John Tweedie - The Abomination of Desolation

July 7, 2026 | 27:32

Rev. Dr. John Tweedie calls on Christians to express love in action to the people of Israel by presenting a biblical perspective of God’s plan for Israel and the church.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Abomination of Desolation | July 7, 2026

How likely is it that a new
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Jewish temple could be erected on the temple mount behind me?
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Especially when there are two islamic mosques there today.
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That's next.
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In this episode of the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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It's very early morning on the mount of olives.
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In fact, it's just after 6:00 and the sun is
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Just coming up, rising in the east.
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And so i'm wearing my jacket because it's really cool
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This morning.
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But we've asked the question,
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How likely is it that a new jewish temple could be erected
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On the temple mount behind me with two mosques of islam there?
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You can imagine this would be a flashpoint
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That could lead to world war three.
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And yet, in jesus's prophetic discourse in matthew 24,
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He said, it's implicit in his words in verse 15,
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Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation
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Spoken of by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place.
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Whoever reads, let him understand
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There is only one place, one holy place, that that can mean,
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And that has to be in a jewish temple
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On the temple mount directly behind me.
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What is the abomination of
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Desolation jesus mentioned in his prophetic discourse
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About the end times?
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And what does this have to do with the lord's return?
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The abomination of desolation that jesus mentions,
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Is a reference, of course, to the prophet daniel.
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And an abomination
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Is something that's detestable in the sight of god.
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And that which brings horror.
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And this is predicted by the prophet daniel.
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And what jesus is speaking about
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Seems to be the person of the antichrist
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Coming into the temple in jerusalem
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And desecrating that temple and dedicating it
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To someone other than the true and living god of israel.
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Many wonder what the abomination of desolation is now.
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Jesus refers to daniel and implies that something like
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What will happen in the future has already happened.
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And we know that antiochus epiphanies
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From the seleucid empire.
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He came and set up a, a statue
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Or an altar to zeus in the temple itself.
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And so jesus is looking back at what daniel said as a picture
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Of a future leader who will come and it'll be a sacrilege,
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And he'll claim to be god, and it'll be in the very temple
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Of the jewish people when that will happen.
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Could the abomination of desolation jesus mentioned
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Be the antichrist standing in the temple in jerusalem?
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Or could it be an image or idol
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Associated with the antichrist that is placed there?
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Yeshua mentions that one of the markers
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That the signs
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Of the end of the age
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Will be
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That in the temple area there will be
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An abomination of desolation.
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So as we do a little research
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And try to figure out what is that?
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We find it three times mentioned in the book of daniel.
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From my reading
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It says that we will see it's set up.
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So whoever this leader is, let's.
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If it's satan or if it's demonic forces,
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It's an antichrist spirit, whatever it may be,
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As it gathers the armies of the world against the believers,
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Against the people of god.
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But all three times in daniel it says that the abomination
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Of desolation is set up.
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So i don't interpret that being a person.
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I don't interpret that being an individual.
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But it's something that is set up and it's repeated
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Several times that it's always set up in the temple.
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I've heard many speculations about what it could be.
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It could be a new sacrificial system.
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It could be a new religious system.
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It could be idolatry.
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It could be the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of satan,
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The kingdom of the antichrist that's being set up.
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And it's ruling its throne.
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Its rulership is from the temple in jerusalem.
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All of that is plausible.
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All of that is very possible.
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But i cannot say
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Specifically what it is because it becomes
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Something that gets set up.
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Daniel doesn't say what it is,
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And you sure doesn't say what it is,
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But it appears that we will know what it is by the nature
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Of what's being described and the timeline,
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And where it reveals itself being set up in the temple.
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So i generally stay very flexible on this.
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While it looks like we will be able to acknowledge
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It, we will be able to interpret what it is at that moment.
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I don't think we can say today what it is
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Because it has not yet been set up,
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And the bible
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Doesn't give us any definition
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Of what it is that is going to be set up.
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How could daniel know about this abomination
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That makes desolate while he was living
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As a jewish exile in babylon some 2500 years ago,
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500 years before jesus referenced his prophecy
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And affirmed daniel as a prophet,
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Amos chapter three, verse seven, that god doesn't
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Do anything except to reveal it to the prophets.
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And we know that daniel was a prophet.
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So many of the things that he prophesied
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Have already come to pass,
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And there are more yet to come to pass.
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Well, daniel is one of the great prophets of the bible,
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A seer, a man who received visions from heaven.
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He was way ahead of his time,
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Not just centuries, thousands of years before his time.
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And so it's not a problem, to for me to understand that
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Prophetically he saw clear early,
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These things in the end times and they were revealed to him
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And he faithfully wrote them down.
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He predicted the things that jesus also prophesied
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That for us are still yet to come.
