
Originally Posted by
randyk
This is difficult, and I try to "reverse engineer" it, beginning with NT assumptions. I begin with my already-stated view that the Abomination is the Roman Army come to commit Desolation against the temple "wing." If we begin with the idea that Luke's version of the scene is a Roman Army encircling Jerusalem, to desolate it, and then compare that with the AoD of Matthew and Mark, we can then assume the AoD is the encirclement of Jerusalem by the Roman Army.
This view appears to be confirmed by Daniel himself who in ch. 9 indicates that the "people of the one to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary." This is the exact situation Jesus was in when he was predicting what Luke referred to as "the encirclement of Jerusalem by armies."
Once we've established the context for the AoD, it is easier to try to reconcile this history with the actual language used. Since I'm not good with the Hebrew language, I've been taking my discussion to my brother, who is not an expert, but pretty capable of looking at it grammatically. We're still going through this process.
At present my view is that Jesus is the Anointed One who is to come to accomplish 6 things in the context of the Jewish People and the city of Jerusalem.
24 Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
What happens to the city of Jerusalem is that people of the ruler to come will *desolate* it. What happens to Messiah is he will be "cut off."
26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.
Finally, he, referring back to Messiah, will "confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ " This means that the 70 Weeks period is concluded with Messiah confirming the 6 listed items, fulfilling God's covenant with Israel.
And this is explained as his putting "an end to sacrifice and offering." Jesus, by making himself the final sacrifice for sin, terminated animal sacrifice and offerings under the Law. He made the final and acceptable offering to God, through which we also make an acceptable offering to God.
But then it is explained how this Messianic offering relates to the desolation of Jerusalem and the sanctuary. "And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on it.”
"He" refers back to the "one who is to come" and whose "people," an army, come to destroy Jerusalem and the temple. This seems logical to me, if we begin with my assumptions.
What this means is that as Messiah offers himself to God to be "cut off," or killed, the temple will experience an attack from the "people of the one to come." The "abomination" here appears to be the army itself, until the army itself is destroyed. That happened after Cestius Gallus withdrew from Jerusalem and was defeated. I don't know if this is the proper interpretation, but it seems a possible one.
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