THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION

It is clear that according to how one believes that the 'interpretation' of the Bible can go in many directions as we can see from all the different perspectives we see in Christianity. So how are we, those who really want to know the truth to decide whose interpretations of Scriptures are correct? Well the only answer I have is to see how prophecies have been fulfilled. Do our past have fulfilled prophecies in them? Or are most of the Prophecies concerning the 'end time' still in our future? Well there are many events in the past 1900 years that are extremely close to what the prophecies in Daniel spell out.  I have just one perspective here for you to consider but spelled out in 2 different ways but the conclusions are much the same. I am not totally   on board here, but I must say that they have really roused my attention especially since I have a time or two came to the same conclusions but not with so much detail as these two people give. So I am listening to say the least and keeping this in my thoughts as a possible truth. What brought me here to study this is the Jewish Holocaust , I just can not believe that God does not address this in prophecy. This action against His people the Jews is so terrible that the description of the 'time of Jacobs trouble' or the 'terrible tribulation in those days' in my mind speak of the Holocaust and if it was in fact the same thing then we are much future in the Last days than I ever dreamed.


So it is with this in mind I give you the following things just to consider if you will.

A while back as I was reading Daniel I felt impressed that the Abomination of desolation had already happened and that it  was the Dome of the Rock. The only problem of proving this is no matter how how I tried I kept getting different dates for all of these matters sometimes a variation of 10 years. Now this is so different from what all the Rapture ready crowd are preaching! So of course I doubted what I had heard until again as I was studing the tribulation and the time of Jacobs trouble, in the Bible ,I believe that the Holy Spirit dropped into my mind that the time of Jacobs trouble has for the most part already happened which was all the time period leading up to and including the Jewish Holocaust and then Israel  becoming a nation as predicted in the bible! So I started looking up all the dates and I couldn't find any one in agreement over them! But what I later found out is that no matter what date is being used, it all works out either way it was being calculated, so here are 2 differing perspectives to 'the end times'  to the equation and thoughts on this, that for me at least blows my mind.From my own personal calculations and studing various other dates I conclude that from  the years 2012-2030 , I lean in the middle like around 2019, I believe Jesus could return, that is according to the dates and calculations given to us from  the Bible itself.

"Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand. From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days. But you should go your way until the end. You will rest and then at the end of the days you will arise to receive what you have been allotted" (Daniel 12:10-13).
From the time that the daily sacrifice (Heb. tamid) is removed and the abomination (Heb. sheequts) that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days (12:11,12).

Number 1 this is found here: http://www.bibletruth.cc/
According to this prophesy, there was to be 1290 days (or "years") from the removal of the daily sacrifice/tamid until the Abomination is set up. The daily sacrifice/tamid was removed in the year 607 B.C., which was the 3rd year of the reign of Yehoiakim, king of Yehudah. And the Dome of the Rock - that Abominable structure - was set up on the site of the miqdash (the temple or "set-apart place") in 684 C.E. Those two events are separated by exactly 1290 years!!!

 When you add 1290 years to the year 607 B.C., you come out to the year 684 C.E. It was exactly 1290 years after the removal of the tamid by Nebuchadnezzar in 607 BCE that the Abominable Dome of the Rock was setup in 684 CE  I believe that this is  the fulfillment of Daniel's prophesy in 12:11.

Now do we interpret that leftover 1335 days (years). Since the first part of the "days" prophesy was established to have been fulfilled in years, then the second "days" prophesy must be interpreted the same way. The question that begs us is, "Do the 1335 years run parallel with the 1290 years or do they begin after the 1290 years?" Well, the answer may be this. Did the resurrection of Daniel occur in the year 729 CE? (That would be 607BC + 1335 = 729CE)  Well no it did not. Nothing happened in that year. Jesus the Messiah didn't return in that year and no resurrection took place.
Therefore, the 1335 days (years) must begin in 684CE, which is the endpoint of the first half of the prophesy. They represent an additional 1335 years, after which the resurrection will happen. We are told "Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days."
It is simple arithmetic to begin counting from the date of the Abomination that desolates (684 C.E.) and add to that 1335 years. That brings us to the year 2019. In the year 2019, the second part of the prophesy, that which is stated in verse 12, will be fulfilled. This is the time when the Messiah will return and the resurrection is to take place.



