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Posted: 2/11/2006 7:40:03 PM EDT
Europe is in a pre-WWII situation, except they wont have the Jews to blame this time.   Economic melt down and many more problems will give Germany another chance at power.  When they take charge the Catholic church will be with them hand-in-hand.  Just like what the people here in America want to prevent by taking down the 10 commandments, European Gov. will either be subtly or openly influenced by the Vatican.  Either way, it'll only be able to happen if occupying armies surround Jerusalem(Luke 21:20).  If muslims succeed in taking Jerusalem they'll set up their shrine enraging Christians.  If Christians take over with European power it'll set off in a different way.  Will Europe compete with the U.S. for oil (ie: euro's instead of dollar for oil) prompting them for middle east competition?  What do you think?  




For now, the various European governments will wring their hands and publicly say, “Gee whiz.”  What else can they do?  Liberal socialist policies that created the demographic dilemma currently tearing at the fabric of Europe has created an explosive situation.  The Europeans have no idea how to solve the crisis!  

The “holy men” will play their hand and exploit the weaknesses of their host countries for all it’s worth.  Yet even Europeans have a breaking point.  As more and more Muslim perpetrated crime, violence and utter disregard for the rights of indigenous Europeans becomes reality, look for the following:


1.      Continued immigration from Muslim countries into Europe, 100,000 per year in Germany alone.



2.      Higher and higher unemployment in all EU nations.  (Germany already 5.9 million unemployed).



3.      Islamic sponsored terrorist activity and vicious attacks in European cities.  (Already Denmark is a prime target, there will be others)



4.      Economic calamity brought about by high unemployment, low productivity and staggering social welfare costs associated with paying for Muslim welfare programs, combined with fear in the streets of European cities and towns.



5.      Collapsing European governments create POLITICAL VOIDS that will be filled by strong, NATIONALISTIC leaders not intimidated by the “holy men.”



6.      A soon coming, meteoric rise of a NATIONALIST political figure in Germany, coupled with a rise in German ethnocentrism, as Germans once again take pride in themselves.    



7.      The Pope suggests a halt in “non-Christian” immigration to European nations.



8.      An election year call for the massive deportation of ALL Middle Eastern peoples and dismantling of the Mosques, at the urging of the Catholic Church.



Drastic changes are coming soon to Europe.  The status quo cannot continue for much longer.  The hiatus caused by the current “cartoon wars” is nothing like what is soon to occur on the European continent.   Nuclear weapons already exist in the Muslim world.  Soon they will exist in the PERSIAN world.  No doubt plans are already in progress to punish Europe, when the right “insult to Islam” is perceived or concocted.  

Today's “cartoon wars” are only the precursor to much larger and calamitous events that will soon take place in this world!  Nothing can unite Muslims more effectively than an “insult” to Islam and their prophet.  Don’t think that would-be Caliphs, or “Mahdis” haven’t taken notice of this phenomenon.  

Keep your eyes on Europe, but at the same time always watch Jerusalem.  Pressure on Europe may well serve to ease the world’s anxiety over Israel, Jerusalem in particular, while plans are executed to push the Israelis into the sea once and for all.  The Islamics are focused on controlling Jerusalem and the re-occupation of ALL of Palestine.  

The Islamics are fanatical about Jerusalem.  They are dedicated to the destruction of every Jewish man, woman and child.  A united Muslim world, under the command of a Caliph could facilitate such a military and political reality in the never-ending lust to destroy the tiny nation of Israel.  Everything else is a sideshow.






Link Posted: 2/11/2006 9:30:24 PM EDT
[#1]
America needs American oil! We have it we just need to get it. Tree huggers be damned. You can drill and do it with min impact.

With that said and with the recent string of events, Western and European nations should halt Muslim immigration. The U.S. has enough problems with illegal immigration already.

We will see inaction by our leaders till it's to late. Just keep an eye on Europe we seem to be following them instead of leading like we used too.
Link Posted: 2/12/2006 10:09:25 AM EDT
[#2]

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America needs American oil! We have it we just need to get it. Tree huggers be damned. You can drill and do it with min impact.

With that said and with the recent string of events, Western and European nations should halt Muslim immigration. The U.S. has enough problems with illegal immigration already.

