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To: 1000 silverlings; Uncle Chip
The altar was profaned and the abomination was “set up”. Read the OT prophets. It’s not a big mystery and neither is Daniel

Read the historical accounts of what happened in the Roman siege.

The Temple was burnt down, no one set up any abomination in it.

417 posted on 11/08/2007 11:12:32 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! - Lincoln)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Read the prophets


473 posted on 11/09/2007 9:19:32 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: fortheDeclaration
The Temple was burnt down, no one set up any abomination in it.

There's a mosque there now. A pagan place of worship. I'd say it's been pretty abominated.

549 posted on 11/09/2007 5:18:22 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("Dispensationalism -- threat or menace?")
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To: fortheDeclaration; Dr. Eckleburg; topcat54; Lee N. Field; Lord_Calvinus
Read the historical accounts of what happened in the Roman siege. The Temple was burnt down, no one set up any abomination in it.

Since you won't read the prophets, I'll give you a short summary, since your historical facts are lacking.

Hundreds of years before the temple burned down, and whether it was the first temple or the second one, the Israelites went astray, and set up abominations in their temple. They openly worshipped other gods, shorted God on the tithes, offered up lame and diseased animals. It got so bad that Malachi made this pronouncement against them.

Malachi 2:11

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

But before this, Jeremiah, Isaiah, etc. warned them as well.

First and foremost, the Jewish priests desecrated the altar, which is why Jesus cleansed it, not once but 2 times, at the beginning of his ministry and at the end of his ministry.

Not only that but you have overlooked the other conquerors of Jerusalem, most notably the Seleucids, and the worst sort of antiChrist Antiochus IV who appointed the high priests who "set up" a system totally alien to Jewish law, and which was still in effect in Jesus day, which is why he said

"It is written: 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you are making it a den of thieves." Matthew 21:13

And this was "written" back in Jeremiah's day

Jeremiah 7:9

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

Then of course you get the Hasmoneans whose reign culminated in the Herods, Idumeans(Edomite, son of Esau) as Kings of the Jews.

Finally, we have the advent of Christ and when He left, the last vestiges of God is gone from their temples and they are left desolate. The only temple that will ever be rebuilt by God is the invisible one made not by human hands and so the prophecy is fulfilled that Malachi 3:1

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

553 posted on 11/09/2007 10:45:20 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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