29,30. Then he says, When you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation . It is then, in the future, when the disgusting thing will be put into place. 21,22. But more often throughout the Bible abomination refers to major covenant violations, especially idolatry (in Deuteronomy alone, see 7:25, 13:6-16, 17:2-5, 18:9-12, 27:15, 32:16). A great tribulation such as has not occurred since the worlds beginning until now, no, nor will occur again, for it needs no repeating. In the concluding words of the prophecy Daniel recorded the words of an angel who said: It is apparent that the removal of the constant feature and the placing of the disgusting thing are inseparable. Another contradictory aspect of the Watchtowers latest interpretation is the fact that Jesus indicated that his own followers would be directly impacted and will not be mere sideline observers. Acts 8:30,31 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? disgusted in Tagalog - English-Tagalog Dictionary | Glosbe Since when after the great tribulation of ancient Jerusalem has this gathering of the chosen ones been going on, and under guidance of what? Feminine of Ioudaios; the Judaean land, a region of Palestine. 15 "The prophet Daniel said that the disgusting thing that will cause destruction will stand in the holy place. 24:21, 22; 25:46) May they be among those favored ones to whom the great crowd in heaven will cry out: Praise Jah, you people! Not only the religious features and elements of this wicked system of things must be forever desolated, but all other parts of that worldwide system must be destroyed. As always, the first step is to read the text in literary, cultural, historical, and canonical contexts. Antiochus treated Israel with such violence and contempt that they rebelled against him. . (b)Christendom must be desolated in connection with the end of what system, and why? Woe to the pregnant women and those nursing a baby in those days! 11 Well then, is it the desolator? (a)What is that battle called, and where is it fought? 7:9-17; Matt. 12 What though, is pictured by the scarlet-colored wild beast that has seven heads and ten horns and on which Babylon the Great rides? 17:9-11. A prolonged form of a primary stao stah'-o; to stand, used in various applications. desolate in Tagalog - English-Tagalog Dictionary | Glosbe (Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures idols and the false gods they represented are depicted as disgusting things. What is the sign of the close of this age. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear. 8 After World WarI and down to World WarII this peace-preserving organization was known as the League of Nations. then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains. 7. (a)What does history show as to whether the chosen ones have waited till now to flee out of antitypical Jerusalem? Besides that inconvenient fact, the U.S. was not even a member of it. The interested reader may consult orthodox commentaries.) 30 Jesus words, immediately after, do not mean right after ancient Jerusalems great tribulation in 70C.E. The desolating of unbelieving Jewish Jerusalem in the year 70C.E. Mentioned also in Matthew 24:15, this is one of the signs of the end, when the antichrist sets up an abomination in the holy place and will command the people to worship it. The reader may wonder, Why so? The apocalyptic picture in Mt 24 verse29 also calls for sobriety of judgment.a. It may seem to us that they asked three questions: But a close reading shows that Jesus heard and answered two questions. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases on Amazon.com. Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. It cannot possibly apply to Jesus return. 34 Then at Gods predetermined time, the great tribulation that will surpass anything of previous human history will begin with surprising suddenness. Daniel 12:11 - Bible Gateway To read, know again, know certainly, recognize, discern. Read discussions, or register to add your comments or ask questions, (Most modern translations use the term abomination, rather than disgusting thing. For comparison check out, Calling to mind the words of the Lord Jesus, discerning Christians living in Judea and Jerusalem seized the opportunity. Down to everlasting desolation will go the antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem (Christendom). An integral part of Jesus detailed prophecy concerning his return and the conclusion of the system of things focused on the desolation of Jerusalem by a disgusting thing. And it was in that context that Jesus referred the reader to the prophecy of Daniel. It is the Almighty God, Jehovah God, the Author of the Holy Bible. Overconfident because of having been used to destroy the false religion, the Eighth World Power will make a final attempt to desolate the true worship of Jehovah God as an act of defiance of Jehovahs Godship and sovereignty. For the same reason, the following command not to go back to get a cloak and the woe for nursing mothers who must flee cannot refer to Jesus return. . Is the Watchtowers interpretation that the disgusting thing is presently the U.N. correct? Jehovah's Witnesses have also pre-identified the disgusting thing that will bring desolation; recognizing the United Nations as a disgusting thing in God's sight; since it is posed to become a world government, and as such, it presumes to accomplish what only God's kingdom can possibly accomplish. . The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom1999, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom1996. They say unto him, Yea, Lord. In all justice the whole system must end! Hence all along since 1919 they have been fleeing out of antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem. So what affects Babylon the Great must also affect Christendom. Here is the Christ, or, There! do not believe it. Christ Jesus showed this view to be in error when he gave the warning to his disciples: Therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place, (let the reader use discernment,) then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains. (Mt 24:15,16) These words show that the disgusting thing that causes desolation was not then past but