We will see inaction by our leaders till it's to late. Just keep an eye on Europe we seem to be following them instead of leading like we used too.



except Muslim immigrants to the US aren't causing any problems because we do push multiculturalism; the French get the shit they do from the Muslims because they are uniculturalists, "our way or the highway", and thus a lot of people are pressured into ghettos and other desperate situations.
Link Posted: 2/12/2006 12:32:02 PM EDT
[#3]
I suspect there's too much emphasis on the "abomination" part and not enough on the "desolation." Doesn't desolate simply imply NO LIFE. Daniel said there would be desolation in the temple, right? Whether you look at the temple meaning a building, or the "church" collectively or the temple in our mind ("know ye not that ye are the temple of God?") wouldn't it be an abomination if there were no life in the temple? When either the many membered church  or the individual church within us is devoid of life that's a sad, sad thing. If there's no feeding, no refreshing, no spirit, that is an abomination of the first order. It's certainly not what God intended.
Link Posted: 2/12/2006 5:41:37 PM EDT
[#4]
Complete fantasy read of the Church. The Catholic Church hasn't had direct or even much indirect political power in Europe since 1773 when the Jesuits were disbanded by force. The French Revolution wiped out most of the "wealth" and virtually all the real estate the various dioceses, bishops, noble families had everywhere. It wasn't for nothing that the mid-1800's saw the rise of anti-clerical regimes such as in France.... and in Italy (Papal states were destroyed in 1870)

While the Catholic Church survived as far as laity, even there much of the quality is gone; WW1 and WW2 and then the long cold war with 5th columns of Marxists and liberals of all stripes gutted the Church.... liberals who watered down seminary training, mixed heresy/new-age stuff in their prayer life led many dioceses into ruin by setting up the situation of homosexual or swinging clergy....

Only in rare countries (Poland) is the Church a serious cultural force. Virtually everywhere else it's as weak as any other institution.

Look at abortion. The Church is completely unable to stop abortion. Period. No where is it able to even hold the line. Not Ireland, Not even Poland. Certainly not Italy.

What might happen is that once the atheists totally contracept, abort, sterilize and euthanize themselves into oblivion, the "meek" will inherit a largely Muslim Europe right before the collapse. And naturally the Church will be blamed for the final collapse as it'll be the only institution left standing before the twilight of Sharia law is imposed.

There won't be another Crusade preached, there won't be any political upheavals of a Catholic sort - at least not in our life times.

Those stubbornly trying to shoe horn the Church into some Revelation's bad guy outfit need to get a grip. The Catholic Church isn't the one claiming that the Christ didn't come in the flesh - ahem - the sign St John gave of the doctrine of the anti-Christ "he who claims the Christ didn't come in the flesh" i.e. those who reject the Incarnation (Muslims, etc).

Every century has seen an apocalyptic catastrophe for the Church:

100: Nero's persecutions, Roman wars in Palestine
200: More persecutions, Gnosticism,
300: more persecutions, civil wars, Gnosticisms,
400: rise of heresies, civil wars, barbarian invasions
500: Arian heresy imposed by Imperial army then barbarian armies
600: Muslim invasions wiping out whole of Africa/ME churches
700: Muslim invasions of Spain, Viking invasions in north...
800: "Dark age" of Muslims to the south, Vikings to the north, barbarians to the east...
900: Heresies and more heresies, civil wars, etc.
1000: era of the first Crusade
1100: loss of Kingdom of Jerusalem etc.
1200: High Middle Ages, cathedrals being built, universities, rise in higher learning etc...
1300: Bubonic plague, mongols, the world is ending"
1400: With the A team of kings, priests, etc. wiped out in the plague the C squad take over and the result is a century of corruption, heresies, wars, etc. and Constantinople is lost.
1500: Massive division in Christendom and civil wars, rise of Muslim power again in the sea and on land.... Lutheran army SACKS Rome, Vatican.
1600: Continued religious conflict, wars, nation states grabbing Church lands, monasteries/convents seized etc. Muslims assault Europe through Balkans.
1700: Rise in atheism/masonry, Jesuits' supressed, virtually every kingdom etc becomes officially ANTI-Catholic, Pope seized by French forces, Vatican sacked. Pope dies in French captivity, cardinals scattered. French forces change days of week, months of year, Calendar changed from "Year of the Lord" to year of revolution....

There hasn't been a major country on earth run by a Catholic monarch or "regime" in oh, 200 years or so. Unless you count post-WW2 Spain (a bombed out shell).

But anti-Catholics persist in their fantasies that the Church is always just an inch away from turning the corner and seizing world control. If only!


