Daniel 8 & 9 Bible Study
Daily sacrifices in the Temple of God are the core of the Jewish faith. The Temple of God is the only place where the Jewish people are allowed to offer animal sacrifices to God. Every part of their lives revolves around the Temple. God commands that burnt offerings (animal sacrifices) must be a permanent statute for the Jewish people to perform in order to receive forgiveness of sins (iniquity). These sacrifices are required twice daily and a special sacrifice, called Yom Kippur is required once every year.
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For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.
Leviticus 17:11
This is a very important scripture. This scripture shows that it is not the prayers that atone for sin. It is the blood sacrifice that is absolutely essential to make atonement for sins.
Hebrews 9:22 – Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
In the case Christians, it is the blood of Jesus that makes atonement for our sins.
Romans 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Ephesians 1:7 – In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
God Requires Daily Sacrifices In The Temple Permanently
For Jewish people, sacrifices must be a regular part of everyday life. God clearly mandates this throughout the Old Testament.
1 Chronicles 16:40 – to offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:4 – Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13 – as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
2 Chronicles 13:11 – They offer to the Lord every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him.
Ezra 3:5 – and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the Lord.
God’s mandate of daily sacrifices (burnt offerings) was to be a permanent statute which is to be observed throughout the generations.
God has instructed that the sacrifices must take place in the Temple twice every single day, permanently.
Exodus 29:38-46 – Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
42 It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.
45 I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.
Numbers 28:1-10 – The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’ 3 And you shall say to them, this is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; 5 also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.
6 It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. 7 Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord. 8 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
The daily sacrifice is when the Jewish people as a nation must offer two lambs; one in the morning and one in the evening to cover their nations’ iniquity. Since sacrifices can only be performed within the Temple of God, the Islamic Dome of The Rock has prohibited it from taking place.
The Dome of the Rock is a building built by the Muslims in 685 A.D as a commemoration of Muhammed’s purported ascent to heaven from this location.
However, this is a sacrifice that God has commanded which must be done on a daily basis throughout the generations .
Exodus 29:42 – It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
Numbers 28:6 – This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.
Jesus Is The Final And Everlasting Sacrifice
God has commanded that these burnt offerings must be continued throughout the generations. So how could He have allowed the Temple to be destroyed and the Dome of The Rock mosque to be built in its place?
This is because God’s plan is for the Jewish people to accept the interpretation and teachings of Jesus so that the physical sacrifices are no longer necessary. His teachings uncover every unintentional, unknown sin. Jesus is the final and everlasting sacrifice.
Daniel 9:24 – “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Jesus is now this sacrifice which atones for our iniquity. The message that Jesus spoke was his sacrifice that caused his death. Jesus is the lamb of God – meaning that Jesus’ life was given so that we could receive this message of truth. It is this message that permanently washes away our iniquity, meaning the sin that we do not recognize within our understanding of the word of God.
John 1:29 – The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36 – and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
1 Peter 1:19 – but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Revelation 5:12 – saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
The Daily Sacrifices In The Temple Have Been Stopped
Now that the Dome of The Rock mosque has been built in place of the altar for temple sacrifices, the Jewish people can no longer atone for their iniquity (sin they do not recognize). The only way they can now receive forgiveness of these sins is through believing the teachings of Jesus.
This is all according to God’s plan as prophesied by the prophet Daniel in Daniel 8 & 9:
Daniel 8:9-27 – Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. 10 It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. 11 It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the Lord; it took away the daily sacrifice from the Lord, and his sanctuary was thrown down. 12 Because of rebellion, the Lord’s people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.
The daily sacrifices were taken away due to the Jewish people’s rebellion, meaning their rejection of Jesus, the Messiah’s teachings and interpretation.
The Temple of God was destroyed in 70 A.D. so, seventy years after the Jews rejected the teachings of Jesus. This is all a part of God’s plan of redemption for the Jews. He is trying to make them realize the truth, so that they will come out of their delusionment and accept the interpretation and teachings of Jesus.
Daily Sacrifices In The Temple Can Never Be Resumed
Daniel 8:9-27 explains the rise of the Islamic religion. Throughout its inception, Islam speaks of things that contradict the Bible through their Qur’an. It uses distorted biblical characters and stories to contradict the bible. This is what the scripture means by verse 10 “it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them”.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the Lord’s people?” 14 He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”
This prophecy is referring to the Dome of The Rock mosque which since its establishment, has stopped the daily sacrifices from being made by the Jewish people. This shrine has defiled the Holiest place for Jews.
The reconsecration of the sanctuary is accomplished through the sacrifice of Jesus. Paul explains this in:
Hebrews 8:1-13 – Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
8 For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord:I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Daily Sacrifices In The Temple Have Become Obsolete
The Jewish earthly Temple system and sacrificial offerings have been made obsolete. The Jewish people can no longer atone for their sins, unless they come to the teachings and message of Jesus.
Daniel 8 continued…
Daniel 8:15 – While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. 16 And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”
17 As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
Daniel is the only prophet we should be considering when attempting to figure out what the bible is stating in regards to the fate of the Temple in the end times. The scriptures that the Jewish people refer to in Jeremiah and Ezekiel are referring to the second Temple and have nothing to do with the end times.
Jesus only refers to Daniel the prophet when speaking of the future of the Temple.
