![]() ![]() The flight would be so perilous that winter travel would be dificult and pregnant women would find it hard to keep up (Mark 13:14–20). If they were on the roof of their home, they were not to enter the home before eeing rather, they were to scurry down the outdoor staircases (most houses in Judea had flat roofs that people accessed via an outdoor staircase) and flee. ![]() They were not to return from the field for their possessions if they were out working the crops. Christ told the disciples that when they saw the abomination, they were to flee the city. It seems incontrovertible that Titus' actions were the specific fulfillment of Jesus' warning in Mark 13:14 about the "abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be." After all, the parallel verse in Matthew 24:15 says that the abomination would stand in "the holy place," a clear reference to the temple. ![]() In that year, the Roman general Titus invaded Jerusalem to crush a Jewish revolt, entered the temple, had the building destroyed, and carried off the lampstand and other temple artifacts to Rome. The year 186 BC was far too early to fit the prophecy-but the year AD 70 was not. This makes it impossible that Daniel's prophecy refers to Antiochus Epiphanes. Many ancient Jews viewed the actions of Antiochus Epiphanes as the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27, which says, "On the wing of abomina tions shall come one who makes desolate." However, the time frame in verses 24–27 begins with the decree of Cyrus that sent the Jews back to their land after the exile (Ezra 1). Under the leadership of the Maccabees, the Jews drove Antiochus and his army out, and the Jews gained control of their land for about one hundred years until Pompey, an acclaimed Roman general, captured the Holy Land and brought it under Roman rule. This provoked a revolt in Judea as the Jews fought to remove Antiochus' sacrilege from the temple. He marched into the Jewish temple, erected a statue of the Greek god Zeus, and sacrificed a pig on the altar of incense. In 168 BC, the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes invaded Jerusalem and captured the city. ![]()
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