The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION 11
here saith shall come “in his own name”? He alludeth here to
Antichrist. 1
The Lord also spoke as follows to those who did not believe in Him:
“I have come in my Father's name, and ye have not received Me:
when another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive,”
calling Antichrist “the other,” because he is alienated from the
Lord. 2
That the Lord meant Antichrist when He spoke of the Abomination of
Desolation, will become quite obvious when we read the following
excerpts from the writings of the early Fathers:
This Jesus Christ who is gone up shall come again, not from earth
but from heaven: and I say, “not from earth,” because there are
many Antichrists to come at this time from earth. For already, as
thou hast seen, many have begun to say, I am the Christ: and the
abomination of desolation is yet to come, assuming to himself the
false title of Christ. 3
For at that time there shall be great trouble, such as has not been
from the foundation of the world, when some in one way, and others
in another, shall be sent through every city and country to destroy
the faithful; and the saints shall travel from the west to the east, and
shall be driven in persecution from the east to the south, while
others shall conceal themselves in the mountains and caves; and the
abomination shall war against them everywhere, and shall cut them
off by sea and by land by his decree, and shall endeavour by every
means to destroy them out of the world; and they shall not be able
any longer to sell their own property, nor to buy from strangers,
unless one keeps and carries with him the name of the beast, or
bears its mark upon his forehead. For then they shall all be driven
out from every place, and dragged from their own homes and haled
into prison, and punished with all manner of punishment, and cast
1 John Chrysostom: Homily on John V.
2 Irenaeus: Against heresies.
3 Cyril Of Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures.