Questions & Answers
Questions 145 (COD Page 616)
Brother Branham, in Daniel the 11th chapter, the 31st verse, teaches of the day...taking away of the daily sacrifice, and the abomination that maketh desolation. Would you please explain what these are?
108 Oh, this person has signed their name to this one. That is my subject on next Sunday, and that comes in with the–with The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel. But...And I might just say this to you, my most precious brother that signed this here, which is a very dear friend to all of us. Yes, “the abomination that maketh desolation,” Jesus, in Matthew 24, spoke of it. The abomination (means filthiness) that maketh desolation, the abomination was the Moslem Mosque of Omar that was built on the temple grounds where the Holy Place stood.
109 In A.D. 96, Titus came in and captured Jerusalem and burnt the temple, and they built the Mosque of Omar (the Mohammedan religion) right on the temple grounds, and still stands there to this day. And it will stand there until God returns to the Jews again. “And the abomination (that is the Mosque of Omar) that maketh desolation of the Holy Place,” standing in the Holy Place, see.
110 Jesus referred to it, says, and in parenthesis, “(let he that readeth understand).” See? Therefore, He’s give so many days from that time until the...after the Prince and so many days, and so forth, which we get into next Sunday. And I’ll try to, the best of my knowledge, to get that in for you for next Sunday. But that abomination is the Mosque of Omar that took the place of the temple, that, “When you see the abomination that maketh desolation, spoken of, of the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place.” See, standing where the temple stood (the Holy Place), the Mosque of Omar.