Abomination of Desolation

Q. "What is the Abomination of Desolation?"

A. The term "Abomination of Desolation" in Hebrew is "sikutz somem" and means "an idol that causes horror". In Mt 24.1-15, Yeshua is on the Mt of Olives overlooking the Temple and it was during the season of Passover.

That information is important because it will relate directly to His prophecy. He says that this idol will "stand in the Holy Place" (Kodesh HaKodeshim in the Temple) and is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet. So, Daniel speaks of this idol in Dan. 9.27, 11.31,12.11. We also have a time frame in Daniel that will pin-point when this will be set up. The Tribulation period is 2520 days long.

We know Yeshua returns on a Yom Kippur, so working backwards 1290 days and we come to the date Adar 10, around the feast of Purim and near the half-way point of the Tribulation. Dan 9.24-27 also gives us a reference point to work from. Rev 13 tells us that this idol is the image of the False Messiah. We have a lot of information now. First, we know it is an idol, not an action as some people teach. Second, it is the image of the False Messiah. Third, It is set up around Adar 10 and stands in the Holy Place of the Temple. That may not be the only place it is set up. Ezekiel 8 describes an idol being set up near the Sacrifice Gate, north of the Temple altar. In addition, Antiochus Epiphanes, who the Scriptures point to as a picture of the False Messiah, set up an image of himself as Zeus Kyrios on the Altar itself. So we now have 3 sites this image could be placed, and one site for sure.

We know that the False Messiah will teach people that they do not have to keep the commandments, and will persecute those that do. That is always the case with the enemies of G-d. They don't keep the commandments and teach others to do the same. The False Prophet will be the spiritual leader of apostate,Replacement Theology Christianity and will lead people to believethat the False Messiah is "Jesus." The idol itself is described in the prophets and especially in Isaiah Ch 40-46. It is described as in the image of a man fastened to a tree, worn around the neck with gold or silver chains, wooden, found in houses, carried on the shoulder, fastened with nails, compared to G-d and called G-d.

Now, if apostate Christianity is the religion of the False Messiah, and they have idols, what idol is the image of the False Messiah and meets the above description? It's a crucifix, and that is a major candidate for this idol. It is already accepted by Christians everywhere. If the Temple services were going, with animal sacrifices, and the False Messiah will put an end the the sacrifices, which he will, what better place to put this idol than the Holy Place, at the Sacrifice Gate, and the Altar to remind the people that "I ("Jesus) did away with the sacrifices".

This will seem fitting and good to those who disobey the L-rd. The crucifix and the imageon this idol is not a mistake. Christian religious art relating to pictures of "Jesus" can be directlytraced back to an image on what is known as "the Shroud of Turin".

This shroud is said to be the burial cloth of "Jesus", but in reality it isn't and can be disproved scripturally. For instance, the wounds on the shroud are not consistent with Isa 50, Isa 52, and Psa 22. There are burial problems. The buried people with winding strands of linen like a mummy. Look and see how Lazarus was buried in Jn 11, and he could walk out, and people were told to "unwind him." In Jn 20it says there was a "face cloth" laying by itself in Yeshua's tomb. If the shroud was his burial cloth, it should have no face. Also, there are coins over the eyes of the man on the shroud, a pagan custom. The Messiah would never have been buried with pagan customs. These coins were palced over the eyes in order to pay the boatman on the river Styx to carry the deceased across to the afterlife.

A Duke University Professor named Dr. Wanger did a study of the face of the shroud and a statue of Zeus from 30 C.E. He concluded that the face on the shroud was the exact face (79 point of congruety, 40-60 needed in court to prove the identity of someone) as that on the statue of Zeus. We know from history that Antichus Epiphanes put his face on statues of Zeus, and scriptures says he is a type of the False Messiah. So, we know the face on the shroud is not Yeshua, we know that it is the image of "Zeus Kyrios" and that would hold up in caourt. We know that Antiochus put his own image on statues, so the shroud has the same image as statues of Antiochus, and it is the shroud that was used as the pattern for images of "Jesus" that we still see today. Therefore, The Abomination of Desolation will be a statue of "Jesus", who the False Messiah will claim to be. He will do exactly what Antiochus epiphanes did, and this idol may be a crucifix, the accepted symbol of Replacement Theology Christianity. There is nothing new under the sun.