The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

THE UNHOLY TRINITY 53
The book of Maccabees tells us that Antiochus put an "abominable
idol of desolation" upon the altar of God and ordered people to
burn incense and offer sacrifices to it. Antiochus' persecution of the
children of God and his claims to be God make him a very close type
of Antichrist.
These are the five kings that were, that is, those who had already
gone by the time Revelation was written.
The "one that is," or the sixth head represents the Roman Empire
which reigned at the time of Revelation's writing, and which
banished St. John (to the Island of Patmos.) The Emperor Nero had
persecuted God's children and so became another type of Antichrist.
The seventh head, or the one that is to come, represents a future
politico-religious movement that was not yet present at the time St.
John wrote Revelation; but was to come five centuries later.
The beast, coming out of the sea, Antichrist, Abomination of
Desolation, will be a summation of all the characteristics of the
seven heads: a compilation of the tyranny and craftiness of all seven
prototypes, a perfected version after many trials. For with each of
the seven heads Satan gained increasingly more experience that he
will use in equipping the final Antichrist with. In other words, he
will include all the evil traits of the seven little or minor Antichrists
that preceded him.
And there is therefore in this beast, when he comes, a recapitulation
made of all sorts of iniquity and of every deceit, in order that all
apostate power, flowing into and being shut up in him, may be sent
into the furnace of fire. Fittingly, therefore, shall his name possess
the number six hundred and sixty-six, since he sums up in his own
person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous
to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels. For Noah was six
hundred years old when the deluge came upon the earth, sweeping
away the rebellious world, for the sake of that most infamous
generation which lived in the times of Noah. And [Antichrist] also
sums up every error of devised idols since the flood, together with