Trying to interpret obscurisms from past saints' writings as validation of a current belief while condeming Harry Potter seems, well looney to me.
1. Your re-definition of the abomination of desolation from Antiochus Epiphanes to Mohammad.
2. The abomination of desolation is clearly shown in Revelation to be a world leader/dictator.
Also, desolation literally means to make soiled, or dirty. - The word has been twisted in the 20th century to be a synonym for bleak.
NO WAY!! NO WAY!! PAUL NEVER FORESAW ISLAM!! NEVER!! NO WAY!! NO WAY!!
........ISLAM IS NOT IN PROPHECY,,,,AMERICA IS NOT IN PROPHECY!!
The article is fantacy and vanity!! BABEL-BABEL
THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANCE OF EITHER ISLAM OR AMERICA BECAUSE THE NEW JEWISH TEMPLE IS NOT YET BUILT.
GOD's HOLY PLACE OF SIGNIFICANCE IS TO BE THE HOLY PLACE IN THE NEWLY REBUILT JEWISH TEMPLE.
WHEN YOU SEE THAT NEW JEWISH TEMPLE REBUILT,........THEN and ONLY THEN,...START YOUR PROPHETIC TIME CLOCK FOR 'SIGNS of TEMPLE TIMES'....!!
Bottom Line::.........Don't be an 'alarmist' until the New Jewish Temple is Built!!
Please explain why specifically the Eastern Orthodox churches. Where did this come from ?
Huh, is that why Clinton was so nice to Osama?
There are some strengths to your speculation.
1. The attempt to explain the "abomination of desolation."
2. An additional attempt to explain the "time of the Gentiles."
3. The gutting of preterism with Paul's warning believers NOT to believe the event had occurred in his day and would not until man of sin revealed.
There are also weaknesses.
1. There simply is no evidence that Paul ever visited Mecca. Just because he visited Arabia is no reason to assume he visited Mecca.
2. The Temple did not exist for Mohammed to "sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is god."
3. The mystical play with "black stone/white stone" is not mentioned in scripture. Any attempt to assume a direct interpretation from Revelation is just that: an assumption/speculation.
I do commend you on your efforts to piece together the puzzle. I encourage you to continue looking and rearranging the pieces. Your theory, in its present form, isn't quite there yet.
No, Paul most assuredly does not "tell us: anything at all about Mecca. For those who want to read for themselves, poke here.
There's no discussion about the "Cult of Mecca" at all -- instead, there's an allusion to what is usually called the Anti-Christ. What I do see, is you trying to fob off on us an anti-Islam screed diguised as Biblical exegesis.
Interestingly, Paul leads that chapter off with this:
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren, not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
An interesting couterpoint to a commentary that assures us, Yet that wrath is someday to end, someday soon. The prophetic numbers are given, but that is another subject.
Perhaps you should take Paul's warning to heart.....