All Bible verses are taken from the King James Version 1611/1769 unless otherwise indicated.
Daniel 12:11-12.
From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days, (New International Version 1984).
There are no differences in the text in Daniel 11:31 and Daniel 12:11, both mention the daily sacrifice and the abomination that causes desolation. But here too in Daniel 12:11-12 we get additional information, and as we saw in Daniel 8:13-14, it concerns a time aspect. It is a two-part information. First it is mentioned in verse 11: 1,290 days, and then it is said in verse 12: Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
Here the daily sacrifice and the abomination that causes desolation are strongly linked to two time periods, which are 1290 years and 1335 years respectively. Now we have a time frame, where both time periods have the same starting time, and then it is important to find out when the starting time is and why those who wait and reach the 1,335 days that are mentioned in a specific form are blessed.
The prophecies in Daniel 8; 11 and 12 all contain time prophecies that point to the end times. As we saw under Daniel 8:13, it is about the year/day principle, where one day is a literal year. Daniel 8:13 tells of a period of 2300 years, while Daniel 12:11 tells of 1290 years and Daniel 12:12 tells us of 1335 years.
Since the 2300 years in Daniel 8 is the longest time-prophecy, this time prophecy defines prophetic time, and all time-prophecies must be within the framework that Daniel 8:13 gives. This prophecy is part of Daniel’s second great vision that begins with Medo-Persia, and so far sets an approximate starting time for the prophecy. The prophecy was given in the year 547 BC. while Babylon still existed, but it applies from a specific year within the Medo-Persian dominion, between 539 and 331 BC. The starting point could therefore be any year within the 208 years that Medo-Persia existed. But God, who is a God of order, does not allow coincidences to occur in prophecies, so we must therefore look for an exact starting point.
We want to know when things begin and end, because it can be of crucial importance to us in our Christian life today. Because if we believe that what we are waiting for lies far into the future, this can affect the preparations we need to make to be ready when Jesus returns.
Daniel did not fully understand time, only that the time prophecy embraced a continuous period of 2300 years. He did not understand when it began, and not when it would end. Nor will we be able to calculate the beginning or end of this time prophecy without help. To help Daniel, and us, to understand, Daniel was given a new time prophecy that told when Jesus would appear as the Messiah and begin his mission and when He would die on the cross. This year we are certain of, and as an added aid, the angel in Daniel 9:25 says the following: Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks … …
Jesus was born in the fall of 3 BC and came forth as the Messiah on the day he turned 30. No one could be a “teacher” or “master” until they were 30 years old at that time. Jesus was baptized in the fall of 27, and this was the beginning of the last week of years in Daniel 9. The 69 weeks from the decree ended with Jesus’ baptism in 27, and if we take 69 weeks of years, which is the same as 483 years, we arrive at the year 457 BC (remember that year zero does not exist, so we must add a year to the calculation). The book of Ezra chapter 6 also confirms this year.
Since the 70 weeks of year which equals 470 years, and the 2300 years have the same starting time, the prophecy of the 490 years ends in the fall of 34 C.E., when Stephen was stoned, but the most important thing for us in this context is when the 2300 years end. This prophecy has great significance for how we are to understand the prophecies of the 1290 and 1335 years. The prophecy of the 2300 years ended in the fall, specifically on October 22, 1844.
How are we to understand the prophecies of the 1290 and 1335 days according to the year/day principle.
Regarding the 1290 and 1335 years, the prophecy says that these two prophecies will begin to run from the time the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate is set up. This must be within the time period of the 2300 years in Daniel 8:13. Since the entire 12th chapter of the book of Daniel deals with the end times in an extended sense, these two prophecies must be found towards the end of the 2300 years.
When the Advent movement that was raised up by God in the first half of the 19th century had its first great period, we had come to 1843. It was this year and the following year that the movement grew the most. Then it says in Daniel 12:12 that those who reach the 1335 days mentioned in specific form, should be blessed. How blessed do you think they were when they found out that Jesus would return at that time? That they believed that Jesus’ return could be dated to first 1843 and then to 1844 was due to the fact that all Christians believed the earth was the sanctuary that would be cleansed with fire at Jesus’ return. When it says that the sanctuary would be cleansed at the end of the 2300 years, this was the reason for the mistake. The disappointment that occurred is also prophesied in Revelation chapter 10, which deals precisely with the emergence of the Advent movement.
If we take the year 1843 and subtract 1335 years, we arrive at the year 508. It was in this year, 508, that the Roman bishop was well established in Rome. The Church had taken over the emperor’s throne when Romulus Augustus was deposed, and the bishop took the opportunity to take full control of the political vacuum that arose when the emperor was overthrown from the pinnacle of power. The papacy now set up the abomination that maketh desolate, in order to remove the daily sacrifice.
