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    THE BOOK OF DANIEL

    THE DAILY

    AND THE

    ABOMINATIONThe Daily

    To Take Away the DailyWhen was the Daily Taken?

    Is the Horn "He" or "It"?

    What is the Abomination which was set up in place of the Daily?

    Twice, in two different visions in the book of

    Daniel the question is asked, "HOW LONG"

    (Daniel 12:6 and Daniel 8:13)? The questions

    are answered with numbers: 2300 days,

    1260/1290/1335 days. Also, THE DAILY, is

    spoken of as being taken away and the

    ABOMINATION THAT BRINGS

    DESOLATION being set up in its place.

    As we study what this DAILY is, and what THE

    ABOMINATION is, we realize what has

    happened in Christianity and why there must be

    a judgment.

    "The Time of the End" refers to that time, just

    before the second coming of Christ, when

    heavenly judgment court is seated, (Dan. 7:10)

    and in which the true citizens of the kingdom

    are confirmed and the false are weeded out.

    In Revelation, "The first angel's message proclaims "the hour of His

    judgment is come.... This message could be proclaimed ONLY IN THE

    LAST DAYS, for only then would it be true that the hour of judgment had

    come."

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    "The prophecies of Daniel present a succession of events leading down to

    the opening of the judgment which is to take place in the time of the end.

    Scripture presents a grand linking together and conformation of the prophetic

    timelines. They all support one another and link the various passages together

    to increase our understanding of the prophecies.

    Scholars tend to accuse us of establishing the 1844 movement which

    proclaimed the judgment and Christ's soon coming, on one single text (Dan.

    8:14). However, all those time lines point to the investigative judgment. The

    universe has waited six thousand years for the final issue between truth and

    error to be revealed. With great interest they attend that great judgment scene

    seen in Daniel 7:9-10, which according to Daniel 8, deals with the "daily" and

    the "abomination".

    Now lets look at the verses containing the words daily and abomination.Notice as well, that the word "sacrifice" is NOT supposed to be there. It was

    added by translators.

    Daniel 8.11-13 Yea, he

    magnified himself even tothe prince of the host, and

    by him the daily sacrificewas taken away, and the

    place [base] of hissanctuary was cast down.

    And an army was given

    him to oppose the dailysacrifice by reason of

    transgression, and it cast

    down the truth to theground; and it practiced,

    and prospered.

    Then I heard a holy one

    speaking; and another holyone said to that one

    speaking, "Till when the

    vision, the daily, thetrangression ofdesolation,

    and giving both the

    sanctuary and the host to betrampled underfoot.

    Daniel 11.31 And arms

    [military forces] shall standon his part, and they shall

    pollute the sanctuary of

    strength, and shall take

    away the dailysacrifice,and they shall place

    [assign, consecrate], the

    abomination that makes

    desolate.

    Daniel 12.11 And from the

    time that the daily sacrifice

    shall be taken away, and

    the abomination that

    maketh desolate set up

    [consecrated, put in place],there shall be a thousand

    two hundred and ninety

    days.

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    The Daily -- the hattamid.

    The word "tamid"is quite common in the Bible, it means continuous or

    continually everyday without ceasing.

    A study of this word reveals that it was used in the connection of manyactivities priests performed in their daily work in the sanctuary. It is usually

    used as an adjective before various continuous activities in this daily priestly

    work or as an adverb following activities. For instance the continuous burnt

    offerings, the continuous "Presence of bread" (Ex. 25:30, Num 4:7) the

    continual burning lampstands (Ex. 27:20; Lev. 24:2) and incense (Ex. 30:8)

    and the fire on the altar (Lev. 6:13).

    The word is also used in Jewish manuscripts to describe Gods continual Law,

    and continual praise.

