ISB ~ Matthew 24 v15

the desolating sacrilege:Recalls Dan 9:27, 11:31, and 12:11.

• In context, Daniel foresees the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple by the Gentile ruler Antiochus Epiphanes IV (167 B.C.). Antiochus burned Jerusalem, plundered the Temple of its sacred articles, and erected an idol to the Greek god Zeus within its precincts (1 Mac 1:31, 37, 54). Jesus draws from this episode and projects it forward to announce the Temple’s ultimate destruction and desecration by the Roman army in A.D. 70 (cf. Lk 21:20).