In the next 30 years, he, the bishop/pope, with the help of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I the Great, destroyed the last two of the three tribes that the prophecy tells us about: the Vandals 534, the Ostrogoths 538. The Herules were exterminated already in 493.
What was, and what is, the daily sacrifice?
A) In Old Testament times, this was the blood of sheep, goats, and calves. Many choose to interpret it as meaning that when Antiochus IV Epiphanes ravaged the Jews in 165 BC, he set up the abomination that maketh desolate by sacrificing pigs in the temple in Jerusalem. Those who claim that this is the fulfillment of Daniel 12:11 are not in harmony with the prophecies as a whole.
When they interpret Daniel 12:11 in this way, they simply fail to take into account the prophecies that Jesus himself makes in Matthew 24:15, which is called the Great Tribulation: 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. As we see from Matthew 24:15, Jesus is referring to an event that is in the future from Jesus’ time. Antiochus IV Epiphanes died in 163 BC, almost 200 years before Jesus made this prophecy.
B) In New Testament times, animal sacrifices have been abolished through Jesus’ substitutionary sacrificial death on the cross. Our daily sacrifice today is our daily prayers that should be addressed to God the Father in the name of Jesus. Furthermore, we should also ask God for forgiveness for our sins, since only God can forgive our sins. The fact that our prayers are our daily sacrifice can be read from Revelation 8:3-4: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
In Old Testament times, the sacrificial animals were placed on the altar of burnt offering, and twice every day a lamb without blemish was offered, one in the morning and one in the evening (see Exodus 29:38 and following). In New Testament times we read that incense, together with the prayers of the saints, was to be placed on the golden altar.
As always there is controversy about how to interpret words and expressions, so here too. The word from which the daily sacrifice in Daniel 8:11; 8:12; 8:13; 11:31; 12:11, is translated is the Hebrew tamid (taw-meed’). There are many interpretations of what tamid is, but there are three interpretations that have gained more support than the others. These are: 1) Tamid refers to the daily sacrifice in the temple in Jerusalem. 2) Tamid refers to paganism (Daniel 11:31; 12:11; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14) the abomination of desolation. 3)Tamid refers to Jesus’ high priestly ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, and that the abolition of the «daily sacrifice» (tamid) corresponds to the papal vicarious system imposed on the members of the church at the expense of the mediatorial ministry of Jesus Christ. It is relatively clear that it is the third alternative that harmonizes with history.
We also know that this power, which fulfills all the signs of the Antichrist, neither wants us to pray to God daily, nor to ask God for forgiveness for our sins, nor to have Jesus Christ as our only mediator. Therefore, this power has created a system of sub-gods that we can call them, the so-called holy men and women. Even if one initially believes and says that one prays to the one true God, one prays through (read: to) one of these mediators, or saints – be it St. Olav, St. Mark or this power’s heavenly queen and mediator Mary, the mother of Jesus.
No matter which of these saints one prays to, the prayers do not reach where they are supposed to. It is an illusion to believe that they do, because Jesus said the following when Thomas did not know the way to go: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me, John 14:6.
The forerunner of this power was Babel or Babylon, and Babylon had many gods, and these were divided into 1) primordial beings or beings who have been from eternity, 2) seven main gods, 3) other important gods, 4) minor gods, 5) semi-gods and heroes, and finally 6) spirits and monsters.
These were:
1) Abzu and Tiamat, Lahmu and Lahamu, Anshar and Kishar, Mummu
2) Anu, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Inanna/Ishtar, Nanna/Sin, Utu/Shamash
3) Adad, Dumuzid, Enkimdu, Ereshkigal, Kingu, Geshtinanna, Lahar, Marduk, Nergal, Ninurta
4) Anunnaki, Asaruludu, Ashnan, Bel, Enbilulu, Isimud, Lahar, Mami/Nintu, Mamitu, Nabu, Namtar, Nanshe, Nidaba, Ningal, Ninkasi, Ninlil, Ninshubur, Ninsun, Nuska, Sarpanit, Uttu, Yahweh
5) Adapa, Enkidu, Enmerkar, Gilgamesh, Lugalbanda, Shamhat, Siduri, Atra-Hasis, Apkallu
6) Utukku, Lamassu/Shedu, Asakku, Edimmu, Siris, Anzû, Humbaba, Asag, Hanbi, Kur, Lamashtu, Pazuzu, Rabisu
In addition to these, gods such as Baal, Astarte and Dagon were worshiped in Babylon. What is particularly interesting is that Yahweh is listed under 4) minor Babylonian gods!
If we follow history from Babylon to the present day, we know that the following empires that conquered their predecessors also took with them the gods of the occupied empire, and in this way the pagan gods and the various philosophical systems accumulated as the empires came and went, from Babylon through Medo-Persia and Greece and down to the Roman Empire. Today we find all the pagan gods that the Roman Empire absorbed when they conquered Greece, in addition to the constant addition of new minor gods, demigods and heroes in the form of saints. There are now over 11,600 in this class.
