The seventieth week of Daniel exposition is not given to James, John, Peter, and Andrew (and us you might say) as a comfort, unless the surety of His finishing His judgments is a comfort to you. The exposition gave details to see even now as the proof that He is going to return and set foot on this putrifacted Earth, as Gabriel was instructed to show Daniel.
The key to unravel this seeming puzzle is the standing of the abomination of desolation in the Holy of Holies. This same thing happened with Antiochus Epiphanes when he placed a statue of Zeus in the Holy of Holies, in 167 BC.
When the Romans razed the Temple to the ground, they did not commit this act of desecration in the Holy of Holies. They could not have done so because fire destroyed the temple before they could raid it and sack it, which ticked off Titus since he expected to get lots of Gold from the inside. The Roman soldiers gathered their banners at the Eastern gate and worshipped them, but they did not commit the abomination that makes desolate. But Jesus says this will happen mid-way in Dabiels seventieth week! So the Temple will have to be rebuilt and dedicated, having a 'Holy of Holies' section that the man of sin enters and stand there proclaiming himself to be god ... with TV will no doubt cover, so the whole world will see the desecration live.
I never thought the Romans had committed the Abomination made Desolate. Antiochus had done so during the time of the Maccabees but it was obvious that wasn’t the same abomination that Jesus warned that was coming as well as Revelation and Daniel. Antiochus called himself Epiphanes(God on Earth) had a pig slaughted in the temple, set up images and many priests and Jewish folks killed sparking massive rebellion. He historically is seen as a “type” or forerunner of the Hideous thing that is coming...that Satan, indwelling the first beast will declare himself God in the temple and throw the gauntlet down in God’s face!
You don’t want to be around on Earth and have the beast’s mark when that happens.
Thank you for your insights, dear brother in Christ!
Ask a few questions.
God always provides a place for us to worship Him.
Where is that Temple today?
What will have to happen to change that location?
Why is the Mark of the Beast so forewarned a couple of millennia prior to the event?
What causes His return when even the Holocaust didn’t spark the second coming?