Roman destruction of the temple in Judea? Luther allowed for such a possibility — but did not apply it to a 7-year end-times tribulation. Instead, Luther taught:

"this passage in Daniel concerning the abomination applies also to us. For we also have indeed a real abomination of desolation sitting in a holy place, namely: in Christendom and in the consciences of men, where God alone should sit and reign ... what is the Pope doing? He is sitting not in the natural temple or God's house, but in the spiritual, in the new and living temple of which Paul says: 'If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are,' I Cor. 3, 16-17. ...Thus you see whether the Pope is not the greatest arch-abomination of all abominations, to whom Christ and Daniel refer; and the true Antichrist, of whom it is written that he sitteth in the temple of God ... And he can in truth be called an 'abomination of desolation'..."
—Martin Luther, "Sermon for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity; Matthew 24:15-28"
from his Church Postil, first published in 1525
available online at http://www.orlutheran.com/mlsemt2415.html

How then can the Left Behind theologians come up with their interpretation that the Jewish temple will be rebuilt in modern times and that the abomination is a man named Nicolae Carpathia who "commits the ultimate blasphemy by appearing in the temple to declare that he is God" during the midst of a seven-year tribulation? (Are We Living in the End Times? Page 123) Only by presenting a very complex series of arguments. It is not a conclusion that unindoctrinated readers come to on their own when reading the Bible alone. And it is not the understanding that prevailed among sincere Bible readers for hundreds of years.