Hey there, this is Jeff, and you're listening to the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast.

We've been going through Matthew Chapter 24, and Matt had a lot to say about the phrase

the abomination that causes desolation, a phrase that Jesus uses in Matthew 24, and he sent me a file that's really two episodes

worth of content so that's what we're gonna do with it today is part one tomorrow

will be part two. Enjoy. So here's where we're at.

We're trying to figure out what this apparent editorial aside in Matthew Chapter 24 that says let the reader understand

means what are we supposed to understand no wait come back I still need to know it I don't

understand it I need to understand what am I supposed to get what we've established so far is that this phrase that Jesus uses, and keep an eye out for this,

so when you see this happening, the abomination that causes desolation, that is definitely

a reference to the Prophet Daniel.

How do we know?

Because Jesus says, spoken of through the Prophet Daniel.

So what did you and I go do?

We looked at all of the places where the theme of profaning the temple comes up in the book of Daniel. That included

Daniel looking backwards into history from his time at Nebuchanezer's

profaning of the temple, looking at his own lifetime when Nebuchanezer's kid

Belchizar continued in profaning the temple and looking forward in

Daniel Chapter 9 toward some future profaning that is described as an abomination that causes

desolation that a lot of people would have said is fulfilled in the rule of Antiochus epiphanies and the Greeks and all the ways that they profane the temple recorded in 2nd Maccabees chapter 6. But Jesus indicates that you should be keeping an eye out for

this abomination that causes desolation as though it was still to happen. So in the interest of

letting the reader understand, let's consider the possibilities of what Jesus might have meant by this

possibility number one is that he is acknowledging that there's going to be a repetition somewhere in the future

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