future. Eusebius, the first great historian of the church, says that when the Romans fell upon Jerusalem, the church at Jerusalem . The line let the reader understand (24:15) means that those who read Matthewwhich would have been written before AD 70must be ready to flee when they see Roman armies besieging Jerusalem. Jerusalems desolation in 70C.E. The Watchtower first began teaching that the League of Nations was the original abomination as well as the manifestation of the symbolic scarlet-colored beast of Revelation back around 1929. (b)What question does this raise regarding the chosen ones of today? Any possibility that persons continuing in the practice of a disgusting thing might gain entrance into the New Jerusalem, the Lambs chaste bride class, is ruled out at Revelation 21:9, 10,27. Scholars generally agree that the first reference of these prophecies is the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes IV, who ruled Palestine from 175-64 B.C. When, whenever. What is the holy place and how will it be brought to desolation? Obviously, the desolation of Jerusalem, as horrific as it was, did not result in a great tribulation that obliged God to cut short on account of the chosen ones. The salvation and the glory and the power belong to our God, because his judgments are true and righteous. Attempting to stamp out the worship of Jehovah, Antiochus built an altar over the great altar of Jehovah and sacrificed upon this a pig to the Olympian Zeus (Jupiter). (b)With whom else must Jehovah God settle accounts, and by what means? onward. She, like the rest of Babylon the Great, will never be found again. (Rev. The national covenant with God, established on the basis of obedience to Gods law as given through the prophet Moses, does. . By the time that the great tribulation is due to begin upon antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem (Christendom), the angels will have gathered all the foreordained number of the chosen ones out from all partnership with this doomed system of things. On that account God can then cut short the number of the days of the great tribulation, that thereby some flesh may be saved. Matthew 24:15 - The Abomination of Desolation - Bible Hub All of them are armed, more heavily and destructively so than has been the case of the nations in all previous history. For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought. (Rev. This is the disgusting thing that is foretold to desolate Christendom, Gods Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom1975, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom1970, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom1999. That connection is confirmed in the 8th chapter of Daniel as well, where we read regarding the fierce-looking king: It exalted itself even against the Prince of the army, and from him the constant feature was taken away, and the established place of his sanctuary was thrown down. 13 Exactly so, the international organization for world peace and security springs from the preceding seven world powers or surviving relics of them, and it is in itself an eighth world power. The eighth chapter of Daniel makes that connection clear, as the context indicates the removal of the constant feature and the trampling of the holy place coincides with the fierce-looking king bringing to ruin the people made up of holy ones. The numerous prophecies of Daniel are complimentary, as well as harmonious with Revelation. (a)Why in this time of the end is the disgusting thing that causes desolation not the military people of the Roman Empire? Scientists describe core disgust as a mechanism of food rejection. (a)What other gathering under angelic guidance has been going on since 1935C.E.? This is the first installment in a new series that analyzes perplexing passages of the Bible. (a)What signal were the chosen ones of nineteen centuries ago given to flee at once from Judea? It seems likely that the numerous institutions of the United Nations, as well as associated institutions like the IMF, Bank of International Settlements, and the World Bank, stand poised to become a functioning world government in the future in the aftermath of the inevitable crash of the present economic and political system. (b)Survivors of that series of destructive acts will look back and see that it has all been what, as Jesus called it? 36 Boast for just a little while the Eighth World Power may, that it has desolated all false religion included in Babylon the Great, but it will never be able to boast that it will have desolated Gods only true religion, the miraculously preserved true Christianity. (b)By what time will the full number have been gathered out, allowing for God to do what? (b)What reason, then, is there for the Bible to call the international peace organization a disgusting thing or abomination? What? Sorry, there was an error loading the video. 24:3-15) This present-day system of things does not itself end with the desolating of antitypical Jerusalem (Christendom) and of the remainder of Babylon the Great. 1. Let the man on the housetop not come down to take the goods out of his house, and let the man in the field not return to pick up his outer garment. Abomination of Desolation | Ligonier Ministries (b)Is it at the desolation of Babylon the Great (including Christendom) that that system of things ends? All political rulers pictured by the ten horns, yes, in fact, the whole political system pictured by the scarlet-colored wild beast will hate her. I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days dressed in sackcloth.. Therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place(let the reader use discernment), then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains.. the present worldwide system of things has been in its time of the end. (Luke 21:24) The prophet Daniel associates the time of the end with the placing of the disgusting thing that is causing desolation when he writes: Make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of the end. . One that belongs to his generation, or one from the last days? There will be 1290 days from that time until the time that the terrible thing that destroys is set up. That empire has ceased to exist, and Rome today is the center of