     607 B.C. the removal of the tamid
+ 1290 years the “1290 days” of Daniel 12:11
  = 684 C.E. the construction of the Abomination – the Dome of the Rock
+ 1335 years the “1335 days” of Daniel 12:12
= 2019 C.E. the time of the return of Messiah and the resurrection of the dead


In 637 A.D. the City of Jerusalem was captured by the Saracens, led by Omar ibn al to Khatab. Between 684-691 A.D. the mosque, the Dome of the Rock, know in Arabic as Qubbat As-Sakhrah, was constructed on this site by Caliph Abd-al-Malik ibn Marwan.

With all these citations, it is rather well established that the Dome of the Rock began it's defiling of the set-apart place in the year 684 C.E., the year of the beginning of its construction. From that point in time and forward, the site of the ancient temple of YHWH has been off limits for anyone who worships the Creator. No one except moon god worshippers are allowed to enter the site of the Dome of the Rock. Certainly the Dome of the Rock has been a great desolating force against the worship of the true GOD.
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Number 2 This is found here: http://www.beholdthebeast.com/
Let's explore Daniel's 1290 "days" in prophecy,
5. (KJV) Daniel 12:11: And 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.


(Tanach) - Daniel 12:11 And from the time the daily sacrifice was removed and the silent abomination placed, is one thousand, two hundred, and ninety.

Sacrifices were suspended three times in the Old Testament: once before Daniel (Chronicles 28:24-25), once during the Babylonian captivity in 583 BC (Chronicles 36:19 and Ezra 3:6), and once, about four hundred years later, by the Greek king Antiochus Epiphanies. Let's try the 583 date considering that the angel Gabriel may have had Daniel write about the abolition of sacrifices with which he was directly familiar.


Old Testament - day = year "language" is suggested in Genesis' account of the flood as 30 day months pointing to a 360 day prophetic year, each year being equal to .9857 solar year (360/365.24) of or our modern historical record that the event dating comes from. 1290 x .9857 = 1271.5 solar years. Subtracting 583 we arrive again at 688.5 AD. The founding year of The Dome of the Rock - THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.


There is a 2-3 year leeway in Babylonian period historical dating, rendering "zero year" discussion unimportant. Might the Lord have allowed for the calculation to remain simple anyway?
Daniel and John's prophecies were written over 500 years apart, yet the two books unite with mathematical precision - both pinning the year 688 AD - that was hundreds of years in John's future and over a thousand years in Daniel's future!


From TFP: "When Khalifah Omar entered Jerusalem in 639AD, he was met by Sophronius, Bishop of the Jerusalem Church, who showed him around the city. Seeing the temple mount (then in rubble), Omar declared that he was going to build a memorial to Muhammad on the original site of the temple of God. Sophronius exclaimed in horror, "Verily, this is the Abomination of Desolation as spoken of by Daniel the prophet, and it now stands in the holy place". Though Sophronius was a very old man of about 80, Khalifah Omar put him in prison and to forced labor, the severities of which killed him." - Jerry Landay - "The Dome of the Rock"


Is there an explanation as to why we couldn't see the perfect mathematical relationships between these two prophets before this "time"?


Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.


Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Isaac Newton, Matthew Henry and many of those before us understood that the book of Daniel, and by extension Revelation, would not be fully understood until the "time of the end".
Let's try the very next verse after Daniel's 1290 days verse, and see if we can confirm the method we used, with Daniel's 1335 "days":


6. Daniel 12:12: Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.


Tanach: Dan 12:12:. Fortunate is he who waits and reaches days of one thousand, three hundred, and thirty-five.


1335 x .9857 (O.T. prophetic year "language" conversion) = 1315.9 - 583 BC = 732.9 AD.

A quick Yahoo search determines that 732 was the year of The Battle of Tours, France. This battle was fought exactly 100 years after Mohammed's death. The Battle of Tours is widely considered to be the most important battle of the entire Christian era. Charles "Martel" (the hammer), against astronomical odds, defeated the Islamic army, and the spread of Islam, in its near conquest of the whole known world, as it headed up through Europe during the Islamic First Jihad. Indeed blessed was he who patiently waited and made it through the First Jihad, without converting to Islam, or denying his Lord and Savior.

The Dome of the Rock was built in the temple "Court of the Gentiles" that the Lord instructed to "measure it not" because He gave it unto the Gentiles.


Revelation 11:2: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.

It was 42 prophetic months, employing the language of "each day for a year", from 688 to 1967 when the Israeli's regained control of Jerusalem from the Gentiles.  

