This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I'm Jeff.

Today is the second half of a two-parter where Matt is drawing to a conclusion the discussion of the phrase

The abomination that causes desolation from Matthew chapter 24. So here's some music and then we'll jump right in

Clearly there had been a profaning of the temple and something that sure sounds like an abomination

that causes desolation in the distant past under Nebuchinezer, repeated under

Bell Shazar, and surely what we read about in the inter-testimental books, second Maccabees,

and material like that and what we read about from extra-biblical material

about what happened under Entikas epiphanies and under the age of Greek rule?

I mean, come on!

If that's not an abomination of the temple, what is?

But then also, the Bible doesn't speak to Pompey's conquest of Jerusalem.

In the middle of the first century BC,

that brought Judea under control of the Romans,

but Pompey apparently waltzed right into the holy of holies as well. Is that an abomination that causes

desolation? I don't know. I kind of think so. I mean heck the temple and the

temple grounds are the place where so much have went into crucifying the son of God who lives in the temple

occurred. Is that an abomination that causes desolation?

For crying out loud, they killed Jesus.

You have to consider the possibility that maybe even that is in some way what's in view here.

But you also can't dismiss the reality that Jesus is talking about the physical destruction of the temple. We know exactly when that happened, 70 AD. And Luke and his twin volumes Luke and Act seems so very interested in the vindication of Jesus as being

wrongly convicted the law was incorrect in its judgment of him the government

was wrong the people were wrong that it's just hints so much more strongly toward the vindication that happens when people

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