    The heads of the priests are to minister continually tamidbefore God and the

    heads of the Levites are also to minister continually tamid. Others shallattend daily tamidat the gates of the sanctuary. Those who serve shall satisfy

    themselves perpetually tamidbefore Him. Although we are in a sanctuarycontext, tamidis not used as a noun or as a technical term for the daily

    sacrifice. It carries the meaning of continually or perpetually. (Hasel, A Study ofDaniel 8:9-14, looking at the Qumran and Old Testament Usage of the Hebrew Word TAMID

    All of Daniel 8, where we see the first reference to this "taking away of the

    daily", is filled with sanctuary language. The Ram and the Goat (sacrificial

    animals) represent nations in control while the daily was operating in theearthly sanctuary. Then we have no more sacrificial animals (signifying thatthe sacrificial system has come to an end) but now we see A HORN

    magnifying itself to heaven, (where Christ has entered the heavenly sanctuaryas our High Priest) yet this horn is seen lifting off the daily from HIM, and

    casting the PLACE of the sanctuary down and truth is trampled to the ground,

    but finally we hear that the heavenly sanctuary will be cleansed!

    In other words "tamid"or"daily/continual"in the types, referred to thecontinual work of the priests in the court and in the holy place of the sanctuary.

    It does not refer to the priests work in the Most Holy Place.

    What work by Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, did an earthly priesthood

    supplant?

    It was Christ's work in the heavenly sanctuary in which He was engaged until

    1844-- before the "cleansing of the sanctuary began", which we know from our

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    study of the earthly type, was THE DAILY. The word 'Sacrifice" is not once

    mentioned because the "blood" with which Christ ministers was shed ONCE

    AND FOR ALL at the cross. There is no more need for sacrifice, for that one

    sacrifice was all-sufficient.

    Please note that the word "sacrifice" in all these verses was supplied by thetranslators. It is not in the original writings. Also, Daniel does not use the word

    "tamid" like an adjective, he places the definite article (the) in front "hattamid"

    so it stands as a noun. NOR DOES DANIEL EVER use the word sacrifice in

    any of the above verses. It is THE DAILY that is set aside.

    TAKE AWAY THE DAILY

    There has been some debate on the term "take away"the daily in Daniel 8:11,

    as the term used is in the original is "ruwm"which can have various meaningsincluding "exalt" and "extol".

    However, the "ruwm"used in this verse is the "hophal" form which means "to

    be taken off, or lifted off".

    The little horn attempted to lift off the daily from Christ and place it upon its

    self.

    Any question as to the meaning of "take away the daily" should be cleared up

    quickly when we realize that the "taking away" of the daily in both (Daniel

    11:31 and 12:11) uses the word "cuwr"which means "to cause to turn aside,cause to depart, remove, take away, put away, depose, reject".

    So there really is no doubt that this power, in trying to take off from Christ, the

    Prince of Princes (8:11,25) HIS daily and place it upon themselves were

    rejecting the true ministry and pushing it aside.

    WHEN WAS THE DAILY TAKEN?

    In 508 A.D

    The taking away of the daily marks the beginning of the 1290 days of Daniel12. .

    This taking away and putting aside of Christ's daily ministry, is done with an

    "army". That is, this power uses an army to force people to look to itself for

    "priestly absolutions" from "transgression".

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    Dan. 8:10

    And an army was given him to oppose the daily by reason of

    transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced,

    and prospered.

    Daniel 11:31And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary

    of strength, and shall take away the daily, and they shall set up the

    abomination that maketh desolate.

    This takes place before verses 32-35 in Daniel 11, where the saints are

    persecuted, giving us a clue that the 1290 day/years begin before the 1260

    day/years.

    The lifting off of the daily, clears the way for the "abomination that causes

    desolation" to be set up.

    The two events are not the same, one prepares the way for the second. Whentaken literally the text says, the daily is abolished "with the purpose" of

    establishing in its place the "abomination that causes desolation".(Dan.

    12:11; 11:31)

    Was there a time before the beginning of the 1260 years

    when the papacy came into possession of an army which it

    used to set up it's authority over spiritual matters?

    Indeed there was!

    With the conversion of Clovis, King of the Franks, came am

    army, and Catholic history turns this cruel and unscrupulous

    king into the "eldest son" of the church in 508 A.D. and

    makes him appear as God's chosen instrument for the

    extension of the Catholic faith.

    Many historians declare that this was the "death" knell to paganism and the

    triumph of the Christianity. It was even taught that the "daily" was "paganism".

    BUT no, paganism was not "taken away" it was actually "Christianized" while

    true Christianity received a deadly blow.

    Who were the nations that Clovis fought against, with the sanction of the

    church?