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Daniel seems to have revelation of this abomination
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By having already had previous information about the temple.
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Because remember,
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The people of israel had the temple,
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And through centuries of disobedience
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They were then judged and disciplined
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By god, sent into exile.
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Daniel was one of those.
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So he has previous knowledge of the temple
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And how it used to operate.
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But god gives revelation to daniel.
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He sees and dreams he sees, in visions
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He sees and interpretations
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He scenes he sees in inside, in symbols.
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And god gives him the spirit of interpretation to these things.
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So daniel, when he repeats it three different times,
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He has seen something through
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Revelation that we don't necessarily see right now.
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Yeshua, the one who gave daniel that vision or those dreams
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And the revelation yeshua knows about it.
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That's why he references it on the timeline.
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But again, in none of the places do we find out
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What it actually is.
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We just see when it happens, where it happens
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A little bit of the outworking of it,
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But we don't know exactly what is the unique element
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That's being set up that daniel saw through revelation.
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Could the holy place, this abomination, desecrate,
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Be the holy of holies, or the most holy place
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In a third temple in jerusalem, one that has yet to be built,
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This abomination that will desecrate it is a place.
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It's a holy place.
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We know that the holiest place on the planet
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Is the temple mount, and where the temple of solomon stood.
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So i believe that there will be a rebuilding
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Of solomon's temple. it will be there
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In the holy place that we will see this occur.
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The holy place that is spoken about in connection
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With the abomination of desolation
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Is the holy place of the temple in jerusalem.
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And the temple that was built by solomon had the outer court,
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And then the holy place where only the priests could go.
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And then within the holy place there was the holy of holies.
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And this was where the presence of god was living.
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And the high priest would only go once a year
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On the day of atonement.
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So to to enter those holy places,
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Where the presence of god is living and to desecrate
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It is truly something detestable in the sight of god,
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And in the sight of those who are faithful to him.
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And this is what is predicted to happen in these end times.
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Could this act of sacrilege be the most offensive thing
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Satan could do as an affront to the almighty god?
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Since the temple in jerusalem was god's chosen dwelling
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Place on earth, and the only place on earth
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Where god said his name would remain forever.
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When god gave the instructions first
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About the tabernacle and later allowed the temple to be built,
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It was built on the structure of an outer court
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And then an inner court, and then the most holy place,
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Or the holy of holies and the holy of holies.
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Only the high priest could enter in, and he could only enter
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Once a year on the day of yom kippur, the day of atonement.
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So since that is the most holy place,
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It would be natural for satan to look at god's most holy place
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And to say, that's why i want to set up
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The greatest abomination against god.
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We could call that the abomination
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That causes desolation.
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So it shouldn't surprise us that that would be the location
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Of whatever it is that satan sets up,
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That he would do it in god's most holy place, or the location
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Of the holy of holies.
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This would be very consistent with satan's patterns
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Of perverting anything that god has established as good
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And evil individual empowered by satan,
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And a futile attempt to displace the true christ.
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Indeed,
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We may be seeing the first waves of this evil last days agenda.
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As morality gives way to all forms of wickedness,
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Lawlessness abounds and corruption
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And deception run rampant in high places of government
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And law enforcement.
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In other words,
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These prophesied dark times could already be upon us.
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If so, the appearance of the abomination of desolation
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Is closer than ever.
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Oh, don't go away.
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After this short break, doctor
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John tweedie returns with his teaching.
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Our media today is filled with
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Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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It seems that the world is falling apart.
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This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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Israel must deal with the challenges
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Few other countries will ever face,
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Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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In his matthew 24 discourse,
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Jesus gave many prophetic signs that we can easily understand
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Wars, rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes.
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Those are all things that we can understand.
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But then he said something that was a mystery,
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I'm sure, to his listeners and remains a mystery today.
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And in fact,
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We can only understand this by comparing scriptures
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And several different prophecies.
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To get a better insight of what jesus was alluding to.
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It's found in matthew 24, in verse 15.
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Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation
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Spoken up by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place,
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Whoever reads, let him understand.
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The truth is, most people will not understand.
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But let's see if we can unlock this mystery
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About this abomination of desolation.
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And of course, we must go first of all to
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The book of the prophet daniel, because jesus
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Mentions daniel in connection with this reference.
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So i go to daniel chapter nine.
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Let's remember who daniel was.
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He was a young, boy in jerusalem,
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Along with thousands of other young boys and girls,
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Who was taken captive from jerusalem to babylon
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By the babylonian armies under king nebuchadnezzar.
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Now he was anointed of god.
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He was faithful to god, and in fact,
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He rose up through the ranks in babylon
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To the highest levels of the diplomatic corps.
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And then when the babylonians were defeated by a military
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Alliance of the medes and persians
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Once and again, daniel rose up through the ranks,
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Even though there were plots against him and his.