Christians and Jews cannot deny that the Dome of the Rock is an "abomination" that was "set up" (beginning in 688+ or -) and "stands" "in" the "holy place". How is the Dome of the Rock standing where "it ought not"? All of Islamic history and worship is centered around Mecca, while the blasphemy of the Dome of the Rock stands on the temple mount, in Jerusalem the Holy City, that has little to no historical significance in Islam (in fact only through ancient politics), but is the center of historical significance for Christianity and Judaism. That abomination stands where it ought not, in the holy place. Indeed the holy place - the Temple Mount - God's footstool - is maintained in a state of desolation today with Muslim prohibition of prayer, and "holy objects" such as Bibles may not be brought in by visitors to the temple mount.

As has been shown, the "what" and "where" of Matthew and Mark, find the book of Daniel pins the 1290 days - when used as prophetic years in the language of prophecy - to 688 AD, the founding year of the Dome of the Rock. The 1335 days of the next verse peg the zenith of the Islamic First Jihad in 732 AD, at the Battle of Tours, which confirms the method. Daniel's 69 weeks peg the Cross to the year further confirming the method. Daniel's math is precise and cross-confirmed to the year of 688 AD by John in the book of Revelation. The "where" the abomination of desolation sits, where it "ought not", is the temple mount in the Holy City of Jerusalem. This is a place of little historical significance to Islam, but of conspicuous historical importance to Judaism and Christianity. Importantly, when, from 70 AD to 1967, or for the 2500 years prior to 1967, was Jerusalem not controlled by, or trodden by, gentiles?


Jerusalem was trodden down by the Gentiles from about 606 BC, until the Israelis retook the Holy City in 1967. But note that Jesus is talking about a Christian era gentile trodding in His future as evidenced by "shall be". 1967 marked the end of this great period of tribulation which began with the stoning of Stephen (since we are our brother John's companions in THE tribulation) and many others and slaughter of a million Jews in 70 AD, the 132 AD slaughter of another 750,000 Jews, the 152 year slaughter of Christians and Jews of the Islamic first Jihad, the Crusades, the Catholic Church persecution and murder of 4 to 20 million Christians, and the 8 million Jews, as well as many Christians, slain by the Nazis. Read Fox's Book of the Martyrs or Martyr's Mirror free online, for details.

When, in Jesus' future ("shall be") until 1967, was Jerusalem not controlled by - that is trodden by - gentiles?
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
The Lord did indeed use the Allied forces to shorten those days of Jewish persecution eventually ending their being led away captive, last, in Nazi Germany.
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days

The tribulation of those days began with the stoning of Stephen or perhaps in 70 AD, or with the first Jihad at Jerusalem in 639 AD, and go on up to 1948 - the beginning of the "time of the end", and immediately after the Allies shortened the days - while 1967 marked the fulfillment of the "times of the Gentiles" in Jerusalem. So does that put us now in the tribulation of these days - of the last era - of Daniel's "time of end"?
shall the sun be darkened.

Matthew 24 verses 1-14 include some history, and in verse 15 we found mathematical and textual precision in the Lord's symbol for end-time prophecy - the Dome of the Rock - with Islam front and center, taking Jerusalem in 639 during the Islamic first Jihad, and now in the "time of the end" with the second Jihad in the image of the first jihad, that we bear witness to on the nightly news.
Verses 1-14 describe the events of 70 AD and the historical realities we are witness to, and close in verse 14 with "and then shall the end come".

Verses 15-31 describe this "end" through events leading up to the Second Coming, and close with the coming of the Son of man and the gathering of the elect.

Verses 32-37 describe how we are to know it is the time of the end and close with the coming of the Son of man.

Verses 38-41 describe what the times will be like when this event takes place, and close with the coming of the Son of man and the gathering of the elect.

Verses 42-51 describe how we should prepare ourselves for this event, and close with the Second Coming and God's wrath on those left behind in verse 41.

OUR TRIALS IN LIFE

OUR TRIALS IN LIFE
The trials in our lives present many opportunities: In the Scriptures there are some things for us to consider,Here are just a few

1.To glorify God (Daniel 3:16-18, 24-25);

2.Discipline for known sin (Hebrews 12:5-11; James 4:17; Romans 14:23; 1 John 1:9);

3.To prevent us from falling into sin (1 Peter 4:1-2);

4.To keep us from pride. Paul was kept from pride by his "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7-10);4

5.To build faith (1 Peter 1:6-7);5

6.To cause growth (Romans 5:3-5);6

7.To teach obedience and discipline (Acts 9:15-16; Philippians 4:11-13);

8.To equip us to comfort others (2 Corinthians 1:3-4);

9.To prove the reality of Christ in us (2 Corinthians 4:7-11);

10.For testimony to the angels (Job 1:8; Ephesians 3:8-11; 1 Peter 1:12).