    Burgundies, the Visigoths,

    and later his successor drove out the Lombards from Italy.

    Yes, I used to think these were all pagans being defeated-- but to my

    amazement I found out they were largely CHRISTIANS-- not particularly

    accepting all of Rome's doctrines and authority, and thus branded as Arians.

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    (it seemed like the in thing to do back then, to label all those in conflict with

    Catholic doctrines as Arians whether or not they actually were).

    In general, the term "Arian" was applied to Christians who did not

    accept the Catholic creed established by the Council of Constantinople

    in A.D. 381. Until Clovis' conversion from paganism to Catholicism in496, none of the Germanic kingdoms had accepted that creed. The form

    of Christianity held by those kingdoms can be traced back to themissionary endeavors of Ulfilas, a fourth century Gothic leader who

    translated the Bible into the language of his people, and whose influencehad won the Goths to Christianity in an astonishingly short time, not by

    the forces of Rome, but with the Bible.

    We tend to think of "Arians" as followers of Arius, who taught that

    Christ was the first and highest of God's creatures, created out of

    nothing. The views of Arius were rejected by the Council of Nicea inA.D. 325.

    " The prevailing position at Nicea, taught that Jesus was begotten of the

    Father's substance, from eternity, there never being a time when Christwas not.

    During the half-century following the Council of Nicea, the theological

    politics experienced a gradual shift, till we have the Creed ofConstantinople in 381, which declared the Father, the Son, and the Holy

    Spirit to be three separate, identical beings, "truly distinct one from

    another" (Handbook for Today's Catholic), yet forming a singleGodhead in which the Father, the Son and the holy Spirit shared their

    power, substance and dignity, each deserving the same honour and a co-eternal sovereignty, in three most perfect hypostases.

    Those who held that the Son, being begotten of the Father, is of the samesubstance with the Father, as had been declared at Nicea, but didn't go

    along with the more elaborate definitions of the trinity, were now

    labeled as "Arians."

    The Goths and other Germanic Christians of the fifth century belongedto this class.

    Now the Arian label, in its broadest sense, is what we hear about in history

    books as the reason the papacy wanted these Christian tribes vanquished. In

    this way, the papacy tries to paint itself as the preserver of true doctrine.

    Yet, there were many other issues involved! The church of Rome was forcing

    pagan idolatry, and alien forms of "holiness" upon the people. All manner of

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    unsound doctrines, saint worship, superstitious rites, idolatrous ceremonies,

    Sunday keeping, as well as an enforced FAST on Saturdays, were incorporated.

    There were many protesters among Christians, against the acceptance of

    these pagan practices into the Catholic Church.

    One example is Leo Vigilantius , 364-408, a Christian priest of Gaul who wasviolently opposed by the church, because he was an influential leader, by some

    accounted as the first director of the Church of the Waldenses, and this

    Vigilantius denied the efficacy of relics, prayers to the saints, almsgiving,

    celibacy of the clergy, ascetic austerities, and monasticism.

    Christians were protesting against these counterfeit routes to "holiness", they

    were protesting against the pagan ceremonies that were being brought into the

    church, they were refusing to see the Pope of Rome as the authority. In spite

    of thundering threats from leaders in Rome, there were people in the regions of

    Europe who were determined to follow the Bible only. They were growing instrength and were coming closer together.

    But the most dramatic "lifting off" of Christ's daily, or CONTINUAL

    ministry, by the Roman Bishop is seen in the claim that Christ founded His

    church upon Peter, and gave Peter the Keys of eternal destiny, and the

    Bishop of Rome was now the successor performing the CONTINUAL

    ministry of Peter! And further more that Peter's authority is subordinated

    to no earthly superior and is governor and head of Christ's kingdom with

    power to impose laws and judge offences, and pardon sins. This concept

    was being promoted in the years just prior to 508!

    The correlation between Peter and the Bishop of Rome did not become

    explicit until the pontification of Leo I (Leo the Great) in the mid-fifth

    century (440-61) Leo insisted that Petercontinued to speak to the whole

    Church through the Bishop of Rome...Not until the pontification of Leo

    was the claim of universal papal jurisdiction over the whole Church first

    articulated...(Lives of the Popes, McBrien, p. 18,26)

    Did Peter understand Christ's words to mean that he, Peter, was the rock upon

    which the Christian church stood? No, in 1 Peter 2:6-8 Peter declares that

    Christ is the chief corner stone. It is upon Christ the church is built!

