Suddenly, very suddenly, things will get a lot worse, especially for those in Israel – it’s time to flee to the mountains!
Here in Mark 13:14-23, Jesus is sitting with four of His disciples and leaving with them a warning... that He knows will even get written down!
So which period in the future is Jesus referring to?
Does He mean the destruction of the temple immediately in front of them?
- Nothing as bad will have occurred before, ever since Creation – that includes the Great Flood. WOAH!
- Unless the Lord shortens these days no flesh would survive – humanly impossible until nuclear war became a reality in 1945
- Not only will the threats be military but also spiritual, with false christs and their miracles
So then,
what is the trigger?
The ‘Abomination of Desolation’ gets set up ‘where it ought not be’ i.e. ‘the holy place’. Every year since Syrian tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes IV
profaned the temple, the Jews have been celebrating its re-dedication in Hanukkah,
knowing the warning by Daniel: ‘the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and
the abomination that makes desolate set up’.
In other words, the temple MUST be rebuilt sometime after its destruction just predicted by Jesus Christ... AND it must be defiled again. Watch this space!
Just as
women and babies suffered terribly at the hand of Antiochus, so will they be at
risk from this future profanity.
Why?
Don’t stop
to ask – just R U N !!
