Past the Babylonian stories from Daniel 1-6, readers run into an interesting six chapters at the tail end of Daniel. These prophecies appear to affect Israel in the near future, but also, they seem to ...

Picking up on James Jordan’s treatment of this theme. The sequence is this: A Gentile ruler attacks the covenant, but does it by supporting apostate Jews. The apostate Jews defile the sanctuary and ...

This is the fifth post in a series titled: Earthquakes… Signs of the Times? I invite you to read the rest of the series here to catch up (the first post would be extremely helpful)… A popular phrase ...

“When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains …” (Mk. 13:14; Mt. 24:15; Lk. 21:20) Often when I ...

With wartime rhetoric adopting a deeply eschatological colour, the "abomination of desolation" has resurfaced to evoke the prophesied ruin of the Temple. Applying the gravity of this phrase to the ...