    It is by usurpation that the Roman pope assumes the power that he claims.

    Christ has never bestowed this power upon him or any other individual.

    Most interesting is the Catholic Concept of"CONTINUAL"TAMID meanscontinual

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    "The Bishops of Rome do CONTINUE Peter's ministry of evangelizing

    the world and of maintaining the unity of the whole Church. They also

    CONTINUE to exercise within the college of bishops the same kind of

    pastoral authority Peter exercised within the original company of the

    Twelve. The word 'CONTINUE' is important. The popes do not

    succeed Peter in the sense of replacing him....the popes carry on Peter's

    ministry, (Ibid: 32)

    Even the word "CONTINUAL" "TAMID" is the same--

    But that "CONTINUAL" was not given to Peter, it is CHRIST'S, our High

    priest, and it has been usurped by Roman horn.

    These are issues we

    dont find mentioned in

    the history books, but

    they were the reasons

    many of these Christian

    tribes COULD NOT

    reverence Rome, nor

    look to the Bishop of

    Rome as their spiritual

    leader! And Rome

    would have her

    revenge.

    These were issues upon

    which these people disagreed with Rome, and which brought them into

    disfavour with the rising Roman religious power.

    In 508 AD she received an army and started purging out the Christian nations

    of Europe and planting her own paganized religious banners in their place.

    Clovis "desire" seemed to be to ruin Christian kingdoms which refused the

    Catholic version and bring all to regard the Roman Bishop as the authority.

    Yes, 508 A.D. marks the time when the Roman Catholic church received arms

    to force other Christians to look to Rome for salvation.

    Is the Horn "He" or "It"?

    A curious pronoun shift occurs in our reading of the horn in our English Bible

    translations.

    Sometimes the horn is referred to as he and sometimes as it.

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    This translation is based on Daniel actually switching the gender of the horn

    power!

    (Daniel 8:9-11)

    Out of one of them [directions] came a horn that started from smallness

    and grew.It grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and

    of the stars to the ground and trampled them.

    He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the

    daily was removed, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.

    And a host [army] is given over to it, with the daily, through

    transgression, and it throweth down truth to the earth, and it hath

    worked, and prospered.

    Why did Daniel do this?Now let's see what happens when one represents the pagan aspect of Rome.

    The other represents the papal aspect Rome.

    There came forth a horn that started from smallness.. and grew(That would

    be Pagan Roman as Rome began in its pagan phase)

    (Daniel 8:10) calls the horn IT.

    This "it" would thus be pagan--

    IT casts down some of the (the host of heaven)

    hosts are usually armies, so how did pagan Rome cast down some of the

    heavenly armies?

    The "host" or the "army of heaven" being attacked by the IT seem to represent

    God's army of people going forth with the gospel message.

    Indeed the first centuries of Christianity are known for their periods of bloody

    persecution by Pagan Imperial Roman!

    BUT MORE-- IT, that is the pagan/greek/roman way of thinking ALREADY

    began to infiltrate the doctrines and thinking of Christianity.

    The "it also casts down Stars and stamps on them

    Leaders like Peter, Paul, etc. martyred.

    Now the switch in the pronoun used for the horn:

    (Daniel 8:11)

    HE magnified himself

    If the pronoun switch which we see in our translations, identifies a new identity

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    then"HE" must be papal!

    He magnifies himself against the Prince of the host.

    Against (Christ) Himself! Later we are told he rises against the Prince of

    princes. The papal power rises against Christ.He lifts off the daily from HIM(mimmennu) not from the pagan IT, not from

    itself, but from the Prince of the host.

    This is something the papal horn does against Christ.

    And He pulled down (not the sanctuary itself) but the PLACE of the sanctuary.

    The HE was the new face in the horn (papal ROME) which moves himself

    "into the holy place" of Christ's daily ministry-- He lifts off the daily ministry

    the "TAMID" from Christ and receives his own army by which to force people

    to look to him as the one to dispense the "TAMID" blessings.

