If so it does say that the second coming would follow such a time.
Abomination of Desolation - could this have been the holocaust?
by Qcmbr 6 Replies latest watchtower bible
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avishai
Please.....
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Qcmbr
Is that just a 'shut up you twit sort of comment?' You may elaborate on what the abomination of desolation is if you wish..
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Qcmbr
..actually it seems to me that there are two abominations of desolation - one in 70 AD at Jerusalem and one once again at Jerusalem just before the second coming. Ignore my question:) night night
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Mulan
What about all the other tragedies all over the world that have been happening for centuries. This just happens to be on our home turf, so it hurts us more. There are people far worse off in Sudan and Rwanda, for example. Not to mention Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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Hellrider
Don`t know, don`t care. But Qcmbr, is that you in the picture, as a kid? Or is it your child? That kid is just adorable! Around 12 months, or something like that? It`s a great age.
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JCanon
Qcmbr
You are right on the money!!! The "disgusting thing that causes desolation" is Gog of Magog who desolates Israel just before the Messiah arrives. Since the Nazis desolated the Jews during the Holocaust, they fulfill the abdomination causing desolation!
Gog of Magog relates the the racist policies adopted by the children of Magog who was the son of Japath, Noah's eldest son and the father of the "white" nations, thus the Germans. These would desolate modern-day Judah only leaving one-third to survive and return to Zion (Zech 13:8).
That white racism would continue to be a problem is noted that Satan inspires Gog of Magog to rebel against Christ and the anointed at the end of the millennium.
The "disgusting thing" also relates to the connection with the pagain mysteries. The Nazis weer known to be into the occult and practices linking them to ancient cultic practices. A central theme of the "mysteries" was to suffer through several degrees in an attempt to go from being human to becoming a "god" and often that is translated into the racist concept of the purity of being white skinned as opposed to dark-skinned. What is elevated among men though is a disgusting thing to God, so this abomination causes desolation of Judah at the time of the Holocaust.
The specific "sign" to look for, therefore, was when the Nazi's surrounded atypical Jerusalem, the "holy place" which was the transplanted people of Judah and their largest concentrated settlement in Warsaw, Poland. When the Nazis in 1939 surrounded Warsaw, literally, that was the sign when the bombardment was over to flee to the mountains. If you didn't then the Jews were sealed off into ghettos and eventually liquidated.
This also has to occur during the prescribed chronology time period of 7 years from 1940 to 1947, a time period "cut short or no flesh would be saved." That is the entire nation of Jews would have been destroyed if WWII was not cut short, the severe winter in Russia helping to slow the Nazis down. As it was, though, they did effectively fulfill Biblel prophecy and exterminate two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe which served as atypical "Judah" in this prophecy.
The "holy place" is also a reference to Jehovah's witnesses, thus the focus of the Nazis in persecuting the witnesses was also a sign.
When this "great tribulation" ended as Daniel 12 notes, and the Jews are no longer in exile, it ends 1290 days. The Messiah was to arrive 45 years later.
Nazi Germany is also the "head that received the death stroke" of the 666 Beast representing the nations of Christendom. This head received the death stroke when conquered in 1945 but then it revived to become the strongest European economy again to fulfill prophecy.
JC