As we encounter serious trials, we need to remember is to maintain the divine viewpoint .As it is written,

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." 1 Cor 2:9

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18

In the Bible of Nature we can see that struggles, hardships, being buffeted by the wind and the elements all enable life to thrive. A chick within the egg must struggle to break free from what binds it, and so must chip away at it until it is free, but if we intervene and make it easier for the chick ,it will always die. It is by it's struggle to break free that it finds the strength to live in this world. Consider plants , when we grow plants in a green house with all the conditions perfect, then we place these plants out in the elements they will die, or will be rather weak and limp. Why? because it it by the constant movement of the wind that allows the stem on the plant to gain it's strength.That is why when growing plants in a green house they place fans all around to cause the plants to strengthen their muscles so to speak. A tree growing up in the earth is made strong by the struggle to remain rooted in the soil as it grows, if it is protected for much of it's young life, like many trees are within cities, it will never grow into the tree it was meant to be, but will at the first strong storm of life be knocked down. That is why trees out in nature are so much more stronger than city dwelling trees that are protected from much of the winds by many buildings.

Our trials and struggles are really for our good, it is what makes us mature into the adults that our Creator has intended us to be. So at the beginnings of any storm of life that comes your way, Thank the Creator for the opportunity to strengthen your muscles, stay rooted and grounded in the love of God and stand firm on His promises , and know that this is truly for our good, let us look on these struggles of life from God's perspective. We are not here to have fun, as many seem to think, although fun is a good thing, but it is not our purpose in life. Whether you are on a spiritual path or not, you are still here to grow into what God intends you to be. Life is for the purpose of creating and shaping in us the power of God in human form, and there is more to this life than meets the eye. There is a future purpose , a grander purpose ahead of us, and let us prepare ourselves by keeping that in mind .

JUST ME

A chickadee friend of mine.

Salvation,can I tell you exactly the time and place this happened to me? No. My salvation has been a long  on going process, not like most Christ Followers who can tell you the day and time. I can not. I can tell you that the process of my Salvation  started at around the age of 15, and then a lot of bouncy and rough roads later it is still ongoing. I can't say that all of a sudden when I called upon Yeshua that I felt His wonderful presence, and I heard the angels sing. No light from heaven , no lightning or thunder.No I have never had that kind of blessing. It has been a long process of just a 'knowing' that just keeps growing. It has been a yo-yo experience with me ,from believing and not believing,  from wanting to believe and not believing,from  forcing my self to believe and not believing, and yet this knowing, and that is the only way to describe it continues to grow. When I have either drifted away, or just left The Way because of fear or disappointment, the Holy (Momma of GOD)Spirit would always be there and re -enforcing that Knowing and so I would return yet again. I would have rather had a real big Divine encounter, which would have been alot easier for me to believe but God has not determined that approach with me!
Do I have a correct doctrine? Probably not. Do I go to church and affiliated with the 'right' denomination ?No. But I do study various bible studies, I read various devotionals, I visit alot of websites, and I read and study from various Translations of the Bible, all the while holding tight to the Holy Spirit learning to hear , following and obeying as I am able to hear and understand her.( I say her,the word for Holy Spirit is in the feminine, as well as Holy Wisdom,Hebrew the word Ruah (Spirit) and in Aramaic the word Shekinah (Presence) are feminine words and imply a feminine divine presence.My personal understanding is that GOD is both Father and Mother in essense,  so I have chosen to follow that lead).
So what is it that I exactly Know here? I just know that The Way of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah is really true, but everything else will just have to move along at God's speed for me to know, although I would rather have all my answers now , thank you very much, but that is not how God has chosen to work with me. So I am not one of those who think  they know all they need to know about what it means to be a follower of Christ. I definitely do not have all the answers, I go day by day, some days I have lots of doubts other days I feel pretty good about it all. Yes I wish I was great with words and could preach a fine sermon, I wish I could come up with just the right words to win you over, I wish I had the Bible smarts to show you all the right doctrines and the way to believe...Nope not me.I am just a simple woman, a simple country girl, living a simple life on the road with my trucker hubby who is now an agnostic but there is hope for him yet!
I can read the signs though, and the signs of the time are showing up more and more,that our age we live in now is getting shorter and shorter and  the heat is  being turned on more and moe. I have known from my first encounter with Jesus that I was living in the last days, how I know, I just do, I have felt that I would still be around, although I might be quite old, when Jesus returns for HIS own. I may not be able to explain all of this in terms of the right scriptures to point too, but I have enough understanding of Scriptures to at least point you to these the basic truths. I thank God that the Holy Mother Spirit is the one to open that understanding for  each us even more as we acknowledge God in our lives. It says in Scripture, 'lean not unto your own understanding (which I try not to everyday) but acknowledge God and he will direct your path". So as we do this, we can be sure to be led in the way we should go.
Do I have a big ministry with oodles of followers? Nope, just me and God. I believe we are all ministers of reconciliation, and ambassadors of the Kingdom , and I am thankful to be just that.
blessings and shalom