Matthew 24:15 – “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mark 13:14 – But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Check out the bible studies on the prophecies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah (LINK coming soon)
Evil Has Risen And Prevented Daily Sacrifices In The Temple
Daniel 8:18 While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.
19 He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end. 20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia. 21 The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king. 22 The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.
Daniel 8:23 “In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue, will arise. 24 He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy those who are mighty, the holy people. 25 He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
These verses and the verses to follow, refer to Muhammed and the rise of Islam. As prophesied by Daniel, Muhammed was not killed by any human power. Instead, he died by natural causes.
Daniel 8:26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.” 27 I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
This is the false prophet and the beast which is written about by John in the book of Revelation.
Revelation 13:1-10 – And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear: 10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
The ‘dragon’ is Satan, the ‘beast coming out of the sea’ is Islam with its many muslim countries and denominations. The ‘beast coming out of the ground’ is the false prophet, who is Muhammed.
In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
It is here while the Jewish people and Daniel are exiled in Babylon, that Daniel receives revelations about Jeremiah’s prophecy. Daniel explains the return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land, the rebuilding of the second Temple, the coming of the Messiah and his subsequent death as well as the rise of Islam, which will establish the Dome of the Rock mosque.
Daniel 9:3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:
“Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. 6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:7 “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you. 8 We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you. 9 The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; 10 we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.
Daniel 9:11 All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you. 12 You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem. 13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth. 14 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him.
Daniel 9:15 “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. 16 Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.
Daniel 9:17 “Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary. 18 Give ear, our God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. 19 Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.” 20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill—
Daily Sacrifices In The Temple Are Essential For Atonement
Daniel is praying and asking God to forgive their sins (iniquity) by allowing them to return to Jerusalem so that they may rebuild the Temple and make the necessary sacrifices to atone for their iniquity. This does not mean that Daniel is asking for God to forgive their sin without the Temple. Daniel is asking God to begin the process of forgiveness by sending the exiles back to perform the sacrifice for forgiveness of sins in the Temple.
Daniel 9:21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
There is a direct connection between Daniel’s prayers and the evening daily sacrifices. If God had indeed accepted Daniel’s prayers as an evening sacrifice, then the exiles would not have had to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple.
Daniel 9:22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision: 24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Verse 24 refers to a spiritual time that we are not meant to understand, as times and epochs are not for us to know. Acts 1:7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Other translations say:
Daniel 9:24 – “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Daniel 9:24 Christian Standard Bible – Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city—to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
To atone for their iniquity, the angel Gabriel is revealing God’s plan for the short term which is for the Jewish people to return back to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple so that iniquity can be forgiven. Ultimately, God is saying that iniquity will be forgiven once and for all through the message of Jesus, who is the everlasting righteousness and puts an end to iniquity forever.
Romans 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Hebrews 2:17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
1 John 4:10 – In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 3:5 – You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
1 John 2:2 – He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
If we accept Jesus’ message and teachings without compromise, we are forgiven from all our iniquity.
Daniel 9:25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
There is a space of time between the rebuilt Temple and the coming of the Messiah. The second Temple was built during a time of trouble.
Nehemiah 4:13 & 17-18 – Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows…17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing…
The angel is revealing to Daniel that the Messiah shall appear after the rebuilding of the second Temple and before its destruction. We know by scripture that Jesus visited the second Temple numerous times throughout his life. Then Daniel states that the Anointed One will be put to death.
Luke 2:41-46 – Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. 43 And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 44 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, 45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
John 2:13-16 – The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.
Matthew 21:12 – And Jesus entered the temple[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
Mark 11:11 – Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
Luke 19:45 & 47-48 – And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
Mark 14:49 – Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”
Luke 21:37 – And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.
continued…Daniel 9: 26 The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
The ‘lawless one’ is Muhammed; the one who twists everything from the Bible including the laws and makes different ones. From the Islamic perspective, the Dome of the Rock mosque was built in 685-691 A.D. in commemoration of Muhammed’s purported ascent into heaven from that site. The verses above say the Muslims will come and set up the abomination leading to desolation which is the Dome of the Rock mosque. This is the only building located over this holy site that is preventing the Temple from being rebuilt.
Daniel 11:31 – Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
Daniel 12:11 – And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
Jesus also confirms Daniel’s prophecy in the following scriptures:
Matthew 24:15 – So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mark 13:14 – But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
And Paul mentions this in:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. 14 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
Muslims have been used to facilitate God’s objective which is for the Jewish people to turn to his son, Jesus for forgiveness of their sins. We must not hate the Muslim for planting this mosque, as it is all according to God’s plan. Just as the devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness, Job being tested and Peter being sifted as wheat were all God’s plan. We must love one another and not hate the Muslim.
Nevertheless, this does not mean that we must believe the Muslim’s state of events nor should we do as they do (meaning follow their ways). We also must not believe Muhammed’s claims of who Jesus is. Muhammed came approximately 700 years after Jesus’ death and resurrection. We must believe the men who literally walked, talked, witnessed and encountered Jesus’ life. It is foolish to believe the unfounded opinions of someone 700 years later that contradicts the testimonies of the people who actually knew Jesus. In spite of this, if they choose to hate or persecute us, we must not curse or revile in return. Instead, we must bless them with love, kindness and forgiveness.
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