The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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DAY OF THE LORD
24:22) The second figure, “thousand three hundred and five and thirty
days” refers to time of the only event that is expected to happen after
the end of the Tribulation, the second coming of Christ, the day of the
Lord, as we are told in Matthew 24:29-30:
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then
shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in
the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
From this we can assume that the forty-five days (1335-1290) is the
period between the end of Antichrist, which we narrated in the previous
chapter and the second coming of Christ, also referred to as “the day
of the Lord.”
Of course the figure 45 is also symbolic for no one is supposed to
know the time of the second coming of the Lord which will be “as a
thief in the night.” (I Thes 5:2, II Pet 3:10, Rev 16:15) All we can say
is that it probably refers to a two digit number of days, a short time.
What will happen during this period, known figuratively as the forty
five days? A lot! Let us find out what the Bible tells us concerning
them.
If we read Matthew 24 carefully, we can find out these events that
will follow one another. Verses 1-14 tell us of the “beginning of
sorrows” or the signs that will happen before Antichrist is revealed:
wars, pestilences, earthquakes and persecutions. Then in Matthew
24:15-18, we are told about Antichrist (Abomination of Desolation)
declaring himself as god and the urgency by which we should flee him,
“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:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains.
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out
of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his
clothes.” This urgency is explained later, since when this happens, the
great tribulation will start and the Church will take flight, being carried
away into the wilderness by the wings of the great eagle. (Rev 12), “For
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days