[tabsternager]

“Using your rationale here, the ‘abomination of desolation’ is ‘armies surrounding Jerusalem’. Is that what the abomination of desolation means to you?”

What kind of army do you think the Roman army was? Here’s a quote from B.H. Carroll about the Roman army:

“The Roman sign was a straight staff, capped with a metallic eagle, and right under the eagle was a graven image of Caesar. Caesar claimed to be divine. Caesar exacted divine worship, and every evening when those standards were placed, the Roman legion got down and worshipped the image of Caesar thereof, and every morning at the roll call a part of the parade was for the whole legion to prostrate themselves before that graven image and worship it.”

[Uncle Chip]

So when did the Jews head for the hills??? 1]when they saw the soldiers with those staffs surrounding Jerusalem or 2]when the soldiers with those staffs were supposedly in the temple???

[fortheDeclaration]

“The Roman sign was a straight staff, capped with a metallic eagle, and right under the eagle was a graven image of Caesar. Caesar claimed to be divine. Caesar exacted divine worship, and every evening when those standards were placed, the Roman legion got down and worshipped the image of Caesar thereof, and every morning at the roll call a part of the parade was for the whole legion to prostrate themselves before that graven image and worship it.”

15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) (Matthew 24:15)

11And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Daniel 12:11)

None of these have anything to do with Roman Armies.