Thursday, September 5, 2024

Daniel 11: 3 interpretations

It is difficult to understand Daniel 11 because there are three ideas of how it fulfills, mainly Daniel 11:31:

31MSG The bodyguards surrounding him will march in and desecrate the Sanctuary and citadel. They’ll throw out the daily worship and set up in its place the obscene sacrilege.

31NASB 31 Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

The term "abomination of desolation",  "obscene sacrilege" may refer to:
. the idol placed by Antiochus Epiphanes
. the eagle standard, the bird of Jupiter, sacrificed to by Titus' soldiers within the sacred precincts, at the destruction of Jerusalem
. a future event.

Jesus mentions the "abomination of desolation" referring to the destruction of the temple:

15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

And this term is also used in Daniel 9:

26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death(BR) and will have nothing.[g] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:(BS) War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.(BU) 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’[h] In the middle of the ‘seven’[i] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[j] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

Thus, we have more pointers to the Romans because in Daniel 9, the abomination happens after the death of the Messiah, and Jesus referred to Daniel as an event that would happen in the future.

Anyway, it is difficult to take Daniel 11 and have a clear understanding.
Daniel 11 tells me that there is persecution to the people of the Lord, but the Lord in control.

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