Great, then you do not know the order of events. Congratulations on acknowledging that point. You have proven you have no clue on what has been fulfilled and what has not.
Saying an account does not have to list events in chronological order is not the same thing as saying I don't know what order those events are in. The context, if properly recognized, will tell you what order the events are being mentioned in.
Only historical facts arranged by a legitimate historian is your only acceptable chronological order. No historian has pointed out an abomination of desolation nor the Second Coming of Jesus, so they are still future events. Josephus mentions people fleeing in 66AD when they see the Roman armies approaching. That is the only event mentioned fulfilled, besides the obvious destruction of a single building and some city walls. You do not even have proof every single stone was removed, because that does not even matter as obviously you do not even include buildings plural, even though it was part of the question.
Yes, it's acknowledge by history that Jewish believers fled Israel in the time the Roman armies began to invade and lay siege to Jerusalem. And Jesus said this would happen to "you," ie Jesus' disciples, in "this generation," ie while people who were alive in Jesus' time were still alive.
"and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple"
We know that the temple was completely razed when the Romans broke through the gates of Jerusalem. That fits the prophecy, both in Dan 9.26-27 and in Luke 21.
And that Roman Army was an alledged AoD from 63BC until 135AD. If you claim the Roman Army, it has to be the whole Roman occupation. You cannot single out one single Roman Army during one single year. You want the Roman Army to be the AOD. You also have to state it was the AoD during the whole Roman occupation. After 135AD not much was left of Hebrew identity in the area. There was nothing left to desecrate. Jerusalem was just another pagan center of Roman conquest.
The "ruler to come" in Dan 9.26 is generic, and may apply to any number of Roman rulers who assisted in the destruction of Jerusalem. It included Cestius Gallus, as well as Titus.
In the same way, the AoD included the entire period from 66 to 70 AD. The devastation of Jerusalem continued, as you said, in 135 AD. And that's because Jesus said Israel's period of desolation would continue from 70 AD to the end of the age.
Not even Antiochus Epiphanes and his army was declared the AoD.
I don't agree. I would assume that the AoD fit both Antiochus 4 and the Roman generals who laid siege to Jerusalem. Both had armies. Both killed masses of Jews. Both presented an idolatrous presence in the temple, not simply as an occupying force, but as a hostile force attempting to destroy what the Jews viewed as orthodox worship. Antiochus tried to enforce Hellenism on the orthodox Jews. The Romans simply destroyed all temple worship under the Law by destroying the temple.
It was the act in the temple itself that was the AoD. If you actually read Josephus, the Jews already complained Pilate was setting up the AoD with his Roman Army standards.
Yes, the eagle standards represented, symbolically, the pagan desecration of the temple area. Their eagles were pagan gods. Their presence as an occupying force was one thing. But coming as a bird of prey was another thing entirely! And that is precisely how Jesus described it, as birds of prey gathering for a feast, or to a "corpse."
Pilate complied and removed them. It is not the point about the Army itself. It is the point, there was no longer a temple to even set up an AoD. Proximity of an army does not count.
I believe the opposite to be true. A "desolation" took place in a different ways in different times. Antiochus committed sacrilege in one way, offering pig sacrifices and setting up idols. And the Romans committed sacrilege a different way, but completely eliminating the possibility of all sacrifices and offerings at the temple.
Both were "abominations" because they were pagan armies come to do harm to Jewish worship in Jerusalem--not strictly an occupying force. Both were desolaters because they were armies who destroyed Jews with their military forces, both priests and people.
That was ongoing for almost 200 years. The point is how such an AoD is defined. Since you now base your view on strict historical accounts by a legitimate historian, Josephus does not see things the same way you do.
A lot of scholars have differed on what the AoD specifically is. I believe that's because there is confusion over the fact there are 2 very different AoDs mentioned in Daniel. Dan 9 refers to the Roman AoD, and Dan 8, 11, and 12.11 refer to the Antiochus AoD.
To confuse the different things they did causes us to confuse the definition of what an AoD is. It is not strictly offering idols and corrupt sacrifices in the temple. Rather, it is a hostile pagan presence of an Army that desolates, or destroys, Israel, the people of God. They utterly destroy Israel's form of worship under the Law, which today we understand is irrelevant regardless.
