Abomination of Desolation

[Dawnofhope]

adrian,
The Abomination that causes desolation, that Jesus was speaking about, was the Roman armies, that first came in 66CE, then pulled away, then returned in 70CE and destroyed Jerusalem. Consider Matthew 24:15 also describes this Abomination that causes desolation as standing in a holy place. That Holy place was the Temple area in Jerusalem, where the Roman armies, unclean Gentiles, had partly undermined the Temple wall, before they pulled back and left.
Jesus told them that when they saw these things they were to leave Jerusalem as soon as the could. All Christians left Jerusalem as soon as the Roman armies left, with some going across the Jordan river to Pella, and other cities in the mountains East of the Jordan. By obeying what Jesus told them they were safe when the Roman armies returned in 70CE, and killed over a million Jews and carried off 96,000, of which many were killed later in the Coliseum, fighting animals, or professional Roman soldiers.

Agreed. There are other abominations but that is the most immediate one that Christ was referring to.

 

[MJFlores]

So what is the abomination?

Anyone who know this girl? She's the abomination.

 

[jtartar]

Agreed. There are other abominations but that is the most immediate one that Christ was referring to.

Adrian009,
Many of the prophecies that Jesus spoke about had a twofold fulfillment, The Abomination that causes Destruction is one.
The Abomination of Desolation of our day will be very shortly, The United Nations.
There are several Scriptures that prove this, and all the Scriptures must harmonize to be true.
Consider Revelation 13:11-18. These verses speak about this two horned beast, which is the United States and Britain, the Anglo-American world power, the 7th head of the Sevenheaded, scarlet beast, mentioned also in Revelation 17 chapter. The 7th head in the 13th chapter is also called. False Prophet, because it gives life and breath to the UN which turns out to be the 8th King, mentioned at Revelation 17:11.
Do not think that there is no one who understands Revelation. We are living in the Last Days of this system, so the Bible must be understood or else God could not Judge the world, Daniel 12:4, 1Corinthians 10:11.
There was a very intereting movie on TV a couple of nights ago, pertaining to the Presidency of Wilson, who actually started, what is now the UN, was called The League of Nations when he started it, just as the Bible states, in Revelation 13:13-15. That is when the Seventh Head of the wild Beast gives life and breath to the Scarlet Colored Beast. Then Revelation even shows what happened to it and why it would later be called The United Nations, Revelation 17:8. The League was here from 1920 until 1939 when Hitler started WW2, then it came back again in 1945 as the United Nations, which will be given rulership by the Ten Kings, and will become the 8th King, Revelation 17:11-13. Do you see how exactly these Scriptures fit what actually did happened??
There is so much in Revelation chapter 17 that it would take much time to explain it all. If you want to know any particular thing, I will be very happy to explain it to you. My explanation will fit all the Bible Scriptures, or else it will be inaccurate, they are Univocal, only one way fits all, Intertextuality!!!
Agape!!!

 

[Dawnofhope]

Adrian009,
Consider Revelation 13:11-18. These verses speak about this two horned beast, which is the United States and Britain, the Anglo-American world power, the 7th head of the Sevenheaded, scarlet beast, mentioned also in Revelation 17 chapter. The 7th head in the 13th chapter is also called. False Prophet, because it gives life and breath to the UN which turns out to be the 8th King, mentioned at Revelation 17:11.
Do not think that there is no one who understands Revelation. We are living in the Last Days of this system, so the Bible must be understood or else God could not Judge the world, Daniel 12:4, 1Corinthians 10:11.
There was a very intereting movie on TV a couple of nights ago, pertaining to the Presidency of Wilson, who actually started, what is now the UN, was called The League of Nations when he started it, just as the Bible states, in Revelation 13:13-15. That is when the Seventh Head of the wild Beast gives life and breath to the Scarlet Colored Beast. Then Revelation even shows what happened to it and why it would later be called The United Nations, Revelation 17:8. The League was here from 1920 until 1939 when Hitler started WW2, then it came back again in 1945 as the United Nations, which will be given rulership by the Ten Kings, and will become the 8th King, Revelation 17:11-13. Do you see how exactly these Scriptures fit what actually did happened??
Agape!!!

Thank you for sharing your understanding of some verses in the book of revelation. You may be interesting in a Baha'i perspective in regards to Revelation 12: 3-4 that presents an alternative view of the seven head beast as relating to Militant Islam and the vast Ummayad empire that extends to the regions mention in Daniel 11:36-45. I don't believe the United Nations is the beast.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.” 2 These signs are an allusion to the dynasty of the Umayyads who dominated the Muḥammadan religion. Seven heads and seven crowns mean seven countries and dominions over which the Umayyads had power: they were the Roman dominion around Damascus; and the Persian, Arabian and Egyptian dominions, together with the dominion of Africa—that is to say, Tunis, Morocco and Algeria; the dominion of Andalusia, which is now Spain; and the dominion of the Turks of Transoxania. The Umayyads had power over these countries. The ten horns mean the names of the Umayyad rulers—that is, without repetition, there were ten names of rulers, meaning ten names of commanders and chiefs—the first is Abú Súfyán and the last Marván—but several of them bear the same name. So there are two Muáviyá, three Yazíd, two Valíd, and two Marván; but if the names were counted without repetition 70 there would be ten. The Umayyads, of whom the first was Abú Súfyán, Amír of Mecca and chief of the dynasty of the Umayyads, and the last was Marván, destroyed the third part of the holy and saintly people of the lineage of Muḥammad who were like the stars of heaven.

Bahá'í Reference Library - Some Answered Questions, Pages 67-72