tailgator
Well-Known Member
It doesn't matter how you want to look at it.Jesus is not the abomination that causes desolation .Yes, but I believe it might be the way you are looking at this.... Remember, Jesus went willingly to the cross and this was God's plan for Him. There are at least two ways to look at this:
1) From the literal view - where His people rejected and crucified their Messiah. There could NOT be a greater crime / transgression man could ever make in this world - to crucity God!!
2) From a theologival view - God had given Moses the 10 commandments as well as all the Levitical ceremonies on the top of Mt. Sinai. This inculded all the rituals, ceremonies, etc., necessary to honor the Sabbatical cylces, the Sprinng feast days and the Fall feast days. But we are told they ALL are a type and shadow of the coming Messiah. When He comes, He will fulfill the Passover Lamb, He will be our High Priest, He will be our Temple and our Sanctuary. After His time on earth, He would fulfill all of the Spring ceremoines and sent His Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
This would completely eliminnate any further need for these ceremonies or the physcial structures - the Temple, the Sanctuary, etc. They have fulfilled their God give mission.
But it is important to understand that Jesus would do exactly what He was asked of by His Father, that not only meant going to the cross but also to honor every law given in Leviticus regarding those same ceremonies. Thus, if you look in Leviticus, you will find that there are REQnUIRED rules to follow for each of those elements. Meaning, that each must be declared "clean" and pure before they can be found within those ceremonies. The priest must be declared clean, the animals must be decleare "clean" without blemish, the Temple must declared "clean." If you look in Leviticus, if these things are not clean or pure in the eyes of God, they are an "abomination." Now, we all agree that Jesus never sinned and could not or never be declared "unclean or impure" however, when He willingly took on the sin of the world on the cross, He would now be in His Father's eyes, an unclean or impure thing. Thus, Jesus would honor to His death all the laws within Leviticus regarding the Passover ceremonies...
So, you might want to think about this....
Even when Jesus was crucified,there was no need to flee to the mountains .In fact Jesus told his disciples to stay in Jerusalem .
Mathew 24
15 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:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
None of Jesus followers fled to the mountains.They all stayed in Jerusalem.