 
Link Posted: 2/12/2006 7:17:34 PM EDT
[#5]

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But anti-Catholics persist in their fantasies that the Church is always just an inch away from turning the corner and seizing world control. If only!
 




I'd have to agree. I don't think there's a single word in the scriptures that is talking about the Catholic Church, at least not specifically. I believe some of Revelation could be applied to various failures of mainline organized religion but none of it is exclusive to Catholics. But that's just an opinion.
Link Posted: 2/13/2006 6:07:16 AM EDT
[#6]
Luke 21:20 was recognized as a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the early church.  See  Eusebius Ecclesiastical History  III.v.3 and Epiphanius Against HeresiesXXIX.7 As a result when the Roman army under Vespasian surrounded Jerusalem the Christians recognized what was going on.  When Vespasian had to return to Rome following the death of Nero, many Christians fled the city and went to the mountains.  Then when Titus, Vespasian's son, returned and laid seige to the city they were already gone.  

According to Josephus 1,100,000 Jews were slaughtered during the destruction of Jerusalem.  If you consider what a high percentage of the Jewish population that would have been at that time and the fact that their temple was also destroyed, then the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 was even worse than Hitler's holocaust.

Link Posted: 2/14/2006 8:43:54 PM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:
Europe is in a pre-WWII situation, except they wont have the Jews to blame this time.   Economic melt down and many more problems will give Germany another chance at power.  When they take charge the Catholic church will be with them hand-in-hand.  Just like what the people here in America want to prevent by taking down the 10 commandments, European Gov. will either be subtly or openly influenced by the Vatican.  Either way, it'll only be able to happen if occupying armies surround Jerusalem(Luke 21:20).  If muslims succeed in taking Jerusalem they'll set up their shrine enraging Christians.  If Christians take over with European power it'll set off in a different way.  Will Europe compete with the U.S. for oil (ie: euro's instead of dollar for oil) prompting them for middle east competition?  What do you think?  




For now, the various European governments will wring their hands and publicly say, “Gee whiz.”  What else can they do?  Liberal socialist policies that created the demographic dilemma currently tearing at the fabric of Europe has created an explosive situation.  The Europeans have no idea how to solve the crisis!  

The “holy men” will play their hand and exploit the weaknesses of their host countries for all it’s worth.  Yet even Europeans have a breaking point.  As more and more Muslim perpetrated crime, violence and utter disregard for the rights of indigenous Europeans becomes reality, look for the following:


1.      Continued immigration from Muslim countries into Europe, 100,000 per year in Germany alone.



2.      Higher and higher unemployment in all EU nations.  (Germany already 5.9 million unemployed).



3.      Islamic sponsored terrorist activity and vicious attacks in European cities.  (Already Denmark is a prime target, there will be others)



4.      Economic calamity brought about by high unemployment, low productivity and staggering social welfare costs associated with paying for Muslim welfare programs, combined with fear in the streets of European cities and towns.



5.      Collapsing European governments create POLITICAL VOIDS that will be filled by strong, NATIONALISTIC leaders not intimidated by the “holy men.”



6.      A soon coming, meteoric rise of a NATIONALIST political figure in Germany, coupled with a rise in German ethnocentrism, as Germans once again take pride in themselves.    



7.      The Pope suggests a halt in “non-Christian” immigration to European nations.



8.      An election year call for the massive deportation of ALL Middle Eastern peoples and dismantling of the Mosques, at the urging of the Catholic Church.



Drastic changes are coming soon to Europe.  The status quo cannot continue for much longer.  The hiatus caused by the current “cartoon wars” is nothing like what is soon to occur on the European continent.   Nuclear weapons already exist in the Muslim world.  Soon they will exist in the PERSIAN world.  No doubt plans are already in progress to punish Europe, when the right “insult to Islam” is perceived or concocted.  

Today's “cartoon wars” are only the precursor to much larger and calamitous events that will soon take place in this world!  Nothing can unite Muslims more effectively than an “insult” to Islam and their prophet.  Don’t think that would-be Caliphs, or “Mahdis” haven’t taken notice of this phenomenon.  

Keep your eyes on Europe, but at the same time always watch Jerusalem.  Pressure on Europe may well serve to ease the world’s anxiety over Israel, Jerusalem in particular, while plans are executed to push the Israelis into the sea once and for all.  The Islamics are focused on controlling Jerusalem and the re-occupation of ALL of Palestine.  

