You and JLB seem to be in agreement on it, ezrider, I maintain that Jesus references the Abomination of Desolation in the Great Eschatological Discourse, that He refers to it in a way that it will be like what Daniel referred to/prophesied about -- when Antiochus IV Epiphanes slew a pig on the altar and other abominations -- that the Abomination in 70 AD was the Roman banners in the Temple and their desecration of it
No sense in Jesus tellin people to look for a PAST AoD - another one was comin'
Yes agreed. Antiochus IV Epiphanes slew a pig on the altar and his other abominations were in the past, not future to the Olivet Discourse.
Where did Daniel prophesy about a pig being slain on the altar?
The Olivet Discourse is about His coming and the end of the age, not the events of 70 AD.
Please point to the scripture in the Olivet discourse that begins with Jesus answering the question of the disciples as he was seated on the mount of Olives, as verse 3 describes, and verse 4 is when He began His discourse.
3 Now
as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what
will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 And
Jesus answered and said to them: ...“Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will
come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all
these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
The context of the opening statement references His coming and the end of the age.
- Take heed that no one deceives you.For many will come in My name saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many...
Jesus makes a reference to
"His coming" teaching them that just before His coming, many will claim to be Him and decive people.
- And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Jesus refers to events that will be leading up
to the end,
but the end is not yet.
In fact the language through the verses which show His coming is all about the signs that will take place just before His coming.
The AOD is the main one because it is the coming of the Lord that destroys the false Christ who perpetrates the AOD in the Temple, as he claims to be God.
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4
who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God...8 And then the lawless one will be revealed,
whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
The destruction of the false messiah [AKA antichrist: Christ = Messiah] is accomplished by the brightness of His coming, which obvoiusly means the false messiah will be alive when Jesus returns with His saints.
15 “Therefore when you see
the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. 23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here
is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe
it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out;
or ‘Look,
He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe
it. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.29
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will
gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:15-31
Jesus coming with His saints from heaven, just as Zechariah foretold.
And in that day
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee
through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Thus
the Lord my God will come,
And all the saints with You.
Zechariah 14:4-5
JLB