    Daniel 8:12An army or host is given over to it,

    And IT

    now we are back to the pagan IT

    This seems to indicate that HE is now pagan --"IT"-- the same pagan/false

    religion, supported by slightly converted pagans?

    with the daily, through transgression

    But now it has seated itself in the very temple of God, and is pretending to be

    God. (see 2 Thess. 2) Pretending to have the power to forgive sins and openand shut the door of heaven to whomever they pleased.

    And IT cast truth to the ground.

    And IT prospered, while true Christianity was forced to hide in the wilderness.

    The Abomination Set Up in Place of the Daily

    The "taking away of the daily" and the setting up of the "abomination" are not

    the same thing. By lifting off Christs work and attributing that work to itself,

    this power in actuality rejected the TRUE MINISTRY of Christ and pushed it

    aside. By attributing the "daily" or "continual" to itself, this power prepared the

    way for the abomination to be set up in the Christian church.

    The two events are not the same, one prepares the way for the second. When

    taken literally the text says, the daily is abolished "with the purpose" of

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    establishing in its place the "abomination that causes desolation". (Dan.

    12:11; 11:31)

    The "daily" was usurped in 508

    -- when the papacy received it's "army".

    The abomination was set up in 538-- when the papacy received it's primacy by law and the "abomination" was set

    under the mantle of Christianity.

    See The 1260, 1290 and 1335 day/year Prophecies

    What is the "abomination"?

    The abomination is in existence throughout the WHOLE vision. It is the

    "abomination that causes desolation". What brings it to special mention in

    Daniel is the fact that it incorporates itself under the banner of Christianity!

    The original word used in Daniel for

    Abomination is #8251 (shiqquwts)

    which means:

    detestable thing or idol, abominable thing, abomination, idol, detested thing

    We see the word used thus in scripture:

    1 Kings 11.5

    For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and

    after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.11.7

    Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of

    Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the

    abomination of the children of Ammon.

    Daniel uses the word three times:

    ...And on the wing ofabominations(shiqquwts) shall be one who makes

    desolate (shamem), Even until the consummation, (kalah) [full end]which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate(shamem)." (9:27)

    ...and shall take away the daily, and they shall place the abomination

    (shiqquwts) that maketh desolate (shamem). (11:31)...from the time the daily is taken away, and the abomination

    (shiqquwts) that maketh desolate (shamam) set up (12:11)

    Daniel 8 has a close parallel

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    How long the vision [concerning] the daily, and the transgression (pesha) ofdesolation(shamam), to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden

    under foot? (8:13)

    Now let's go to the new testament for some more clues.

    Jesus Himself links the Greek word for "abominations" #946 with the word

    "abominations" in Daniel.

    Matt.24.15-16

    When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of

    by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him

    understand ) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

    Luke 13.14

    But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by

    Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readethunderstand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

    And note Revelation's use of the word.

    Rev. 17.4-5

    And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked

    with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her

    hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

    And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON

    THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS

    OF THE EARTH.

    The abomination IS FALSE/PAGAN WORSHIP.

    It is better translated as the "desolating sacrilege".

    Since the battle between Christ's salvation plan and Satan's counterfeits has

    raged through all those years, we know the abomination was in existence

    throughout the WHOLE vision. It is the "abomination that causes desolation"

    even before Papal Rome emerges. What brings it to special mention in Daniel

    is the alarming fact that it incorporates itself under the banner of Christianity!

    The abomination is set up IN THE CHURCH!

    In another study we noted that the commencement of the 2300 year prophecy

    began in 457 BC when the degree was issued to restore and build Jerusalem at

    the command of Artexerxes (Dn. 9:25; Ezra 7)

    The temple was rebuilt in Jerusalem and the pre-cross daily sanctuary ministry

    which God had outlined was re-established.

    Before the cross, the gospel was to be understood through symbols and

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    ceremonies in the Jerusalem's temple. However, Paganism counterfeited the

    whole system and added diabolical practices to their system that were a

    constant allurement to Israel. Through heathenism, Satan had for ages turned

    men away from God; but he won his great triumph in perverting the faith of

    Israel. The very priests who ministered in the temple had lost sight of the

    significance of the service they performed. They no longer looked beyond the

    symbol but were using multiplied rituals as the means for salvation, just like the

    heathen counterfeit.