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Those that were jealous of him
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Tried to have him killed, tried to destroy him.
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They caught him at prayer, praying, and honoring his god.
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When everybody in babylon was honoring the babylonian god.
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In fact, the king, at the time.
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Anyway, daniel stood his ground and he remained faithful.
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And because of that, god anointed this young man.
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He never got back to jerusalem, as far as we know.
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I'm quite sure he died in babylon, but
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He served his god faithfully to the end of his days.
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So god gave him dreams and visions,
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And used them actually to impress king nebuchadnezzar
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In the first instance, and then other people after that.
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And daniel simply,
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Proved that his god was the one true god.
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But his book is full
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Of mysteries, and even he couldn't understand
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Much of what he was hearing and seeing.
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And so angels had to come
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And help them understand, the dreams and visions.
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But in any case, in daniel chapter nine,
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We have this intriguing timeline,
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Which seems to be of history in advance.
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And in verse 20 we read this now while i was speaking,
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Praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people israel.
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And this he was overcome by what he was seeing,
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And it was judgments to come.
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And he thought all of this applied to israel.
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So he's confessing for them and for himself
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And presenting my supplications
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Before the lord my god, for the holy mountain of my god.
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The holy mountain that he refers to
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Has to be the temple mount behind me, which,
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He probably witnessed its destruction,
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The destruction of the temple.
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And then, of course, he was carried away captive to babylon.
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But then he says that the man gabriel appeared to him
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To help him understand.
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And we would believe that that was the archangel gabriel,
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Who had come more than once to help daniel understand
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The dreams and visions that god was giving him.
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Verse 22.
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And he informed me and talked with me and said, oh, daniel,
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I have now come forth to give you skill to understand.
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At the beginning of your supplications
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The command went out,
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And i have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved.
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Imagine hearing that when you're an exile in babylon,
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That god loves you.
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We all need to know that god loves us.
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Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.
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Now gabriel gives daniel a time frame which,
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Even as i stand here today, is difficult to understand.
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And the only way we can even begin is by interpreting nation.
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And in fact, we can do it from the perspective of of history,
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Which is helpful to us, in the understanding
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Verse 24.
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Now i'll have to i'll have to do this quickly
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Because there is so much in this.
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But basically 70 weeks are determined for your people.
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And for your holy city to finish the transgression,
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To make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity,
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To bring in everlasting righteousness
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The seal of vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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That's the whole panorama of history, from daniel's day
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Basically to the end of time, when all things are finished.
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But it's really in three phases, and i'll do it this way.
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The first phase is the rebuilding of the temple
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In jerusalem after the babylonian exile.
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The second phase is the coming of the messiah
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Figure, who then is cut off.
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And then there's a third phase, which seems to be the peace
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Treaty the antichrist establishes
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With israel and presumably with other nations.
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And of course, then desecrating the temple.
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It's all in here, but the only way
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We can understand it is by interpretation.
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And so between the second phase, when messiah appears
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And is killed or cut off,
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There's a long interval until the antichrist comes.
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But let me make it a little bit easier by talking
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First of all about the first phase,
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The rebuilding of the temple after the babylonian exile.
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For that we go to the book of ezra.
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And here's what we read in.
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This really marks the end of the babylonian captivity,
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Which jeremiah said would only last 70 years.
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Daniel understood jeremiah's prophecy, so he was
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He knew in advance that israel would not stay in babylon.
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He did, but israel did not.
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Now, in the first year of cyrus, king of persia,
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Remember the medes and persians overcame the babylonians
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And displaced them.
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So now there's a new king governing the land of babylon.
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Now in the first year of cyrus, king of persia,
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That the word of the lord
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By the mouth of jeremiah might be fulfilled.
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Notice that the word of the lord by the mouth of jeremiah.
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This is a reference to the 70 year captivity ending,
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And so ezra knows this as well.
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The lord stirred up the spirit of cyrus, king of persia.
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Interestingly, the lord can move the leaders of nations
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When he chooses to, because he's the sovereign
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God of the whole earth.
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And we need to be praying accordingly
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That god will change the minds and direction
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Of some of the leaders we have today,
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Because they're
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Taking the nations in the absolute wrong direction.
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We all know this.
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We can see it
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So that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom
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And also put it in writing, saying, thus says cyrus,
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King of persia, all the kingdoms of the earth,
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The lord god of heaven has given me, and he has commanded me
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To build him a house at jerusalem which is in judah.
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This is incredible that this persian king
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Is decreeing, this for the holy city of jerusalem.
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And remember, daniel is praying all the time of but all of us.
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In any case, who is among you of all his people?
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May his god be with him and let him go up to jerusalem,
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Which is in judah,
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And build the house of the lord god of israel.
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He is god, which is in jerusalem.
