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Click Here - Matthew 24:15-28.

Remember that often prophecy does not refer just to one event.  Take this example of the abomination of desolation.  As it was originally spoken of in the Old Testament book of Daniel (written about 550 years before Christ), it was referring to an event that happened during the Maccabeus revolt (about 165 B.C.).   Yet Jesus is using that in our passage to speak of something that would happen about 40 years later (70 a.d.) when Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed.  Yet the abomination in many eyes of the Jews is still happening today, as the Islamic Dome of the Rock is built on the former site of the destroyed temple.

Many Christians think that the temple needs to be rebuilt.  Yet Biblically, that is not necessary because Jesus did away with the temple.  No longer were temple sacrifices needed.  No longer was the holy of Holies, the dwelling place of God, kept curtained off from the normal people.  His sacrifice was once for all, opening the way to the Father simply by Faith in who Jesus is and His death for us. 

Even His death is a fulfillment of the abomination of desolation prophecy.  His body, the new temple, spit upon, beaten, hung on a cross as a common criminal.  Yet it is that abomination that gives us our forgiveness, promise, and hope.

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