    Thus the "abomination of desolation" the "transgression of desolation" and the

    "desolating sacrilege" are all the same thing. It is a SINFUL FORM OF

    WORSHIP that would commit the sacrilege of trampling on and desolating the

    things and the people that rightfully belong to God.

    Now we might ask: How could the "harlot woman" --the symbol of a "woman"

    stands for Christ's church, a "harlot" means she has left Christ for another.How could this "harlot woman" contain ALL the abominations of the earth?

    It's also interesting that she is called "Babylon". Babylon Kings, served as both

    king and priest of the pagan Babylonian Mystery religion. As priests, they bore

    the title "Pontifex Maximus"(Bakers Pocket Dictionary of Religious Terms) or "Supreme

    Pontiff," meaning "supreme pathfinder" or "bridge maker," representing "the

    path or connection between this life and the next." Thus we see THE

    SUPREME HIGH PRIEST OF BABYLON is Pontifex Maximus.

    The pagan Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar was elected pontifex maximus in 63BC., picking up the title of SUPREME PRIEST of the pagan gods used in

    Babylon. Thus, the Roman emperors, like the preceding Babylonian emperors,

    now served as priests of Babylonian paganism, and bore the title Pontifex

    Maximus.

    In 376 A.D., Emperor Gratian became the first Roman emperor to refuse the

    idolatrous title of Pontifex Maximus and in 378 A.D., the Roman Catholic

    Bishop Damasus was elected Pontifex Maximus, becoming the official pagan

    Babylonian priest. Popery also accepted the polytheism of ancient Rome, in the

    gods and goddesses which, under the title of saints, fill up the calendar and

    crowd the temples of the Romanish Church. Here, then, all the old idolatries of

    paganism live over again.

    Example-- the idol--Jupiter is renamed Peter, and today is minus a toe because

    so many people have "worshiped" stooped down and kissed it.

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    The "abomination" was legally set up in the Christian church, in 538 A.D.

    when the Papacy was given the legal throne of Rome-- and lasted till 1798 A.D.

    when Napoleon legally removed their power.

    Prophecy says TRUE CHRISTIANITY [the woman] was in the wilderness

    during the 1260 year reign of the papacy.

    The Papacy IS ROME--

    The abomination that causes desolation is FALSE RELIGION standing in the

    holy place! For it obscures the TRUE.

    The true religion which is found in GOD alone, IN HIM alone is LIFE and

    HAPPINESS, true forgiveness, peace and victory over sin. That which sets

    itself IN PLACE OF and obscures Christ's ministry is truly the abomination

    that causes desolation.

    As we saw in the gender shifting of Daniel 8:10 and 11--

    First we saw the IT or pagan Imperial Rome growing and attacking some of the

    "host" [God's people]

    Then HE the new face in the horn (papal ROME) first moves himself "into the

    holy place" of Christ's daily ministry-- by declaring he is the "continuing"

    authority with the "keys" of heaven and hell supposedly given to Peter. He

    claims to the ROCK upon which the church is built, when in TRUTH CHRIST

    IS THE ROCK and CHRIST has the keys.He lifts off("ruwm") the daily ministry the "TAMID" from Christ and claims it

    for himself, but in actuality he is rejecting the TRUE ministry of Christ and

    setting it aside "(cuwr"), and receives his own army by which to force people tolook to him as the one to dispense Christ's "TAMID" blessings.

    But then we see the whole thing is called the "IT". This is not Christianity, this

    is the same pagan/false religion sacrilegious abomination that causes

    desolation. But now it has seated itself in the very temple of God, and is

    pretending to be God. (see 2 Thess. 2)

    The greatest triumph won by Satan was in perverting Christianity. He has set

    up his "abomination that causes desolation" under one who claims to be the

    Vicar of Christ Himself, and the keeper of the keys of eternal destinies.

    The deception is not yet complete--

    Now the religious world is being gathered into the ecumenical bundle over

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    which the Papacy demands primacy as it's divine right!

    The Bible says COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE for it is full of

    abominations. (See Rev. 18:2)

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