The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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The Book of Revelation is like a big jig-saw puzzle, with the pieces
scattered all over the place. It is up to the reader to gather the pieces,
and find out where they fit. After all the pieces are put together in the
right place, the picture will become clear. If even a few pieces are
missing or are misplaced, the picture will not be clear and meaningful.
Prophecies are not put in their chronological order, and the challenge
is to place them correctly. For example, Revelation 6:12-17 reads as
follows:
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was
a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto
the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when
it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out
of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and
the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is
come; and who shall be able to stand?
If we examine this superficially, we might think that the end of the
world and the second coming of the Lord will happen after the sixth
seal! Yet, as we read on, we discover that there is a seventh seal, which
in turn leads to another set of seven plagues, the seven trumpets. As we
go through the seven trumpets and after the sixth trumpet, we read
(Rev 10:5-7):
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth
lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever
and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and
the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things
which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the
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Published: September, 2002