What is the "disgusting thing standing in a place it should not be"?

TheloniousSphereMonk
TheloniousSphereMonk: The religion I was raised in (which I am no longer part of), the JW's teaches that it is the United Nations.

Just wonderin' what other Christian groups think it is.
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ImAMoron
ImAMoron: Have you tried an interlinear ?

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TheloniousSphereMonk
TheloniousSphereMonk: I do own a greek-english interlinear of the new testament but no, I didn't look at that verse.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: I'm not Christian but since no Christians responded in nearly a month, I'd be happy to make a suggestion. What about the Roman General Pompey at the siege of Jerusalem in 63 AD?

When the Romans controlled the Temple, Pompey and a bunch of his soldiers entered the Temple, the Holy of Holies. Many Jewish soldiers committed suicide, because they didn't want to see the profanation of the sanctuary - a place only the High Priest could enter.

I would say the disgusting thing is a sacrilegious act.

A few years later, the Romans not only burned the sanctuary, but the whole city was razed to the ground and its walls destroyed. The earlier abomination continued when the Romans built their own pagan temple, dedicated to Jupiter, on that same spot.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Of course, there are inner meanings as well.
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ghostgeek
ghostgeek: Daniel 11:31 Some of his soldiers will make the Temple ritually unclean. They will stop the daily sacrifices and set up The Awful Horror. [a]

[a] Daniel 9:27 A pagan image set up in the Jerusalem Temple by foreign conquerors (see 1 Macc 1.54-61).
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DIAMONDfire
DIAMONDfire: When I was reading the bible I came to the conclusion it was leaving no future to coming generations.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Try reading it from cover to cover.
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DIAMONDfire
DIAMONDfire: Actually that was the abomination of desolation, don't know if that's what's meant here. I haven't read it for a while. imaginative approach.
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