28 the Abomination of Desolation

Jesus warns the Jewish dwellers in Judea that when they see the "Abomination of Desolation" - a desecrating idol installed in the Temple's inner room the Holy of Holies of the Temple - to flee to the mountains. The remnant of Israel will find refuge there for three and a half years while God protects them and provides for them (Matthew 24:22, 24, 31). This passage is saying that the moment the Jewish Remnant, the elect sees the event of the abomination of desolation then they are to flee to the Judean hills. The Beast (antichrist) and the False Prophet will be setting up the abomination of desolation in the rebuilt Jewish Temple, In the second stage of the Abomination of Desolation, the False Prophet (Beast #2) will be given authority to perform many signs and wonders (v. 13), deceiving mankind in order to cause them to worship the Antichrist (v. 12). These same ideas were evident in II Thessalonians 2:8-12, and both help clarify what the Abomination of Desolation involves. The great deception is climaxed when the image of the Antichrist becomes alive and men are called upon to worship the image (vv.14-15). So, the deification of the Antichrist continues. The image will be set up in the Holy of Holies to carry on the Abomination of Desolation. Jerusalem will become the religious capital of the Antichrist, and the Temple will be the center of the worship of the Antichrist where the living image will be standing. So, while the Antichrist will be deposed of after 1,260 days, the image will remain in the Temple for another thirty days beyond that. It too will then be disposed of.

Thus, the two stages of the Abomination of Desolation, lasting a total of 1, 290 days