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And whoever is left in any place where he dwells,
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Let the men of his place
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Help them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock.
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Besides the freewill offerings for the house of god
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Which is in jerusalem.
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So as we can see from the pen of ezra,
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The first phase of what gabriel shared
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With daniel, the timeline of the future
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Was initiated by king cyrus of persia,
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The return of the exiles to israel, and the rebuilding
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Of the temple which would become the second temple.
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And then, of course, king herod would do even more to that
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Temple and embellish it much more later.
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The second phase has to do with the coming of the messiah
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And the messiah being cut off.
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And then i mentioned earlier about the interval
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Between verse 26 and verse 27.
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Then he, whoever this mysterious
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He is, and i believe it is the antichrist figure to come,
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He shall confirm a covenant with many for one week.
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Let me say for seven years.
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And that's what many scholars believe this means.
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But in the middle of the week
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He shall bring it in to sacrifice an offering.
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And as we've seen over and over again, this priest proposes
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That a temple will be on the temple mount in the distance
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If he's able to stop the sacrifices and offerings
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Taking place.
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And then this reference that jesus gives to
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What daniel prophesied, and on the wing of abominations
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Shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation
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Which is determined is poured out on the desolate.
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So, in other words, the antichrist will reign
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For a time until christ brings an end to his reign.
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Now when we go to matthew 24, we can better understand
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What jesus was alluding to when he said this.
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Therefore, when you see the abomination of desolation
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Spoken up by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place,
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Daniel prophesied this 500 years
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Earlier, then jesus is drawing attention to it.
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Whoever reads, let him understand.
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But what is the abomination of desolation?
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This mysterious reference that jesus and daniel both give?
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I'll give you the answer with i believe after this short
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Break.
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If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
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The bible says,
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If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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And believe in your heart that god raised him
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From the dead, you will be saved.
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C4i that simply means we are christians
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Who care about israel,
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And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
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Because they are suffering so much.
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First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
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7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
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And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
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We're here to help the less fortunate,
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The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
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Special children that need 24 seven care.
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But we can't do it alone.
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We need your help. please.
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You'll see the numbers on the screen.
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You'll see the websites that we have.
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Please go to the phone or go to the website.
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Make a donation.
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Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
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Thank you.
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But who or
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What is the abomination of desolation?
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As we've seen many times in the prophetic connection series,
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We speak often of the antichrist figure who is to come
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And he really antichrist means in place of the true christ.
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So he is satan's counterfeit.
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And we know from revelation 13
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That he is the beast that rises out of the sea.
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But there's a second beast,
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And we believe that this is the false prophet.
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Now there better spelled out as the scriptures unfold,
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And in revelation.
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And so we read in verse 14, in fact, the second beast,
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I'll give you the context in revelation 13 and verse 11,
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Then i saw another beast coming up out of the earth,
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And he had two horns
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Like a lamb, but spoke and spoke like a dragon.
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And he exercises all the authority
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Of the first beast, meaning the antichrist
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In his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell
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In it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed,
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Which suggests that somehow the antichrist is going
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To receive a mortal wound, but survive somehow.
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And you can imagine how the world would be impressed
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By something like that.
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But it will be by the power of satan.
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He performs great signs, so he even makes fire come down
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From heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
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And this is the most important part
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About the abomination of desolation.
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And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs
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Which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast.
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The antichrist, telling those who dwell on the earth
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To make an image to the beast
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Who was wounded by the sword and live.
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He was granted power to give breath
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To the image of the beast.
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But the image of the beast should both speak
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And cause as many as would not worship
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The image of the beast to be killed.
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So here's what i believe.
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This is all about.
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I believe that an image will be established.
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To bring
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Honor to the antichrist and then, in a sense, to satan.
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But this image is given special powers to speak,
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And those who will not worship will be punished accordingly.
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And i believe what
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By scriptures, other interpretations, the antichrist
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Desecrating the holy of holies in the new temple in jerusalem.
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But i think also that the image of the antichrist
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Is placed there, and this is an abomination
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In the sight of almighty god, because the holy of holies
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Was the dwelling place of god in the tabernacle first,
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And then in the first temple and in the second temple.
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So it is by interpretation.
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We understand then, that the abomination of desolation
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Is the antichrist sitting us god in the temple.
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As paul explained in second sets alone in chapter two.
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But it is, i believe, at the same time,
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This image of the antichrist that is placed in place.
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If you like, of the ark of the covenant that symbolized
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The presence of the mighty god, the holy god of israel,
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Now we'll look more at the great tribulation period
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And what the antichrist is going to do and what
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Is going to require,
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Of people
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That will make it difficult for christians
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To survive.
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Thanks so much for watching.
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Be sure to join us next time for the great tribulation.
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John Tweedie - The Abomination of Desolation

July 7, 2026 | 27:32

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