The Islamics are fanatical about Jerusalem.  They are dedicated to the destruction of every Jewish man, woman and child.  A united Muslim world, under the command of a Caliph could facilitate such a military and political reality in the never-ending lust to destroy the tiny nation of Israel.  Everything else is a sideshow.









1)  Gimme a break!

2)  You mean the Catholic Church that is trying to get the EU to simply acknowledge Europe's Christian heritage and the EU is snubbing their nose at?  You mean that Catholic Church somehow has the power to influence all of Europe's policy-making?  Yeah, right.

3)  Cite your source.

4)  Take your anti-Catholic drivel elsewhere.  There's enough of it here already.
Link Posted: 2/15/2006 2:16:11 AM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
You mean that Catholic Church somehow has the power to influence all of Europe's policy-making?  


It was that way in the past.  The pope had unlimited power even so much to excommunicate kings and make them bend to the churches will.  Think it wont happen again?
Link Posted: 2/15/2006 12:06:48 PM EDT
[#9]
"Abomination of Desolation?"

I've seen references to:

 - Economics
 - Churches
 - Religions
 - Elections
 - Cartoons (Cartoons?)


When Nietze wrote that "G-d is Dead" the relevance to society at that time is as clear a warning bell then as is now.  When we hold institutions of power (cartoons?) higher than our shared ethical traditions, then yes...those instututions will topple...so should not be our faith.




Link Posted: 2/15/2006 3:53:12 PM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
You mean that Catholic Church somehow has the power to influence all of Europe's policy-making?  


It was that way in the past.  The pope had unlimited power even so much to excommunicate kings and make them bend to the churches will.  Think it wont happen again?



No, it won't happen again, especially with the EU.   The governments (mainly the Western European ones) are going out of their way to snub their nose at the Church and at their own Christian heritage and history.  And you claim that this same Church which can't even get the EU to acknowledge that Europe's history had Christian foundations is somehow able to make Germany and other countries bend to her will?  Please...
Link Posted: 2/16/2006 8:01:57 PM EDT
[#11]
This subject is too far over my head to give any answer, but I copied what's on my church's web site for any who may wish to read it;

"What Is the "Abomination of Desolation"?

In His most detailed prophecy of the end time, Jesus said, "... When you see the ‘abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ..., then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains" (Matthew 24:15-16). What was He talking about?

The longest and most precise prophecy of the Bible, Daniel 11, recorded in advance what would occur in the empires and nations that would vie for control of the Holy Land for centuries to come. It describes, in astounding detail, rulers and other peoples who lived long after Daniel's prophecy and several centuries before Christ( as spelled out in chapter 3 of this booklet).

For much of the prophecy these kingdoms were Syria to the north, ruled by descendants of Seleucus, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, and Egypt to the south, ruled by descendants of another of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy.
An evil ruler arises

Eventually the prophecy describes a Seleucid ruler named Antiochus IV, also known as Antiochus Epiphanes. Daniel 11:21 states, "And in his [Seleucus IV's] place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty." Most Syrian officials, tired of the excesses of the Seleucid rulers, backed the usurper Heliodorus, who had poisoned the previous king.

"But," the prophecy explains of Antiochus, "he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue" (verse 21). By a show of what some historians have called "Roman manners" and a great deal of flattery, he enlisted the aid of neighboring King Eumenes II of Pergamum and officials at home in forcing out Heliodorus and obtaining the throne in 175 B.C. The next verse explains that all those who opposed Antiochus would be swept away and broken—and they were.

At this time Syria ruled over the Holy Land. Included in those "swept away" is one referred to as "the prince of the covenant" (verse 22). This is apparently a reference to a Hellenistic Jew who changed his name to the Greek form Jason, appointed by Antiochus as replacement high priest over the Jewish worship system. He was dropped from that position by Antiochus only three years later in favor of another Hellenizing (that is, Greek-culture-promoting) apostate named Menelaus.

As verses 23-24 show, elements of the Jewish leadership made a "league," a treaty or similar agreement, with Antiochus, and at first he entered "peaceably" into the Holy Land with only a small force.

What did this league, or covenant, entail? The apocryphal book of 1 Maccabees, although not Scripture, provides us with history of the period. "In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us ..." (1 Maccabees 1:11, KJV).