Yes! It is Spring Time all over!

I love Spring time! We just got home from off the road trucking. Every where we went this week was beautiful!
We started from home here in Missouri , then out to West, Kansas, to pick up a tanker load of raw milk off the huge dairy farm and we took it to Le Mars , Iowa. All over Kansas,Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota the grass was greening up, the leaves on the bushes and trees are coming out ,the spring flowers beginning to bloom and babies everywhere, baby horses , I just love them! and baby calves. I love seeing the fields full of new born  horses  and calves with their mothers. The best breed of cow I believe if I was to be a cow  would be the beef cows. They at least get to roam the country sides and bare their young and keep them at least till they are weaned, but you can't say that if it is a big dairy operation. But if they are lucky enough to be owned by small time ranchers then they are left with their younguns at least 6 months. Now Dairy cows and calves I feel so bad for , they are stripped from their mommas almost as soon as they drop.Dairy cows unlucky enough to be own by the big dairies have a hard and cruel life,they have a very short life span compared to small dairies that let their cows graze and it is sad to say that  these large dairy operations are where most of your milk and ice cream and dairy products come from. Don't let those adds on TV about the California cows fool you.Cows live for the most part on dry lots/pens and enclosed barns. Some are lucky to be able to get out of the hot sun and heavy rains and hail and snow. But many out in the S.W. are not that lucky , they may have some shade but many can not get out of the sun and   get hammered by hail . There are a few and I mean a few that are free ranged which I call Happy Cows , mainly up north and east, but even they are going to the big production dairies where the cows very very seldom get to graze on green grass. Out west the babies are taken from their mommas at about 1 to 3 days and tied up with about the length of 6 ft. rope or chain and housed in an individual small plastic shed and must drink from a bucket and not a bottle, most are out in the blazing sun and heat and those plastic sheds get real hot they can't even get to frolic and play with each other like cows and calves out in the fields get to. Cows on these dairies which can house up to 12,000 ,live out on dirt and cow poo. The stench is real bad, whereas those that are free ranged you never notice the smell in fact I bet there isn't any. No if I were to be a cow I would rather be a beef cow they for the most part always are left out on big pastures and breed with live bulls and have a cow social life but not their dairy sisters. And most diffinitely not steers after they are weaned they are housed on these huge feed lots  some over 80 acres full of them,where the dust and smell will get you . Out in West Tex and Kansas during the summer , the dust is so bad that you can barely see to drive and I have to cover my nose even with the window on our truck all up. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea about life as a dairy calf. Not to bum you out on this absolutely marvelous day, but to let you know that life is not good for many people and for our animal relations as well.
We need to be more humane with our animal kin, we need to treat them with respect and if we are responsible for the life of any animal , be it your pet dog that you may have tied up on a short chain way out in your back yard  or in a small pen as far as it can be from the house,which I say shame on you, why on earth do you even have a dog ? just to keep it tied up away from the family , again shame on you! Driving all over like I do , you would not believe how many poor dogs are in that condition. And the pitiful conditions of these live-stocks feeders I see all over, we need to respect life, and I believe that what you reap you will sow, how you treat the least of these in God's world, you best know that it will be repaid back to ya.
So let us be responsible pet owners and livestock owners, God cares for the critter kingdom just as much as He cares for each of us. Please let us be responsible and live kindly with each other and protectors of the weak,and those who don't have a voice in this world be they critters or people, we are all God's creation.
shalom