the most populous and powerful part of Christendom. Reliable history now proves that the gathering together of the anointed chosen ones of Jehovah God began in 1919, or after World WarI, and that in continues, at least to some extent, down till now. . . Not only that, but consider this: If the holy place represents Christendom then how is it possible that false Christs and false prophets are operating after the point at which the disgusting thing brings desolation? Properly, to stare at, i.e. According to Daniels prophecy, Da chapter eleven, verse 31 thirty-one, the disgusting thing is something that is put in place during the struggle between the king of the north and the king of the south. That verse reads: And they will certainly put in place the disgusting thing that is causing desolation. In this time of the end for both the democratic king of the south and the totalitarian king of the north, this disgusting thing that has been put in place has been the international organization for world peace and security. Who says so? The survivors on earth will look back at the desolating of Christendom and of all Babylon the Great and the supernatural destruction of all the remainder of this system of things as proving to be just what Jesus Christ foretold it would be. It is the disgusting thing! 14 Of the 127 members of the United Nations do the many non-Christian nations love Christendom? And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth king, but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.Rev. But this was only the Jewish interpretation of matters, not an inspired revelation. A mountain, hill. 18:21) This will be a great tribulation for Christendom, a tribulation from which all the rest of Babylon the Great will not be spared in this time of the end. In order to be true to the type of nineteen centuries ago, who is it that must have a hand in bringing this tribulation? Ancient Jewish Jerusalem was not a type of Babylon the Great but was a type of the most prominent and powerful part of Babylon the Great, namely, Christendom. In 24:4-14, the, Jesus is preparing his disciples for eventsmost of them extremely difficultthat will take place in their lifetime. He did not indicate any modern date to parallel the year 66C.E., neither any modern time period of three and a half years to correspond with the period of 66 to 70C.E. 24:15, 16) In the first fulfillment, the "standing in a holy place" occurred in 66 C.E . (a)Whom, then, does this indicate Christendoms desolator to be? Not only were the United States and the British Empire the principal creators of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War, but they will force the nations to accept the United Nations as a world government in the future. And a believer will not wantto flee. It should be noted, however, that Daniel 11:31-35 and 12:9, 11 connect a 'disgusting thing causing desolation' with "the time of the end." It is reasonable that the development of this latter expression of 'the disgusting thing causing desolation' in the time of the end should follow the . For that reason, it ought to be understood that the little horn that emerges from the ten is the same entity as the disgusting thing. Then, in 24:36, Jesus starts to speak exclusively about that daythat is, the last day. 18 The United Nations organization is described as a "disgusting thing" because it claims to be able to do something that only God's Kingdom can do bring world peace. The disciples then asked Jesus to explain: When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age? (24:3). The sheeplike ones, who are gathered to the right hand of the King Jesus Christ, will make up the flesh that will be saved by the cutting short of the days of tribulation on account of Gods chosen ones. So these sheeplike ones will not join the nations in beating themselves in lamentation when the Son of man makes it evident to all people on earth that he, although invisible as if enveloped with the clouds of heaven, is coming with power and great glory to destroy the goatlike persons.Matt. (b)What was the reason for this? This object of disgust, an idol, will cause desolation, causing those in Judea to flee to the mountains ( Matthew 24:16 ). Indeed that abomination did come in Roman form in AD 70. (Da 9:27) The popular view has generally followed early Jewish tradition in applying this expression to the profanation of Jehovahs temple at Jerusalem in the year 168B.C.E. 'Now when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION standing where it should not be let the reader understandthen those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. And they will put in place the disgusting thing that causes desolation., First, it is important to note that there is an obvious connection between the profanation of the sanctuary, the fortress and the removal of the so-called constant feature, as well as the putting in place of the disgusting thing that causes desolation. Yet, despite this, Christendom has been more forward than all the rest of her partners in Babylon the Great in riding the mightily armed Eighth World Power (The League of Nations and the United Nations), to have a kingdom over it, if possible. Verb - Present Imperative Active - 3rd Person Plural. Should they obey literally or metaphorically? 29 These words emphasize, not a flight in escape to various places of safety, but a gathering of the chosen ones by angels. 4. Also, the gathering has been done with worldwide announcement and notification, like a great trumpet sound, through the witness given both by word of mouth and by means of the printed publications of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in many languages. brought the end of the holy place, Jerusalem, the holy city. (Mt 27:53) However, the Scriptures direct our attention to a heavenly Jerusalem, the Messianic Kingdom, which is represented on earth by anointed Christians. 17,18. That terrible time of trouble is destined to coincide with the coming of Christ. And he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.. The fall of Jerusalem, Jesus return, and the end of the age were one complex event in their minds. "The daily sacrifice will be stopped.
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