Continuing in a paraphrased version of the account: "‘... For our refusal to associate with them has brought us nothing but trouble.' This proposal appealed to many people, and some of them became so enthusiastic about it that they went to the king and received from him permission to follow Gentile customs. They built in Jerusalem a stadium like those in the Greek cities. They had surgery performed to hide their circumcision, abandoned the holy covenant, started associating with Gentiles, and did all sorts of other evil things" (verses 11-15, Today's English Version). Still, even the apostatizing factions did not wholly abandon the Jewish worship system—at least not yet.

In any event, Antiochus soon betrayed the Jewish leaders by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, yet only as a temporary ploy to gain support among the Jewish masses (Daniel 11:24).
Antiochus vents his fury

Then notice what was to happen in 168 B.C. after the king defeated Egypt: "While returning to his land with great riches, his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant; so he shall do damage and return to his own land" (verse 28).

As 1 Maccabees records, he set himself against the Jews, massacred many of them and plundered the temple at Jerusalem before returning to Syria (1 Maccabees 1:20-28).

Antiochus then embarked on a second venture into Egypt, unsuccessful this time because a Roman fleet forced him to give up his fight and return the island of Cyprus to Egypt (Daniel 11:30). "... Therefore he shall be grieved, and return in rage against the holy covenant, and do damage. So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant" (verse 30). Antiochus vented his fury on the Jews, yet he accorded special favor to those among them who rejected their religion.

As 1 Maccabees explains: "When the soldiers entered Jerusalem, their commander spoke to the people, offering them terms of peace and completely deceiving them. Then he suddenly launched a fierce attack on the city, dealing it a major blow and killing many of the people. He plundered the city, set it on fire, and tore down its buildings and walls. He and his army took the women and children as prisoners and seized the cattle. Then Antiochus and his forces built high walls and strong towers in the area north of the Temple, turning it into a fort ..." (1:29-33, TEV).
Antiochus rejects God's laws

Then came the worst. Daniel's prophecy warned of Antiochus: "And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation" (Daniel 11:31).

The book of 1 Maccabees gives us details: "Antiochus now issued a decree that all nations in his empire should abandon their own customs and become one people. All the Gentiles and even many of the Israelites submitted to this decree. They adopted the official pagan religion, offered sacrifices to idols, and no longer observed the Sabbath.

"The king also sent messengers with a decree to Jerusalem and all the towns of Judea, ordering the people to follow customs that were foreign to the country. He ordered them not to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or wine offerings in the Temple, and commanded them to treat Sabbaths and festivals as ordinary work days.

"They were even ordered to defile the Temple and the holy things in it. They were commanded to build pagan altars, temples, and shrines, and to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there. They were forbidden to circumcise their sons and were required to make themselves ... unclean in every way they could, so that they would forget the Law which the Lord had given through Moses and would disobey all its commands. The penalty for disobeying the king's decree was death.

"The king not only issued the same decree throughout his whole empire, but he also appointed officials to supervise the people and commanded each town in Judea to offer pagan sacrifices. Many of the Jews were ready to forsake the Law and to obey these officials. They defiled the land with their evil, and their conduct forced all true Israelites to hide wherever they could" (1 Maccabees 1:41-53, TEV).
The temple defiled

Then it happened: "On the fifteenth day of the month Kislev in the year 145" (verse 54, TEV), which corresponds to 168/167 B.C., "they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar" of the temple (verse 54, KJV). This appears to have been a pagan altar, probably with an image representing the Greek chief god Zeus, as 2 Maccabees 6:2 tells us that Antiochus defiled the Jewish temple "by dedicating it to the Olympian god Zeus" (TEV). After all, to the Greek mind the God of the Hebrews simply equated to the chief god in the Greeks' pantheon.

We are further told: "Pagan sacrifices were offered in front of houses and in the streets. Any books of the Law which were found were torn up and burned, and anyone who was caught with a copy of the sacred books or who obeyed the Law was put to death by order of the king. Month after month these wicked people used their power against the Israelites caught in the towns. On the twenty-fifth of the month, these same evil people offered sacrifices on the pagan altar erected on top of the altar in the Temple" (1 Maccabees 1:55-59, TEV). Indeed, pigs, declared unclean in God's law (Deuteronomy 14:8), were offered over His own altar.

