The Seven Last Years

The Seven Last Years

Lesson #11 – Abomination and the Mark

Instructions:

1.  Read through the outline below.

2.  Where it says Read, go to your Bible and read the scripture indicated.

3.  Download and study the Handout as indicated.

4.  When you’re finished, answer the questions at the end of the lesson.

1.  There are a number of inter-related and intertwined events

2.  That happen in the “midst of the week” or middle of the Tribulation

3.  The abomination of desolation is one of them

A.  Read: Daniel 12:11 – “From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (1290 days)”

1)  The daily sacrifice being taken away

2)  And the abomination of desolation being set up

3)  Will take place about 1290 days before the end

4)  This is 3½ years plus 3½ months

4.  The abomination of desolation, the compassing of Jerusalem with armies,

and the Mark of the Beast

5.  Are three components of basically the same event

6.  All three refer to the rise of the Antichrist to power

7.  They all describe something he does to try to control the world

A.  The Mark of the Beast is economic

B.  The compassing of Jerusalem with armies is political

C.  And the abomination of desolation is the religious or spiritual component

8.  I believe the abomination of desolation and the Mark of the Beast

9.  Are basically one and the same thing

10.  Here’s why:

A.  Daniel and John the Revelator both speak of the Antichrist

B.  But they use different terms to describe the events surrounding is time on earth

C.  Daniel speaks of the abomination; but never of the Mark of the Beast

D.  John speaks of the Mark of the Beast; but never the abomination of desolation

E.  However, from the way they use the terms,

F.  It’s clear they are speaking of the same event

Download and study Handout: “Abomination & the Mark”

1)  Daniel says the Antichrist will:

a.  Take power and set himself up as God (Daniel 11:36)

b.  Make war with the saints (Daniel 7:21), and

c.  Set up the abomination of desolation (Daniel 11:31)

2)  In the Book of Revelation, we’re told the Antichrist will:

a.  Take power and set himself up as God (Revelation 13:5-6)

b.  Make war with the saints (Revelation 13:7), and

c.  Set up the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:16)

11.  Throughout the ministry of Jesus on earth

12.  His teaching always emphasized the spiritual or religious aspect of things

13.  He refers to the rise of the Antichrist as “the abomination of desolation”

14.  Which emphasizes the religious aspect of that rise to power

15.  Read: Matthew 24:15 – “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)”

The Holy Place

1.  Many Bible teachers say the holy place to which Jesus referred

2.  Is the Jewish temple in Jerusalem

A.  And they say that temple will be rebuilt at some point in time

B.  For the Antichrist to enter into and demand worship

C.  They say that will be the abomination of desolation

3.  They use the words of Paul to make their case

4.  Paul says that when the Antichrist is revealed, he will:

5.  Read: II Thessalonians 2:4 – “Opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God; or that is worshipped; So that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God”

6.  But, I believe Jesus is speaking in spiritual terms

A.  That “holy place” – the “temple of God”

B.  Is the human body or soul – and that’s where the Antichrist spirit will stand

C.  Not a physical temple in Jerusalem

D.  Read: Acts 17:24 – “God that made this world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands”

E.  Read: I Corinthians 3:16-17 – “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are”

F.  Read: I Corinthians 6:19 – “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you; Which ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?”

G.  Jesus taught the same thing:

H.  Read: John 2:19-21 – “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body”

7.  Those who take the Mark of the Beast

A.  Will allow the abomination of desolation

B.  To stand in their holy temple – their body – their soul

C.  In the place that was meant for the Holy Ghost

D.  In that sense, the abomination of desolation is a religious event

E.  Taking the Mark will empty out your soul – and make it void

F.  It will truly be a “land of desolation” in the End Time

G.  One last scripture:

H.  Read: Mark 13:14 – “When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him that readeth understand”

1)  It “ought not” be in the human body or soul

2)  Because that’s the place meant for the Holy Spirit

Questions

1.  According to Daniel 12:11, how many days will there be after the “abomination that maketh desolate” is set up?

2.  According to this lesson, during what part of the Tribulation will the “abomination of desolation” take place?

3.  According to the Handout “Abomination & the Mark,” what is the relationship between the “abomination of desolation” and the Mark of the Beast?

4.  According to II Thessalonians 2:4, where will the Antichrist (Man of Sin) sit?

5.  According to Acts 17:24, I Corinthians 3:16-17, I Corinthians 6:19 and John 2:19-21, what is the “temple of God” or the “temple of the Holy Ghost”?

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