The following is taken from http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/helgener
There are so many named saints and blessed in the Church that it will take a long time before this overview is even remotely complete. Nevertheless, there are (at the end of February 2011) just under 7,500 biographies in the overview, for just over 11,600 individuals and groups of martyrs. These are sorted alphabetically and by memorial day.
I mention this to show how today’s Babylon continues to seduce God’s people, for this has a direct bearing on the daily sacrifice that has been taken away and the abomination of desolation. The Catholic Church has appointed, and continues to appoint, saints for this and that.
Every profession has its patron saint, and Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of athletes, archers, crusaders, soldiers and police, doctors, war invalids, ironmongers, potters, pewterers, stonemasons, clothmakers, gardeners, tanners; of weak and sickly children and the dying; of wells; against plague and animal diseases; against enemies of religion. This patron saint is celebrated together with Saint Pope Fabian. Saint Arnulf of Soissons is one of many patron saints of brewers. There are also patron saints of quite trivial matters such as falling in love, and Saint Valentine of Rome is the patron saint of lovers. There is no difference between these saints and the many gods of Babylon.
The Babylonian gods were supposed to protect people from various things, just as today’s Roman Catholic gods, or saints, do. So, when we celebrate Valentine’s Day, or Saint Valentine’s Day, we are actually worshipping one of the many saints of the Catholic Church, and in doing so we are committing fornication and being unfaithful to God. If you want to have a good harvest, fall in love, brew good beer or whatever it may be, you just have to pray to one of the many thousands of lesser gods or demigods, the so-called saints at your disposal.
It certainly sounds tempting for an athlete to pray to Saint Sebastian before a sports competition in order to achieve victory … … something we see athletes around the world doing more and more often. When they enter the sports field, we see that many of them cross themselves, kiss their fingers, touch the grass and look up to the sky and say a prayer – probably to Saint Sebastian. But no matter whether they lose or win, these people are seduced by the intoxicating wine of modern-day Babylon.
Why is the abomination and the transgression destructive? The abomination; Daniel 11:31 and 12:11-12.
But why the year 508? It simply has to do with confession. The confession, or the Sacrament of penance and atonement, is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, in which the believer achieves absolution for sins committed against God and his neighbour … //… and where they are reunited with the church after confession. This is the true abomination. The Catholic Church has a threefold development of this sacrament.
1) from the time of the apostles until the early 6th century – the early confession.
2)from the early 6th century, the year 508, to the 12th century – forced confession (tariff penance)
3) from the 12th century onwards – individual confession
In this way, the continuo sacrifice was taken away when the abomination that maketh desolate was set up. From the early 6th century, specifically 508, it became mandatory to go to confession for church members. Those who did not go regularly and confessed their sins to the priest were excommunicated from the church community (the holy community as the catholic church itself calls it). It is the forced confession which is the abomination that maketh desolate and which take away the continuo sacrifice.
There is a list of sins from the early 6th century that shows which sins sinners had to confess to the priest, and these were/are: murder, idolatry, sorcery, magic, greed, theft, envy, jealousy, vanity, hatred, lies, false testimony, perjury, hypocrisy, slander, defiance, anger, rebellion, bad mood, gossip, insults, unclean language, injustice, betrayal, pride, boasting, arrogance, resentment, madness, drunkenness, lack of moderation, impurity, perversity, infidelity, the practice of homosexuality, paedophilia, sexual desire and much, much more. From the time the bishop of Rome was in the process of establishing himself fully in the year 508 and introducing forced/compulsory confession, until this power loses its power when the pope was thrown into prison in the year 1798, it is 1290 years.
The 1335 days.
Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days, Daniel 12:12.
Early in the 1800s, W. Miller began to preach the second coming of Jesus, because Miller had understood it to mean that Jesus would return in the fall of 1843. As the time approached for Jesus’ supposed return, the preaching was truly given with anointing and zeal, and it is this time that the prophecy of the 1335 days points to and says that he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days shall be blessed. It is implicit in Daniel 12:12 that the starting time for these days is the same as for the 1290 days,
From 508 when the daily sacrifice was abolished and until the preaching of the end-time message, the three angels’ messages and Jesus’ soon return in 1843 occurred with full force, there are 1335 years. That those who reach 1335 days are blessed is connected with what is written in Revelation chapter 10, which is a prophecy about the emergence of the Advent movement, and the mission that was given to God’s end-time church through John. When Miller discovered this prophecy, he realized that there was only a short time left, and he went out and preached the Lord’s return with anointing and zeal, and this is described as the book being sweet as honey in the mouth, but Jesus did not come at the time they first believed in 1843. They checked the prophecies and found an error. They had counted with year zero. Year zero does not exist, and Jesus’ return was eventually set for the fall of 1844, specifically October 22nd.
