sanctuary of strength

Jesus Christ Is Lord!
2 September 2010

I want to point you to the understanding of what the “abomination of desolation” is.

We are told with a parenthetical statement to understand, “(whosever readeth, let him understand).”

When you go to Daniel 11:31 and look at the full context of the verse what we see is that it states that antichrists will pollute the sanctuary of strength and remove the continuity, the perpetual, and these are the abominations that bring desolation.

This tells us that the wings (as in Daniel 9:27) of that abomination are polluting the sanctuary of strength the taking away the perpetual. Perpetual is tamiyd in the Hebrew and it is describing the same things as in 2 Thessalonians 2, “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped.”

Strength as in “sanctuary of strength” is the key to understand this. It is the same Hebrew word that is translated forces in Daniel 11:38, fortress in 11:7 & 10, strength in 11:31& Isaiah 23:4, 25:4 and 30:2 & 3.

Psalms and Proverbs define this word as strength that comes from God. It is something good when coming from the LORD but not good when deriving from or thought to be from some other source.

It is strong Isaiah 23:11 and Nahum 1:7.

It is rock in Judges 6:26.

All of these will add full context to what is being said, but the parenthetical utterance from Jeremiah 16:19 where this word is translated fortress gives the full.

19(O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.)
20Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.

Psalms 28:8, 31:4, 37:39, 43:2, 52:7, 60:7, 108:8, Proverbs 10: 29

In the Name of
Jesus Christ My Lord
Thank You My Father