The account in 1 Maccabees 1:60 continues: "Mothers who had allowed their babies to be circumcised were put to death in accordance with the king's decree. Their babies were hung around their necks, and their families and those who had circumcised them were put to death" (TEV). Yet, as horrible as this was, some still resisted. In fact, 1 Maccabees 1:62-63 reports: "But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food. They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die. Very great wrath came upon Israel" (New Revised Standard Version).

Yet many in the resistance lived. The account continues with the rise of the Hasmonean priestly family of Mattathias, including his son and successor Judas Maccabeus, who would not compromise with paganism. In the end, the efforts of these patriots and their followers were in large measure responsible for eventually pushing the Syrians out.
Later prophetic fulfillment

Now, with all of that as history, consider Christ's warning about the abomination of desolation. When He gave it, hadn't this part of Daniel's prophecy been fulfilled almost 200 years earlier, as we've seen? Certainly. So Daniel's prophecy, according to Jesus, must have a dual fulfillment.

Jesus revealed to us the time for this prophecy's ultimate fulfillment in Matthew 24 when He explained what would immediately follow it: "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. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved [alive]; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened" (verses 21-22).

This recalls another part of Daniel's prophecy, which says that in the end time "there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered ... And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake ..." (Daniel 12:1-2).

So this awful period of tribulation occurs at the end of this present age, just before Christ's return when He will resurrect His faithful followers (1 Thessalonians 4:15-16). Indeed, Daniel was told that "from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up," 1,290 days—a little more than 3 1⁄2 years—would elapse until, apparently, the resurrection of Daniel and the rest of the saints would occur (Daniel 12:11, 13).
Lessons from the first fulfillment

We can learn a great deal about this end-time prophecy from the original abomination of desolation Daniel foretold. Antiochus Epiphanes was a forerunner of the end-time king of the North, the world dictator the book of Revelation refers to as the "beast." No doubt this end-time ruler will employ the same deceitful and underhanded methods that marked the reign of Antiochus and many of his successors, such as Hitler.

Furthermore, it appears from what we've seen and other scriptural indications that the end-time ruler, to accomplish his ends, will feign overtures of peace to the Jews of the modern nation of Israel. This might help explain why the end-time "king of the South," evidently an Islamic leader, will act against the final Beast power (Daniel 11:40)

What other parallels do we see? Part of the "abomination" of Antiochus involved the cessation of the daily temple sacrifices (verse 31). Yet Daniel's prophecy makes it clear that sacrifices will again be ended in conjunction with the abomination of desolation to come (Daniel 12:9-13). For this prophecy to be fulfilled, it appears that sacrifices will again be instituted and an altar rebuilt before the return of Jesus the Messiah.

In another parallel, Antiochus defiled the ancient holy temple when he erected an idol of the pagan god Zeus and sacrificed swine there. The end-time abomination may also involve an idolatrous image at a new temple. What we know for certain is that within the "temple of God" there will be an actual person who claims to be God in the flesh.

The apostle Paul, in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, foretold this "son of perdition." Notice verses 3-4: "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day [of Christ's return] will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 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" .

Christ will destroy this religious figure at His second coming (verses 5-8), but not before many have been deceived with "power, signs, and lying wonders" (verses 9-12).

Also, just as the original abomination of desolation marked the beginning of a period of unparalleled horror and misery, so will the final one begin the time of the greatest horror ever, the coming Great Tribulation.

We can be thankful that God promises to send His Son back to earth to save mankind from self-annihilation in this coming horrible time of mass deceit and destruction. We can also thank God for the wonderful example of those who stood fast—who would not compromise with God's way—and the awesome hope of the return of Christ, of resurrection to eternal life and of the establishment of His glorious Kingdom on earth.

Indeed, as world events march ever closer to the fulfillment of these prophecies, let us draw closer to God in faith, trusting Him to see us through even the worst of times, knowing that we aren't left without foreknowledge to help us better understand end-time events."
Link Posted: 2/18/2006 5:14:19 PM EDT
[#12]

Quoted:
It was that way in the past.  The pope had unlimited power even so much to excommunicate kings and make them bend to the churches will.  Think it wont happen again?



What world are you living in??? Is there even a Catholic prime-minister, president or king in ANY major world power? Governments go out of their way to seperate themselves from the Church.. how in the heck would they bend to the Church's will? I don't mean to sound rude but jeez

thanks,
Ron

ETA: The only reason that the Church has ANY influence (if any) is because it is the oldest Chrisitian church in the world with it's own State. Liberal governments have pushing Chrisitianity further and further way.
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