But Christ did not come on this day either and, this triggered a great sorrow that has been called “the great disappointment.” It gave a bitter pain in the stomach. But the Advent movement survived the great disappointment, and our pioneers found their way back to the old biblical truths that we must proclaim to the whole world – which is contained in the expression … Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings, (Revelation 10:11).
It is worth noting that the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days are mentioned in a determined form. I believe, as I said, that there are no coincidences in the Bible, and that this is an indication that something special will happen 1335 years after the bishop of Rome has set up the abomination that maketh desolation, which is forced confession, because those who wait and reach the end of this time are blessed.
We have two specific time prophecies that overlap in Daniel 12:
1290 days: From the time the bishop of Rome set up the abomination that maketh desolate and the daily sacrifice was abolished in 508 AD until the pope was thrown into prison and the persecution of Christians by the papacy temporarily stopped in 1798, there are 1290 years.
1335 days: From the time the bishop of Rome set up the abomination that maketh desolate and the daily sacrifice was abolished in 508 AD until the mid-rise of the Advent movement and the first preaching of the end-time message and the three angels’ messages, there are 1335 years.
A legitimate question then arises. Why does God make a distinction between these two time-references, and why are those who reach 1335 days blessed, while there is no mention of the 1290 days?
I believe the answer to this lies in how we understand these two prophecies. There are probably many who have studied Daniel 12:11-12 and come to roughly the same conclusion. Something will happen both before and after the 1290 days, but they will not accept that God will raise up a prophetic movement at the end of the 1335 days. Therefore, those who helped to found the Advent movement are blessed, because they rediscovered the old truths that the mother church has tried to destroy. It is only when they gain this understanding of the prophecies, and at the same time participate in this work that is imposed on them by God – prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings – that leads them to this blessedness. Those who do not have this understanding cannot possibly experience the same joy and happiness (blessing) as those who actually find this understanding.
Summary; the desolating abomination.
When Jesus was first on earth, He said the following about how we can attain salvation: I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture, (John 10:9) … // … I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me, (John 14:6).
God has arranged everything for us, so we don’t have to worry about where to go or who to turn to regarding the issue of salvation. But the Catholic Church will not be part of that. In this sense, the Catholic Church is carrying on the same thoughts that Nimrod did just after the great flood. When the waters had receded, God said that the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, (Genesis 9:15), but Nimrod said let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches all the way to heaven. It was obvious that they would find a way to save themselves during the next great flood. We must also remember that God told people to settle all over the earth, and not to settle in cities. Nimrod also opposed this, and he founded no less than 7 cities, and we read in Genesis 10:10-11: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah.
In other words, Nimrod carried on the opposition to God after the great flood. This opposition to God has been found among the pagan religions ever since, and when we came to the time after the crucifixion and the establishment of the Christian church, Satan was able to infiltrate the church by using Emperor Constantine who made Christianity one of the many state religions of the Roman Empire. This led to the door being opened to the pagan religions, and in less than two hundred years the church had become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,(See Revelation 18:2).
The Catholic Church, as we have seen, carries on its opposition to God, and as we have seen, the Catholic Church set up the abomination that maketh desolate and in that way took away the daily sacrifice. Just as Nimrod shows the Catholic Church (NOT the individual members and this is important to emphasize) contempt for God, God’s word, God’s law and God’s commandments. They have carried on a method of saving themselves. The first to try this was Cain. As a sin offering, he brought a sacrifice of what he himself had cultivated. He did this despite the fact that he knew that God had shown his parents Adam and Eve that it should be a lamb without spot or blemish. Adam and Eve passed this on to all their children and clearly explained what the sin offering they were to offer was, as the sacrifice they were to offer was an image that pointed forward to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who would give his life for the salvation of mankind.
We are to offer our daily sacrifice to God. This does not mean that we should offer animal sacrifices in our time, for this sacrificial service ceased when the Lamb of God was slain, which is the same as Jesus dying on the cross. Our daily sacrifices after the cross are the prayers we pray directly to God in the name of Jesus, because there is only one mediator between God and men, or as Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:5: For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
It is therefore an abomination in the sight of God for a church to require its members to go to their local priest, and make him a mediator, to confess their sins to him in order to receive forgiveness for their sins through the instructions the priest gives them, whether it is to say certain prayers a certain number of times or to go on a pilgrimage. It is an illusion to believe that this brings salvation to man. Because as I said, it is Jesus who is the door to life – eternal life – and no one comes to God the Father except through Jesus Christ and His vicarious death on the cross.
The abomination that causes desolation, part 2.